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Hello, I'm Stewart Fleming. I run Famous Fox Publishing, a small independent publisher of books on biblical exegesis from a conservative Evangelical standpoint which I hope will be interesting and helpful to readers from other traditions and backgrounds also.

• Mustard Seed Faith – is it Big Faith or Little Faith?

  By stewartfleming on November 12, 2019 • ( 0 )

    In Matthew 17:20 and Luke 17:6 Jesus refers to “faith as a grain of mustard” – or ” faith as a mustard seed” and in both cases, Jesus describes great results which follow on from such faith.  Most commentators… Read More ›

• The Prophetic Foreknowledge of the Ascension of Elijah

  By stewartfleming on November 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  We read the exciting and dramatic account of Elijah’s ascent to heaven  in 2 Kings 2. At the very start of that narrative, we, as readers, are told that Yahweh was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a… Read More ›

• “Only-begotten Son” or “Only-begotten God” in John 1:18? – Why I Think the Received Text is Right!

  By stewartfleming on October 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In the closing verse  of the Prologue to John’s Gospel (John 1:18) we read that Jesus Christ is the “only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father” according to the Received Text (the Textus Receptus). However, the Nestle-Aland… Read More ›

• Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit: an Intertextual Reading of Mark 9:14-29 and the Golden Calf Incident in Exodus Ch. 32

  By stewartfleming on June 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Many commentators have noticed a similarity between Jesus’ return from the Mount of Transfiguration and Moses’ return from Mount Sinai with the 10 Commandments. In both cases there is a chaotic scene of failure which Jesus and Moses resolve. In… Read More ›

• Structural Analysis of Galatians Chapter 6

  By stewartfleming on May 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The following article originally appeared in a 2012 edition of the magazine Bible Study . . and how!! In this article, I try to show how the various linear and chiastic structures that Paul employs in Galatians Ch. 6 serve… Read More ›

• “From You Sounded Forth the Word of the Lord” – Is 1 Thessalonians 1:8 About Evangelism?

  By stewartfleming on April 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  1 Thessalonians 1:8 is described by the majority of Evangelical commentators and exegetes as referring to an evangelistic mission or other evangelism carried out by the recently-converted Thessalonians – evangelistic activity  which covered the two Roman provinces of Macedonia (in… Read More ›

• Christ in Genesis Chs. 1-2 and John 1:1-2:11

  By stewartfleming on February 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  A recent video by Alastair Roberts looks at the likelihood of a “creation week” at the start of John’s Gospel which “tracks” the creation week at the start of Genesis, and thus links the new creation in Christ with the… Read More ›

• Some Chiastic Structures in Luke Ch. 4 – Part 5 (Conclusion).

  By stewartfleming on January 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In this final article on chiastic structures in Luke Ch. 4, I offer a few further suggestions for how the events here can be seen as linked together within the chapter as well as suggesting links between the events in… Read More ›

• Some Chiastic Structures in Luke Ch. 4 – Part 4.

  By stewartfleming on January 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In this article, I put forward a second structural analysis of Luke  4:16-30. In this analysis, I think the main “theme” is the rejection by the people of Nazareth, not only of Jesus himself, but of the blessings which He… Read More ›

• Some Chiastic structures in Luke Ch. 4 – Part 3

  By stewartfleming on January 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In this article, I attempt to build on the work of the previous articles in this series and  present the first of two possible analyses of Luke 4:16-30 – the account of Jesus’ visit to his hometown of Nazareth. I… Read More ›