One of the frequent comments about this verse is that it doesn’t appear to fit very well in the context of the surrounding verses: it appears to be an intrusion into the flow of Paul’s thought in this part of… Read More ›
Analysis
The 153 Fishes and Solomon’s Temple – an Inter-textual Reading
This article is actually chapter 3 of my book Chiastic Structures in the Interpretation of Scripture. The article is a Word document and can be accessed below or from the Articles page of this website. In his Gospel, John makes many… Read More ›
A “Timeline” for Jonah Chapter 2 (Jonah’s “Psalm”)
Jonah chapter 2 is basically the prayer that Jonah says from the belly of the great fish. In it he “rehearses” to Yahweh the events that have led up to his rescue. Now some of these events were things that he… Read More ›
Peace Be Still! – a Surprising Chiasm in Mark Chapters 3-6
This article is actually one of the chapters from my book Biblical Chiasms in the Interpretation of Scripture (hence the page numbering!) In this article, I start by drawing attention to the known chiasm in Mark chs. 3-6 which has at… Read More ›
Jonah – A Chiastic Analysis of the First Two Chapters (Part 1)
I have been looking at chiastic structures in Jonah, and am currently investigating the possibility that the first two chapters (or more precisely, Jonah 1:1 – 3:2) constitute a fairly large single chiasm. In this first article on this topic,… Read More ›
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