Continuing the structural analysis of the book of Jonah, here is a chiastic analysis of Jonah 1:16-2:10, the famous passage where Jonah is swallowed by a great fish. The article is in the form of a Word document which can… Read More ›
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Jonah 1:11-16
Continuing our studies in Jonah, here are some attempted analyses of Jonah 1:11-16. This is the passage where the sailors ask Jonah how the sea can be made calm for them. Initially they do not follow Jonah’s drastic instructions, but then,… Read More ›
Jonah 1:3 – Chiastic Structure
Continuing an occasional series of studies in Jonah, here is an analysis of the structure of Jonah 1:3. It is recognised that Jonah 1:3 constitutes a small chiasm, and this is perhaps a good place to show how structural and… Read More ›
Lazarus and Absalom – an Inter-textual reading
This is an article I wrote a long time ago, (and which is probably in need of revising at some stage!) It is basically an attempt to show that the events described in the Old Testament account of Absalom’s… Read More ›
The Tamar and Ruth Narratives Considered Intertextually
The account in Genesis Ch. 38 of the events leading up to and including the birth of Perez to Tamar and Judah has many intertextual connections with the events leading up to and including the birth of Obed to Ruth and Boaz… Read More ›
Is There a Pattern to the “Anotations” in Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ?
Most of Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ (Matt. 1:2-16) consists of statements of the form “X begat Y”. But there are some additions – called annotations in the literature. In this article, I suggest that these annotations are carefully located in the genealogical… Read More ›
Who is the Rider on the White Horse in Revelation 6:2?
The identity of the Rider on the white horse in Rev. 6:2 has, for almost all of the history of the church, not been a matter of doubt: He is the Lord Jesus Christ, or alternatively the Holy Spirit or… Read More ›
Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ: how can we get the “3 groups of 14 generations each” described in Matt. 1:17?
We have been looking at Matthew’s genealogy of Christ, and have been doing so in terms of two alternative understandings of the term “generation” as used in Matt. 1:17 (primarily the first of these). They are 1) the (controversial!) meaning… Read More ›
“There is Therefore Now no Condemnation . . “: The Chiastic Structure of Romans 8:1-4
In this post, I wish to present a proposed chiastic analysis of this famous passage of Scripture. This is actually a (slightly modified) chapter from my book Biblical Chiasms in the Interpretation of Scripture, and the page numbers are those of… Read More ›
Judah and Jechonias and Their Respective Brethren
We have been looking at Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ in Matt. 1:1-17 and in this post I want to put forward a suggestion about Matthew’s inclusion of two, somewhat surprising, references (verse 2 and 11) to “brethren” – those of Judah and… Read More ›
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