One of the difficulties in the exegesis of Ezekiel Ch. 16 concerns the “restoration of the fortunes” (v. 53), and the “return to an original state” (v. 55), of three cities, Jerusalem, Samaria and Sodom. The main difficulty here concerns… Read More ›
Old Testament
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 ›
Jonah – a Chiastic Analysis of the First Two Chapters – Part Two
This article is a continuation of what I hope will be a series of articles exploring the possibility that the first two chapters of Jonah (or, more accurately, Jonah 1:1-3:2) constitute a chiasm. The centre of the proposed chiasm is… 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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