by Justin Marple | Jun 14, 2011 | Deuteronomy Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
The English title of the fifth book of Scripture, Deuteronomy, a compound of Greek words meaning “second law” or better yet “second Torah” perceptively picks up how Moses is intentionally presenting this material as given a second time. Here...
by Justin Marple | May 23, 2011 | Deuteronomy Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
We have been arguing that most of Deuteronomy should be understood as fitting the Hittite covenant treaty formulas of the second millennium B.C. (i.e. the time of Moses and shortly thereafter). The speeches are specifically attributed to Moses and he speaks in the...
by Justin Marple | May 16, 2011 | Deuteronomy Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
Deuteronomy: The Prologue 1:1-5Deuteronomy begins with a prologue (Deut 1:1-5). The effect of this prologue is to emphasize that this book contains the last word on the words of Moses. The setting is “beyond the Jordan” (from the perspective of being in the Promised...
by Justin Marple | Dec 22, 2010 | General Teachings, TEACHING
Among those who take Scripture seriously there has been a continuing debate about the propriety of women’s ordination. The best case that can be made against the ordination of women is to appeal to Paul’s letters to places where it says that women should...
by Justin Marple | Nov 8, 2010 | Genesis Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, TEACHING
The Gospel of Genesis is highly structured and artistic. You can observe this from earlier posts on Genesis with its prologue and ten books and the way each is organized. But now I am going to add an observation regarding a pattern that emerges from the whole. The...
by Justin Marple | Sep 29, 2010 | General Teachings, TEACHING
Luke tells us about the ten lepers who asked Jesus for mercy (Luke 17:11-19). And Jesus told them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” Jesus did this as He was on the way to Jerusalem. And so the lepers would have begun heading toward Jerusalem to...
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