My short answers and articles collected from around the net.
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- A study in wine
- According to Scripture, how should we interpret Scripture?
- Admah and Zeboiim in Hosea 11:8
- Allegory and metaphor dishonest?
- Alter: Introduction
- Are Job's friends the voice of the Accuser?
- Are the four profitable areas in 2 Tim 3:16 covering doctrine and practice?
- Are the rings for carrying the incense altar pure gold?
- Are there any hermeneutics principles that can be related to scientific principles?
- Augustine's error
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- Did Isaiah really predict a virgin birth?
- Did Jephthah actually sacrifice his daughter?
- Did King Hezekiah do something wrong in showing off his wealth to emissaries from Babylonia in II Kings 20?
- Did Noah take two doves, or fourteen?
- Did Paul expect Timothy to see “the last days”?
- Difficult passages
- Discussions with skeptics
- Do any Hermeneutical approaches have a specific meaning for the number 11?
- Do any Hermeneutical approaches provide an explanation of the limited information on Shamgar the Judge?
- Does base-10 numbering in Genesis 4:24 argue against the Wiseman hypothesis?
- Does Daniel 12 imply the righteous will become stars?
- Does Genesis say where evil came from?
- Does Genesis's creation account depict creation “ex nihilo”?
- Does Jesus show compassion to demons in Mark 5:12-13
- Does Moses Speak Broken Hebrew?
- Does Paul intend that what follows after 1 Corinthians 7:25a have less authority?
- Does sensus plenior exist in the New Testament?
- Does the Gospel of Thomas help in reproducing the hermeneutical methods of the apostles?
- Does “learned obedience” imply that Jesus was disobedient?
- Dogs and swine
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- Holy Trinity
- Hosea 13:14 as quoted in 1 Corinthians 15
- How and why did Jesus weep?
- How can I identify puns in the Hebrew Bible?
- How can we determine if a text is sarcastic?
- How could Matthew quote Hosea as a “fulfillment” of Jesus, when Hosea was referring to the nation of Israel?
- How could Satan tempt Jesus?
- How did Jesus Gain his Knowledge?
- How did Jesus say “Unless the marriage is unlawful”?
- How did mankind's way of relating to God change in Genesis 4:26?
- How did Noah's descendants procreate?
- How do Jewish scholars differ from Christian scholars in their approach to the Tanakh?
- How do we identify the fingerprint of God?
- How do you know an allegory is valid?
- How does Jesus' argument from David and the show bread work?
- How does Jesus' being from Nazareth fulfill the prophets?
- How does the Genesis account of the Tower of Babel compare with other traditions about the tower?
- How does the Noah's Ark narrative relate to the Gilgamesh flood account?
- How does “Sensus Plenior” differ from Allegory, Gnosticism, Kaballah, and Midrash?
- How many common hermeneutical approaches are there and how do they differ?
- How often must we forgive our enemies?
- How should graded numerical parallelism in Hebrew poetry be understood?
- How should John 1 be interpreted?
- How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”?
- How to interpret Mark 4:9-12?
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- In what way was Jesus' prayer heard (Hebrews 5:7)?
- Interpretation of Genesis 1:26?
- Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics
- Is 1 Corinthians 11:19 intended as irony?
- Is Ecclesiastes a book of negative wisdom?
- Is hermeneutics primarily descriptive or prescriptive?
- Is Hosea 4:11 teaching total abstinence from alcohol?
- Is it a sin to wear polyester blends, etc?
- Is Jesus giving the Spirit in John 20:22?
- Is Joel 2:31 an end times prophesy?
- Is Leviticus 12 saying that giving birth to a child is a sin?
- Is Revelation 3:14 saying that Christ was created by God?
- Is the usual translation of “ηὐχόμην” as “I could wish” justified in Romans 9:3?
- Is there an interpretive significance for nashak (kiss) and nasak (burn) being puns?
- Is “puppies” a justifiable translation of κυναρίοις?
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- Was Adam created as complete man containing both male and female?
- Was Jesus in the grave for 3 days.
- Was Moses the probable author of Genesis?
- Was the discounting by the manager in Luke 16 a dishonest act?
- Was there an eclipse just before Jesus died?
- Wedding at Cana
- What are higher and lower criticism?
- What are the “stones of fire” in Ezekiel 28?
- What belief does Job refer to in Job 19:25?
- What did Isaiah intend with his unusual usage of “create” in Isaiah 45:7?
- What did the blind man from Bethsaida see?
- What does Hebrews 6:4-6 mean?
- What does it mean for Jesus to fulfill the law?
- What does it mean that “Scripture interprets Scripture”?
- What does it mean when God separated light from darkness?
- What does Jesus mean by generation when talking about the end times?
- What does Jesus mean in Matthew 26:64 with “You have said so”?
- What does Paul mean by allegory in Galatians 4:24?
- What does “Jealous” mean in Exodus 34:14?
- What does “meek” mean in Matthew 5:5?
- What does “put the branch to their nose” in Ezekiel 8:17 mean?
- What does “reconciling all things” mean in Colossians 1:20?
- What does “run to and fro” in Daniel 12:4 mean?
- What does “word of God” mean in Hebrews 4:12?
- What hermeneutical approach does Hebrews use on the Old Testament
- What is a Horizon of Understanding and how can it be applied to understanding the Bible?
- What is Jesus trying to tell us about divisions in the household?
- What is Sensus Plenior and how does it impact the field of hermeneutics?
- What is the baptism of fire?
- What is the connection between manna and living on the Word of God?
- What is the difference between the 'life' given by wisdom in Proverbs and 'life' given by Jesus in 1 John?
- What is the difference in response between Zechariah and Mary?
- What is the referent of “body of Christ” in 1 Corinthians 11:29?
- What is the significance of 153 fish?
- What is the significance of Methuselah's name?
- What is the significance of Moses being called a “bridegroom of blood?”
- What is the story behind mourning for Hadad-rimmon in Zechariah 12:11?
- What is the textual evidence for defining “μισέω” as “reject”?
- What is the third heaven that Paul mentions in 2 Corinthians 12:2?
- What is the tree of life in Proverbs 11:30?
- What is the “fourfold sense of Scripture”?
- What is “Midrash” and how does it relate to Christian principles of hermeneutics?
- What is “Regula Fidei”?
- What is “sin that leads to death” in 1 John 5:16?
- What types of birth were meant by 'blood', 'will of the flesh', and 'will of man'?
- What was wrong with Nazareth?
- What were the Corinthians doing when they “baptized on behalf of the dead”?
- What “is lacking in Christ's afflictions” according to Paul?
- What's wrong with cooking a kid in its mother's milk?
- When did Jesus change his view on preaching to Gentiles?
- When was Jesus's body 'broken'?
- Where did Abel get the idea to sacrifice sheep?
- Where did Cain get his wife
- Where is the citation of John 7:38 taken from?
- Which hermeneutical approaches support a literal interpretation of the Creation account?
- Which Hermeneutical schema support individual portions of texts taken out of order?
- Who are “the least of these my brothers” in Matthew 25?
- Who is being “taken” in Matthew 24:40-41?
- Who Killed Saul?
- Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26?
- Who received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost?
- Why are fathers missing in Mark 10:30?
- Why did God “change His mind” with Balaam?