Category: Biblical Musings

• October 24, 2024

  Context, Context, Context

  While teaching lately how to study the Bible (using Kevin Rhodes’s book as a guide for the first sequence of sessions), I covered the basics of biblical context. As I (and Rhodes) see it, there are essentially four broad layers of context for a given text, each with its own sub-elements: The inquisitive Bible student…
• May 16, 2024

  The First Shepherd

  Those of my readers familiar with my areas of interest know how much I enjoy the book of Genesis. I can study it forever and exhaust neither myself nor the depths of its teachings. Recently, something stirred my curiosity considering Abel. I cannot recall where or I’d cite the source, but I came across a…