For over a century, interpretive debates have raged over the place of modern historical methods in Catholic interpretation of Scripture, before and after the theological synthesis of Dei Verbum at …
James 4:5 is a classic crux interpretum. Craig Carpenter has suggested that Jas 4:5-6a is a gloss preceding the quotation of Prov 3:34 found later in Jas 4:6b, but his view has not gained wide acce…
This article aims to contribute to the growing body of literature on the role of smell and the senses in early Christianity by attending to the intersections of smell and sacrifice in Luke-Acts. Lu…
This study sets out to classify the story of John the Baptist's death in Mark 6:17-29 as a "banquet travesty," a literary type-scene attested by a range of ancient authors. I will demonstrate that …
In keeping with the semantic core of the root the term designates "rollers." Connections with Egypt suggest a more specific use of in a number of passages of the Hebrew text of Ezekiel. It is a des…
In this essay, I examine a long-standing crux interpretum in 2 Kgs 23:7 that reads, "And he tore down the homes of the male prostitutes, which were in the temple of Yhwh; where the women were weavi…
The article examines two ways that ancient Israelites mentally organized the world's animal inventory and physical geography in conjunction with each other. In the first way, the world was mentally…