Bible index

Use this page to search for posts that deal at some length with particular Bible passages. New Testament books are listed first. Only books and chapters with linked content are listed. Selecting the book will update the chapters list.

1 Samuel
8:1-22 The biblical story of the kingdom of God: a thought for election day
2 Samuel
11 No one’s blaming Bathsheba
11 Further notes on David and Bathsheba
11 Did David rape Bathsheba?
13:1-22 The narrative vocabulary of rape in the Old Testament and the counter-example of Amnon and Tamar
1 Chronicles
4:9-10 How to pray the prayer of Jabez
2 Chronicles
28:8-15 Who is my enemy? The parable of the good Samaritan
Psalms
2:7 Was Jesus an adopted Son?
2:8-9 From the River to the ends of the earth: Jesus and empire
16:11 Do both the good and the bad go to Hades?
17:15 Do both the good and the bad go to Hades?
37:11 The meek shall inherit the land: an exercise in hermeneutical restraint
37:11 As Scot McKnight says, the meek ought to have inherited the land
47:9 Israel and the nations: the limits of Old Testament expectation
49:15 Do both the good and the bad go to Hades?
72:8 From the River to the ends of the earth: Jesus and empire
73:24 Do both the good and the bad go to Hades?
74:12-17 God and the chaos monster (and the climate crisis)
82 You are gods: Carl Mosser on theosis
82:1-8 I said you are gods…
87:4-6 Israel and the nations: the limits of Old Testament expectation
89:10 God and the chaos monster (and the climate crisis)
89:25-27 From the River to the ends of the earth: Jesus and empire
89:25 Jesus and the sea: arguments about divine identity
102:25-27 They will all wear out like a garment: rethinking the quotation of Psalm 102:25-27 in Hebrews 1
110:1 Richard Bauckham: the throne of God and the worship of Jesus
110:1-4 “The Lord said to my lord….” Did Jesus indulge in prosopological exegesis of the Old Testament?
137:8-9 The theological interpretation of scripture and the dashing of babies against rocks
138 The name which is above every name: Philippians 2:8-11 as a meditation on Psalm 137 LXX
Proverbs
8:22-31 What is the eschatological wisdom of God up to these days?