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.

Leviticus
18:22 Same-sex unions in eschatological perspective
19:17-18 Love your neighbour and other knee-jerk reactions
26:34-35 Where is the God of history in this pandemic?
Numbers
14:33 Another reason to think that Isaiah’s suffering servant is the generation of Jews which grew up in Babylon
Deuteronomy
6:4 Is Jesus included in the “divine identity” in 1 Corinthians 8:6?
6:4 Jesus, the Shema, and the scribe who is not far from the kingdom of God
6:4-5 Does Paul include Jesus in the “Shema” in 1 Corinthians 8:6?
32:19-23 Is this how Paul thought “all Israel” might be saved in practice?
32:21 Which Lord shall we provoke to jealousy?
Judges
4 What is the case against the case against women’s ordination?
1 Samuel
6:1-7 Tim Challies on the wrath of God and the existence of hell
8:1-22 The biblical story of the kingdom of God: a thought for election day
2 Samuel
11 Further notes on David and Bathsheba
11 Did David rape Bathsheba?
11 No one’s blaming 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 As Scot McKnight says, the meek ought to have inherited the land
37:11 The meek shall inherit the land: an exercise in hermeneutical restraint
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