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.

Isaiah
27:1 God and the chaos monster (and the climate crisis)
27:9 Is this how Paul thought “all Israel” might be saved in practice?
40:3 Some notes on Mark 1:2-3 in response to Rikk Watts
42:1 The Holy Spirit 3: This is my beloved Son
45:22-25 The name which is above every name: Philippians 2:8-11 as a meditation on Psalm 137 LXX
45:22-25 Is Jesus Yahweh? Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess…
45:23 Every knee shall bow: the question about Jesus and God
52:7 How beautiful on the mountains were the feet of Jesus
52:13-53:12 Another reason to think that Isaiah’s suffering servant is the generation of Jews which grew up in Babylon
52:13-53:12 About whom does the prophet say this?
52:13-53:12 Who was the suffering servant of Isaiah 52:13-53:12?
53:11-53:12 Substitutionary versus anti-substitutionary theories: both lose, one more than the other
56:1-8 Israel and the nations: the limits of Old Testament expectation
56:6-7 What the remarkable “Hymn of Babylon” teaches us about the mission of the church today
59:9-10 God and the chaos monster (and the climate crisis)
59:20 Is this how Paul thought “all Israel” might be saved in practice?
59:20-21 Will all Israel be saved? Hurtado and Wright
61:1-4 Did Jesus avoid proclaiming a “day of vengeance” against Israel in the synagogue in Nazareth?
65:17 Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: the eschatology of Isaiah 60-66
66:22 Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: the eschatology of Isaiah 60-66
66:24 Was Gehenna a burning rubbish dump, and does it matter?
Jeremiah
7:9 Why should a man be thrown into Gehenna for having looked lustfully at a woman?
7:11 The “den of robbers” and the revolt against Rome
16 Fishers of people and the judgment of Gehenna
29:4-7 Is Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles a missional text?
29:4-9 There is only one biblical way to transform society, and it’s not social activism
29:7 Christendom, exile, and the kingdom of God
31:40 The end of Gehenna
Ezekiel
28:11-19 Neither the prince of Tyre nor the king of Babylon is Satan
34 Who came to seek and save the lost sheep of the house of Israel?