Luke 2:36-40
Friday, June 12th, 2009Anna is the third of three witnesses to the birth and presentation of the Messiah (cf. Green 1997:150). She is presented by Luke as the female counterpart to Simeon (Green 1997:143). Anna is not mentioned by the other gospel writers, and serves to bring together several key Lukan themes. First is Luke’s emphasis on women [...]
Luke 2:21-24
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Mary and Joseph, as the parents to the promised Messiah, were responsible for making sure that Jesus obeyed the Law of Moses and the conditions of the covenants even from birth. This was both to train Him in obedience, and also to make sure that He was able to fulfill the Law in it’s entirety. [...]
Luke 1:67-80
Friday, April 10th, 2009The song of Zacharias begins to provide an answer to the question asked by his friends and relatives in verse 66: “What kind of child will this be?” The song of Zacharias, like the song of Mary in verses 46-55, has traditionally been named after the first word in the Latin: Benedictus, which means “Blessed.” [...]
New Approach to Scripture – Part II
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Let me discuss a bit further on how I plan to approach this commentary. First, this is a massive undertaking, and so I cannot focus on everything at once. I will try, to the best of my ability, to work through one book of the Bible at a time before moving on to another. Ideally, I would [...]
New Approach to Scripture
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Ultimately, this commentary is an attempt to flesh out a new approach to Scripture which I call Redemptive Incarnational Hermeneutics. (Sounds fancy, right? I did, after all, attend semitary.) This is an approach to Scripture I have been thinking through for about two years now. But recently, I have stumbled across several authors and teachers who already use [...]