Biblical Theology
Judges 19–21: On Saving the Worst for Last While There’s Still No King in the Land (Bible Talk, Ep. 81)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 04.26.2023In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about Judges 19–21.
A Progressive Covenantal Perspective: Theonomy and Moses’s Law
By Jason S. DeRouchie | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023Theonomy fails to recognize that the New Testament applies Moses’s law through Christ only to the church and never to the state.
Relating Moses’s Law to Christians
By Jason S. DeRouchie | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023How does Moses’s law apply to believers today when so much has changed with Christ’s coming, not least of which is that we are part of the new covenant and not the old?
A Progressive Covenantal Perspective: Paul and the Tripartite Division of Moses’s Law
By Joshua M. Greever | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023Christians must call their governments to pursue and maintain a divinely-given, objective standard of morality. But Paul did not hold forth the law of Moses as this standard.
The Noahic Covenant’s Importance for Government
By David VanDrunen | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.18.2023Christians’ political thinking and conduct should always reflect the fact that our governments are in covenant with God through the Noahic covenant.
Three Building Blocks for a Christian’s Political Theology
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.14.2023Every pastor desires to see his congregation formed theologically. Part of this theological formation involves thinking through a number of questions that relate to church and state.
Judges 13-14: On the Birth and Betrothal of Israel’s Surprising, Set-Apart, and Sinful Savior (Bible Talk, Ep. 78)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 03.22.2023In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about Judges 13–14. They discuss Samson, Israel’s surprising, set-apart, and sinful savior.
Judges 11–12: On the Tragic Tale of Jephthah and the Tragic Consequences of Not Knowing Your Bible (Bible Talk, Ep. 77)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 03.08.2023In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about Judges 11–12.
Judges 9-10: On Loose Lugnuts, Israel’s Anti-King, and the Utter Stupidity of Evil (Bible Talk, Ep. 76)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 03.01.2023As we near the midpoint of Judges, the wheels are starting to fall off. Israel has long wanted a king. In Abimelech, they finally get what they want—and the results are disastrous.
Book Review: From Prisoner to Prince, by Samuel Emadi
Review by Trent Hunter | 02.24.2023Emadi has put his hand to the textual plough to combine his own exegesis with the best insights of others for a compelling case for Joseph’s typological function—what we all sensed but needed a scholar to demonstrate.
Judges 7-8: On the Complicated Story of Israel’s Knock-Off Priest-King Getting Toppled by a Sneeze (Bible Talk, Ep. 75)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 02.22.2023The lesson of Judges 7 is not that Gideon is an amazing general, but that the Lord is their warrior. The lesson of Judges 8 is that the Lord topples proud men with a sneeze.
Judges 6: On the Rise of Scaredy-Cat Gideon, Prayer Fleeces, and North Face Fleeces, Too (Bible Talk, Ep. 74)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 02.15.2023Alex chats with Jim and Sam about Gideon, Israel’s next judge who is also a scaredy-cat.
Judges 4-5: On Barak the Bashful, Deborah the Complementarian, and Jael the Serpent-Crusher (Bible Talk, Ep. 73)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 02.08.2023Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about Judges 4–5.
Judges 3:7-31: On Othniel the Leader, Ehud the Left-Handed, and Clippy the Paper Clip (Bible Talk, Ep. 72)
By A. Duke, J. Hamilton, S. Emadi | 01.25.2023In this episode of Bible Talk, Alex Duke chats with Jim Hamilton and Sam Emadi about the first three judges: Othniel the golden boy, Ehud the left-handed “son of the right-handers,” and Shamgar the oxgoad-warrior.
Book Review: Biblical Reasoning, by R. B. Jamieson and Tyler R. Wittman
Review by Kevin Vanhoozer | 01.04.2023Jamieson and Wittman dismantle the dividing wall of, if not hostility, then indifference and incomprehension, that often separates biblical studies and theology—a wall that serves neither the Scriptures, nor the church.
