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In a course on the prophets, a professor of mine once commented that any time he did a Bible study on Amos, about half the people didn’t show back up after the first session. And (...)

It’s easy to sit back and admire the faithfulness of Job. It’s harder to sit with the book and grapple with what actually happens in it. We may be inclined to look for ways to (...)

In a passage that differs from the first description of the creation of humankind in Genesis 1:26–27, Genesis 2 gives a variant, more detailed account that most scholars argue stems from a different literary source. (...)

Proverbs 31:10–31 is perhaps one of the most well known portions of the entire book. Certainly, it has become one of the most popular sections of scripture in modern, evangelical Christian circles. In such spaces, (...)

A phrase not uncommon in English translation among the prophets is “The word of the LORD that came to…” We find this phrase in the opening verse of Hosea, Joel, Micah, and Zephaniah. Nowhere, however, (...)

  These days—when progress for civil rights seems to be backsliding, and mis- and disinformation is rampant; when respect, collaboration, and cooperation in public realms seem to have gone out the window—Woman Wisdom’s exasperation in (...)

Desde el siglo XIX, el uso de las perspectivas histórico-críticas en el análisis de los textos bíblicos generó, entre otras prácticas, la del estudio descontextualizado de pequeñas porciones o perícopas de un pasaje bajo la (...)

Collin Cornell joined the Fuller faculty in 2023 as assistant professor of Bible and mission. Dually appointed to the Bible department and the mission department, he teaches classes at Fuller’s Texas campus in Old Testament (...)

What is the true spiritual power?1 What constitutes true spiritual authority? How do we distinguish true from false teachers and prophets? Who should we allow to influence us, and whose authority can we trust? And (...)

Perhaps, Jesus’ command to “love your enemies” was not as radical as you think. Who are your enemies? Life tends to place enemies in our paths through all our domains of life. They may be (...)