Category Archives: Bible-Theology

A sermon at Lansdale Presbyterian Church… Continue reading →

As the PBU family–all of us Dr. Hsu’s children in some sense–mourns his death, we look with pain and expectation to the resurrection. Between now and then, we will miss him, and many others whom we have lost and will yet lose. Yet YHWH loses none who call upon him. He sees the suffering of his children, and hears the groaning of the broken world that he created good–and he grieves with us. Continue reading →

My presentation for PBU’s Agora Conference last Saturday, “‘Unless You Have Utterly Rejected Us’: Lamentations as an Instrument of Community Renewal,” is now posted… Continue reading →

Is there really class conflict in Isaiah 40-55? Gottwald says “Yes.” Continue reading →

In December 2009 I posted a piece entitled, “Hengel and Gese on the LXX.” I thought I might interact with portions of this piece in order to see if and how my thinking on the issue has changed in nearly two years… Continue reading →

Who among the prophets would have guessed, though, that YHWH’s presence would return to his people not in a cloud or a pillar of fire, but as a person, Yeshua` bar Yosef, who came and “tented” (εσκηνωσεν) among us? Continue reading →

I was bored at work yesterday, and so I put together a chart comparing certain narrative elements of the first Genesis Creation account (1:1-2:4) and the account of the Noahic flood (7:17-9:17). Creation/Flood Comparision It’s fascinating that in the final … Continue reading →

LSUr begins with the decision of the high divine council to bring calamity upon Sumer and Ur… Continue reading →