Below you can find series of posts I have created on various theological issues as well as a link to my dissertation.

The Evangelical’s Creation Conundrum: Navigating the Scylla and the Charybdis of Science and Scripture

Odysseus faces the Scylla and Charybdis. Henry Füssli [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

1. The Evangelical’s Creation Conundrum: Navigating the Scylla and the Charybdis
2. Designed for Order: The ANE Wisdom Worldview
3. The Fear of Yahweh is the Beginning of Wisdom: The Israelite Wisdom Worldview
4. Consilience: The Unity of Science and Scripture in the Matrix of Wisdom
5. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, How I Wonder When You Are
6. The Structural Symmetry of the Six Days of Creation
7. Creation is a Temple: Reading Creation through the Proper Interpretive Lens
8. Creation is a Temple: The Temple in the Ancient Near East
9. Creation is a Temple: The Temple in Moses’ Creation Account of Genesis 1
10. Reading Genesis 1 as Literature and the Three Problems it Creates for Evangelicals
11. How Plato and Aristotle Took Us on a 2,500 Year Detour: Why Mimesis Makes All the Difference
12. Why We Don’t Have to and Shouldn’t Give Up on Inerrancy: Maps, Metaphor, Mimesis and Isomorphisms

The Righteousness and Survival of the Seed

Sorry, my dissertation is no longer available for download but there’s good news, I have signed a contract to have it published with Brill!

Genesis 22: This is a Test. This is Only a Test.

Caravaggio’s The Binding of Isaac via Wikimedia, public domain.

1. This is a Test. This is Only a Test.
2. This is Only a Test, two.
3. Metaphor is an Isomajigamabob
4. No Metaphor is an Island

Genesis 1:1-2:3: Genesis and the Big Gnab Theory

Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel via Wikimedia, public domain.

1. Genesis and the Big Gnab Theory
2. Genesis 1:1-3: The Creation Account and Hebrew Narrative
3. Genesis 1:1-2:3: The Creation Account as Hebrew Poiesis
4. Genesis 1:1-2:3 in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
5. Creation – Temple – Creation
6. Genesis 1: Cosmology or Cosmogony?

The Story of Acts

Caravaggio’s conversion of St. Paul on the way to Damascus via Wikimedia, public domain.

1. The Story of Acts
2. How to Read a Story
3. The Beginning of Acts
4. The Middle of Acts: Continuing the Ministry of Jesus
5. Mount Sinai and the Pentecost: Recreating the People of God
6. You Will be My Witnesses: In Jerusalem
7. You Will be My Witnesses: In Judea and Samaria
8. You Will be My Witnesses: To the Ends of the Earth
9. We’ve Only Just Begun: The Emergence of Paul
10. A Work that You Will Not Believe
11. I Must Also See Rome!