HeyJaredFrom the Garden Gate
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When the Framework Outruns the Text (opens the original)
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After publishing Before We Import Mythology, several objections were raised that deserve a careful answer. Those arguments matter because they reveal a larger question: when does Scripture itself require a reading, and when has an interpretive framework begun to outrun the text?My concern has never been that later Scripture or ancient literature are considered when studying a passage in Scripture. Those can be helpful. My concern is that disputed interpretive links in other Scripture itself or a
The Household of God in Ephesus (opens the original)
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Many discussions of 1 Timothy begin with one passage. Usually, it is 1 Timothy 2:11–15.But Paul did not write one isolated sentence. He wrote a letter to Timothy, who was in Ephesus, with a particular concern. So, before we ask what one sentence in 1 Timothy means, we need to ask what Paul is doing in the letter.Paul is writing as an Israelite and Roman citizen to Timothy in Ephesus, where false teaching, surrounding pagan influence, public conduct, household order, and the assembly’s witness ar
The Accusation Beneath the Ashes (opens the original)
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Before Job ever sits in ashes, his friends begin speaking, and he asks why his life has collapsed, the reader hears a question Job himself never hears in even the end:“Does Job fear God for nothing?”That question stands beneath everything that follows afterwards. It’s not a question about Job’s character, but an accusation against the sincerity of his allegiance to God.Does Job fear YHWH because YHWH is worthy? Or does Job fear Him because his life has been protected, blessed, and made prosperou
The Dominion We Remember (opens the original)
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I went to visit our vegetable garden after a severe storm and discovered a hornworm was consuming my pepper plant.It had already eaten more than half of the plant by the time I found it on there. It was enormous, green, and almost perfectly disguised against the stems and leaves it had been steadily devouring. My first thought could easily have been to pull it off and crush it. It was, after all, destroying something I had planted, watered, and hoped would produce peppers<a class="image-link ima
Before We Mythologize Job: What Kind of Book Are We Reading? (opens the original)
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The book of Job can feel strange to modern readers.There is a righteous man who loses nearly everything. There are long speeches, anguished laments, accusations, questions, whirlwind words from God, and finally, descriptions of creatures no human being can tame.Then there are names and images that often get pulled into heavy mythological frameworks: sons of God, the adversary, Rahab, the sea, the fleeing serpent, Leviathan.So before we rush to explain those passages, we need to slow down and ask
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