Interpreting the Scriptures

 Understanding Prophecy A prophet, in the Biblical sense, is one who spoke for God and whose words were not the product of his own spirit or flesh, but from God. The system of righteousness that God designed for Israel after they rejected His Presence … [Read more...] about Prophetic Considerations

Midrash Midrash is the Anglicisation of a Hebrew word that means "story" or "explanation" and refers to the Jewish literary practice of using a story for illustration, illumination or edification. It is also used to refer to the technique of interpretation of … [Read more...] about Figures of Speech

 We sometimes forget that the first Christians were Jews and that the Bible is essentially a Jewish book, written by Jews, primarily about Jews and initially, at least, for Jews. All of the Biblical writers were Jewish, with the exception of Luke, who was a … [Read more...] about Interpretive Considerations