Ruminations on biblical studies, technology, economics, and sports from Jason A. Staples
I am pleased to report that my article, “What Do the Gentiles Have to Do with ‘All Israel’? A Fresh Look at Rom 11:25–27″ has (finally!) been published in the summer edition of the Journal of Biblical Literature. This article is a piece of a project that began in the spring of 2003 and is [...] Read more »
I’ve been experimenting with mindmapping software to graphically show trajectories and thematic clusters in my dissertation. So far, I think it may turn out pretty helpful, showing a lot of connections graphically that are really difficult to explain verbally—putting “mosaic” thinking in discursive form is the biggest difficulty (aside from the constant need for citation) [...] Read more »
There’s a pretty good post on how various eschatological perspectives have influenced American foreign policy decisions over at the New Jerusalem Community Blog. Though not exactly precise in terminology (identifying “premillennial” with “dispensational” when the former does not necessarily imply the latter), the blog is an excellent read about how certain end times theologies have [...] Read more »
Mark Goodacre’s most recent NT Pod (as usual posted at NT Blog as well) deals with Paul’s “conversion,” or, as Goodacre prefers, Paul’s “call.” He says (thanks to Loren Rosson for typing up the quote): Read more »
I am still a bit numb after finally finishing my article “What Do the Gentiles Have To Do With ‘All Israel’? A Fresh Look at Rom 11:25-27,” the first piece in a radical reexamination of Paul’s Gospel and its apocalyptic assumptions and implications. The whole project started with work for a term paper on Jeremiah [...] Read more »
