The Letter to the Romans re-enacts for all peoples the Israelite Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land—from slavery to freedom.

Some think that congregations should be more critical in selecting scripture readings. They insist upon creating a canon within the canon. But this bases the authority of the Bible not on the Bible itself, but on the Bible as read by a particular communit

God’s repentance is not only an expression of divine freedom, but also of divine compassion.

The particularity of God’s revelation to the ethnic group Israel and the universality of the Christian community need not be in conflict.

A rare teacher, James Muilenburg was able to hold together the historical meaning, the literary form and the theological significance of biblical texts.

God’s name is wrongfully used whenever it is invoked to support social injustice or to serve national interests.

Why was Miriam severely punished for challenging Moses’ authority while Aaron got off scot-free? There is no way to avoid the fact that the story presupposes a patriarchal society.

The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible has an independence that should not be compromised by either Christianizing or Judaizing it. Together, we need to discuss what it says about God and God’s relationship to human beings and the world.

The terms “Christ” and “Messiah” do not refer to a divine being but to the function an agent of God plays in bringing the kingdom that is to come on earth as in heaven.

The Greek word synkatabasis refers to God’s “stooping” to meet human beings at their own level, just as a parent gets down on the floor and “lisps” to a child.

Paul’s theology—grounded in Jewish thought and scriptures—propelled him to confront the powers of Rome and the pagan gods that stood behind them.

The newness of the Old Testament

Not to result in a religious conversion, but to hearing the “teaching” that goes forth from Zion in the name of the God who is worshipped there. The universal is to be found in the particular.

Is Heterosexuality—the biological norm for reproduction—also the ethical norm for human sexual relations? My proposal does not provide answers, but gives a basis for discussion in terms of biblical theology.

Those who explain Paul as a Hellenizer are swimming against the tide. The arguments for his essential Jewishness are overwhelming.

How can we gain a biblical understanding of the social and political events of our day?

In the presence of native Americans who lost their land to invaders, I took a new interest in those forgotten peoples of the Bible who were dispossessed by the fulfillment of God’s promise to the Israelites to give them “a land flowing with milk and honey

The holy God is beyond all our categories, including gender distinctions of masculine or feminine.