I’ve learned a lot during the past couple of weeks as I’ve proposed different approaches to Biblical interpretation and got feedback (positive and negative). Here are the current posts as well as a selection of reactions from other bloggers:

My sermon series on the book of Judges: Chapter 1, All Thumbs: Although not strictly a part [...]

In my opening post I asserted that readers of the Bible often wield Alexander’s Sword, cutting right to a highly localized and idiosyncratic reading of Scripture that is both divorced from the original authorial intention and quite often right on. I have to believe that’s the case for a couple of reasons. First, we know [...]

In my last post we looked at some bad boys, 43 in all, and two bad she-bears. In this post I want to look at some bad girls in the Bible using Liz Curtis Higgs writings, especially Bad Girls of the Bible. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to purchase the ebook because of copyright restrictions [...]

As a follow-up to Exegetical Sketches: Bad Boy Bible Study, I’ve selected a passage from the Chapter & Worse project at Ship of Fools and will show how BBBS can be used to address even some of the most difficult passages in the Old Testament.
By the way, I consider myself a pretty conservative interpreter [...]

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
(1 Cor. 10:11, NIV)

The best way to get a handle on interpreting the Old Testament is to repaint the heroes as villains. The Bible is God’s holy word. It is inspired. [...]

Previous post: Exegetical Sketches: Alexander’s Sword
On Wednesday, May 24, 1738, he opened his Testament (evidently practicing a sort of bibliomancy) at the words, "There are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, even that ye should be partakers of the divine nature." Later he read, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.’* [...]

Note: In this series, I’m not joking although I hope to be entertaining.
What I want to do in this blog series is give an overview of some alternative ways of doing Bible study in a Christian context. There are several weaknesses in the dominant interpretative method known as Grammatical-Historical Interpretation (Hereafter referred to as GHI). [...]

In an effort to raise the level of Biblical preaching, I’ve decided to live blog my own sermon series on the book of Judges. This is a unique opportunity to watch a master communicator at work (me) and I’m sure that preachers young and old will thank me for modeling proper hermeneutics on this difficult [...]