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1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for ...
Read the Scripture: Daniel 8:1-27. The eighth chapter of Daniel contains a different kind of little prophecy than any we have seen before. In the other prophetic sections of the book we have had a more or less direct view of future events brought before us Chapter 2 was a long-range telescopic view, looking down the whole range of time ...
considered, along with his activity as a propagandist, and his role in the development of the German language. Four and one-half centuries attest to the fact that Martin Luther did, in fact, get across his message. He used the ser-mon, the broadside pamphlet, the book, the cartoon, and the hymn to his good advantage. He was a prolific writer ...
- James Harold Batts
- 1974
- The Redundant Lie
- The Literal/Figurative Switcheroo
- Gene Splicing
- The Devious Disqualifier
- Firstborn Fabrication
- Combining Identities
- The Generic Juke
- Time Shifting
- Advantageous Adoption
- The Name Game
Probably the most common and easiest technique to spot, The Redundant Lie is a false claim that the Biblical authors repeated often but was unnecessary in the narrative. It could be repeated with the same word/phrase or explained in various ways. “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is often attributed to the Nazi propagandist Jose...
Biblical authors would take literal descriptions from the original narrative and make them figurative or vice versa. They would also take figurative language and change the figurative meaning of it. Examples: 1. Euphemism - In the Samson narrative, “plow with my heifer” originally referred to someone having sex with Samson’s wife-to-be but is chang...
Biblical characters were spliced into different family lines for various reasons, including legitimizing a kingly line, changing tribal origins and changing an inheritance to a different person. Examples: 1. The following kings were all spliced into different family lines: Saul, David, Solomon and Rehoboam. This was done to legitimize their kingly ...
Biblical authors would disqualify people in the original narrative in order to replace them with someone they preferred. Example: 1. Saul was disqualified from being king because he didn’t totally destroy the Amalekites. This opens the way for David to become the legitimate king.
Biblical authors would replace the firstborn in order to give the firstborn benefits to someone else. Examples: 1. Rueben is disqualified as the firstborn for sleeping with Abraham’s concubine. 2. Jacob replaces Esau as the firstborn by having him stick his arm out of the womb first, then getting Esau to sell his firstborn right.
Identities were combined in order to assimilate tribes or religions. Examples: 1. Jacob/Israel - Jacob and Israelwere two different people in the original narrative. These two were combined in order to have a united Israel 2. Joseph/Zaphnath-Paaneah - Josephand Zaphnath-Paaneah were originally two different people but were combined in order to assi...
Characters from an oral tradition were sometimes changed or removed in the Biblical narrative. However, it would have been too obvious of a change to replace the name of the original person to the name of the new person. The Biblical author would instead substitute a generic title to replace or remove a name. 1. David - In the oral tradition, David...
By changing events from one time period to another, Biblical authors could change the meaning of those events. Examples: 1. Amos - By moving Amos’ claim of being a herdsman from the end of his career to the beginning, the Biblical author helps change Amos from a failed prophet to a successful one. 2. Isaiah - By moving the charge of being a “man of...
Adopting someone into a family can add benefits for their descendants. Example: 1. Ephraim and Manassehare adopted by Jacob, putting them on par with Jacob’s other sons.
The meaning of someone’s name could point to an aspect of a previous narrative that the Biblical author didn’t like. Changing the meaning of the name put it more in line with the author’s agenda. Examples: 1. Obedmeans “servant” and pointed to the original narrative that he was the son of a slave. The Biblical author has the neighbors name him to t...
It does not seem to have occurred to any of the writers of either the Old or the New Testaments to attempt to prove or to argue for the existence of God. Everywhere and at all times it is a fact taken for granted. "A God capable of proof would be no God at all" (Jacobi). He is the self-existent One (Exod. 3: 14) and the Source
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The term ‘literary study of the Bible’ describes a wide field of which the present work attempts to cover only a limited part. In particular, the term will include the most prominent of all types of Bible study, that which is now universally called the ‘Higher Criticism.’ There is no longer any need to speak of the
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synchoresis. Placing, with confidence, one's case in the hands of the judge, one's adversary, or the people. epitrope. A figure in which one turns things over to one's hearers, either ironically, or in such a way as to suggest a proof of something without having to state it.
