Scripture has what are known as different senses. That is, there are layers of meaning found in apparently simple sentences and images. This should not be strange to us, since we all make ...

“Indeed, in some traditions, the sound of the inspired words would always be more important than their semantic meaning. Scripture was usually sung, chanted or declaimed in a way that separated ...

Sure, we have translations of the Bible—a lot of them, in fact. But pastors tell us again and again that, unlike the term in the Bibles in our laps, the true meaning of any given term in the Old ...