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Deep dives into the books, themes, and theology of the Bible.

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“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness.”
Daniel 9:24
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Going deeper, not wider

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Exegesis

Every study begins in the original languages — Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. We examine what the text actually says before asking what it means.

02

Context

Scripture is not a collection of isolated verses. We trace the historical, literary, and theological context that gives each passage its weight.

03

Connection

The Bible is one story. We follow the threads that weave through both testaments — types, prophecies, and the unfolding plan of redemption.

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Narrative27 min

Rainbow and Curse: Bow, Vineyard, Oracle

Genesis 9:8-29

Genesis 9:8-29 is the canonical first iteration of the covenant-sign formula and the textbook test case of how the Hebrew lexicon resists training-data overlay. H7198 qeshet is a weapon-bow (76 OT uses, 94.7% war or hunting bow) — God hangs his weapon in the cloud, and the bow-in-cloud functions as the covenant's visible guarantee. The Ham-saw question turns on a lexical distinction the lexicon makes plain (ra'ah ervah vs galah ervah), and the curse at Gen 9:25 falls on Canaan, not Ham — MT, SP, and LXX all agree on the curse-recipient.

Narrative26 min

The Noahic Charter: Altar, Aroma, Image

Genesis 8:15-9:7

Genesis 8:15-9:7 is the canonical first iteration of three load-bearing institutions and the verbal completion of a prophecy issued five generations earlier. Noah builds the first mizbeach, offers the first olah, and YHWH smells the first reach nichoach — and the aroma's Hebrew root (n-w-ch) is Noah's own name. The post-Flood charter then renews the Adamic mandate verbatim and grounds the lex talionis in tselem Elohim, an image whose LXX rendering eikōn lands at Col 1:15 on Christ.

Narrative27 min

The Flood: Uncreation, Remembrance, Re-creation

Genesis 7:1-8:14

Eighty-three Hebrew verses chiastically center on a single sentence: va-yizkor Elohim et-Noach (Gen 8:1). The Flood narrative is the canonical first iteration of uncreation-and-recreation — Gen 1's cosmogonic lexicon returns inverted, the judgment-execution verbs run forward into the Red Sea at 34% coverage, and the dove-over-water of Gen 8:8-11 becomes the only canonical pair with Jesus' baptism that 1 Pet 3:21 names as antitype.

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