Justice and Mercy, §1: Nahum: The God Who Defends The Oppressed

I intend this to be a mini-series of three biblical-theological inquiries into the dialectical tension between God’s passion for justice to be wrought for the oppressed, and God’s scandalous compassion on the enemies of God. This train of thinking has been occasioned by David Congdon’s stellar post on Political Pacifism, the most recent installment [...]

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Explicitization in Ephesians 5.22-24

Here is a polemic against the explicitizing tendency in the scribes of the Byzantine textform. The Alexandrians, for sure, had a sort of elitism operating in their persistent Atticisims, and this is an issue that has to be kept in mind in textual criticism. But in mentioning the film “Crash” in my last [...]

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