In my previous 5-blog series regarding the introduction to Peter’s first letter (1Peter 1-2), we discussed the possibility that Peter’s introduction could easily be interpreted as Peter’s attempt to introduce the content of his letter: that content being the blessing of the gospel message (Gen 12:1-2, Gal 3:8) delivered to the Jews first and then to the nations. (Romans 1:16) We also discussed the probability of Peter identifying himself as an “apostle” to intentionally lea

Everyone loves a good mystery. We all enjoy watching the thrill and suspense of the unknown, whether it’s a murder plot, a spooky...

In my last blog, the clusivity clues that we discovered in Paul’s use of the referential pronouns in Ephesians 1:12 and 1:13 led us to...

In a previous blog, I told the story about my Beginning Hebrew teacher deriving great joy from teaching his lesson on the Hebrew pronouns. I remember the smirkish grin on his face and the delight he seemed to get from asking the question “Who is he?” which was always accompanied by his own surprisingly unorthodox answer “He is she.” This self-bantering question-and-answer sequence was his teaching method for teaching the 3rd person singular masculine and feminine form of the

By definition, a locution (lo·cu·tion: pronounced “ləˈkyo͞oshən”) is a “word or phrase identified with a specific speaker or author,...

I remember the smirkish grin on the face of my Beginning Hebrew teacher and the joy he seemed to derive from asking the question “Who is he?” which was always accompanied by the surprisingly unorthodox answer “He is she.” This self-bantering question and answer sequence was his teaching method for teaching his students the Hebrew 3rd person singular masculine and feminine pronouns “he” and “she.” In Biblical Hebrew, “hu” is the 3rd person singular masculine pronoun form of t

In linguistics, clusivity is a term describing the grammatical feature of the use of first-person plural pronouns (“we/us/our,”) using verbal morphology identifying the inclusion or exclusion of participants to whom the speaker addresses in a specific dialog. In the use of “we/us/our,” the inclusive use specifically includes the audience along with the speaker, while the exclusive use specifically excludes the audience. An example of a language that includes grammatical clusi

In previous posts we've noticed that the Scriptures chronicle the story of how God strategically weaves His purposes into human history...