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The Nativity (detail), about 1420–1430, Master of the Harvard Hannibal 

 

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Biblical Interpretation

 

Why do I teach?

Time

Language of “world”

Critical imagination

A Canaanite Woman’s Faith

Ruth and Naomi

“The body of Christ” again

Johannine Language

Study questions about John’s Gospel

Five Religious Responses

The Johannine Realism

Anothen (John 3:3)

Agathos (Matt 20:15)

Jesus and Nicodemus

Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels

Why did Jesus come to the world?

Gal 2:20 translations

Mid-term evaluation of biblical interpretation

Resurrecting Jesus

Unjust judge and widow

Father and two sons

Rich farmer

Good Samaritan

Ten bridesmaids

Great banquet

Two sons

Pearl

Treasure

Wheat and weeds

Talents

Lost sheep

Leaven

Fig tree

Unmerciful servant

Vineyard laborers

Tenants

Mustard seed

Seed growing secretly

Sower

Parables of Jesus

How to interpret parables

10 Lessons of Parables

 

Romans and Galatians: How to read them

Freedom and the New Testament

Faith and the New Testament

Messiah in weakness

Resurrecting Jesus

John 14:6 and exclusivism

Reading the Bible transformatively

What is biblical interpretation?

Threefold Theology of Paul

Augustine, Luther, and Western Christianity

Talk with Indonesian students about my book

The Cross of Jesus is not itself the good news

Atonement theories and Jesus

Unreading the NT

Who says Jesus is yes, and Paul is no?

The good news begins with God

Alternative interpretation of the body of Christ

Paul’s Gospel and Empire

New Testament theology

Ends and means (Ruth)

Difficult stories: How to read

Mary Magdalene

Derrida and interpretation

Kant and interpretation

Collapse of logocentrism

Test everything

Key concepts in Tanakh

Interpolation

Atonement theories

Eremos in Luke 15:4

Redaction criticism (water baptism)

Reflections on Ecclesiastes (Qohelet)

Book of Job

Job’s Lament

Definitions of wisdom

Righteousness and justice

Wisdom reading notes

Confronting Proverbs

Key concepts in the Tanakh

Eccl 3:12

-Eccl 1:2 (Hebel)

-Hebel 2

Elihu

Four portrayals of Jesus

Matthean Jesus vs. Lukan Jesus

Sacrifice and sin offering

-Pistis Christou texts and translation

-Pistis Christou comparison

What Christology?

Judah

Old and New Perspectives on Paul

Rom 3:22

The Good News and Paul

The Good News and Jesus

The Good News of God

Soma Christou and 1 Cor 12

Whose unity?

BODY means complex things

Threefold faith

Atonement theology and Paul

New Testament Theology

Textual criticism matters

Gospels’ reliability

Ethical Mandate of the Bible

Justice matters, but which justice?

Basics of biblical interpretation

7 Steps for Biblical Interpretation

Reflection

Wisdom for new seminary/graduate students

Trails

Choose the way of life

Transformation and weakness

Love builds up

Rejoice always

Teaching the Bible in a Different Culture

COVID-19 and my teaching

Life and death

Various reflections

Is some anxiety good?

Definition of wisdom

Cross-cultural wisdom

What am I?

Tips for success in class

I am conscientious

Small wisdom

Black seminary

Jesus and Confucius

Confucius and Bacon

Confucius’s practical mind

Summary of Confucius’s Thought

Analects 13:23

Key phrases from Kongzi

Power of a metaphor

New blood

Human stupidity

Ideal humanity

Naive religion

The intersection of religion and politics

Don’t mimic others

Political philosophy

Theology and science

Marginality

Confucius and Paul

Confucius’s ethics

Diversity

Shame and hate

“Love” in Confucianism

What you cannot do

What truth?

Western Christianity

Racist thinking

In this turbulent time

Paul as a perfectionist

Roots of individualism

Bible and human transformation

“The Body of Christ” research

Preaching Ideas

Stand on God’s side

Three Pauline adjectives

Various sermonic ideas (eclectic)

Joseph’s dreams

Mustard seed

Born from above (John 3:3)

Faith, Hope, and Love

Wrestling

Unjust Steward

1 Cor 9:16

Pearl of great value

Godly grief

Faith is not knowledge

Truth

Reimagining the body

Pistis Christou: whose faith?

Rom 3:22: The snapshot of the gospel

The birth metaphor

John 14:6

“To believe” in John’s Gospel

1 Cor 12:27

The Story of Hannah

“Today” in Luke

Wisdom from Ecclesiastes

Three moments

Liberate the Bible

Eccl 3:1-8

Hebel is not the same as vanity or worthless

Job 42:6 (nacham)

“It is finished”

Pistis Christou in Rom and Gal

Jesus as the locus of reconciliation

Tzedakah and mishpat

Matt 25:31-46

Circumcision and Galatians

The Body of Christ (podcast)

Others

Sewol Tragedy

Letter to President Trump (2017)

No longer bound

Mental health and well-being

NRSVue improvement

Mock interview: Rereading Galatians

Def. of research

Abortion case study

Writing tips

Scholarship manifesto

Study today

Adieu 2021

Teaching Philosophy

Life is not a vanity

Communal revival

Unfinished

Writing philosophy

When you hit the bottom of yourself

Examples of abstract

My story as a theological educator

Race, Ethnicity and the Gospels

Confucianism

Dao De Jing

Cross-cultural texts

Tomorrow

Social Media

Def. of biblical interpretation

Slumdog Millionaire

Various writings between 1990s–2000

Cross-cultural wisdom

My teaching identity

The Passion of the Christ

Three marks of existence

Oregon trip

Jung Do-Jeon

Quotes (me)

Trails

Book Review of Marginality

Book Review of Santa Biblia

Book Review of Jesus a New Vision

Book Review of E.P Sanders’ book on Paul

Book Review of From Lament to Advocacy

Henry George information

Yonggi Cho’s speech and interview (translation)

Modern science