Tag: Isaiah 9
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Theologians & Economists: A Vision of Shalom
[Series Index] Earlier in this series, I said human beings build worlds to inhabit and infuse them with meaning. As God's image-bearers, that is simply what we do. But our world-building enterprise has become corrupted. Because of sin, there is always a mixture of goodness and idolatry in all we create. God's mission is about…
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Prosperity: Shalom
What do we mean by the word shalom? We typically equate shalom with the English word "peace." Unfortunately, we often insufficiently equate peace to the absence of war or anxiety. Shalom means so much more. Here are just a few ways shalom is used in the Old Testament. The words representing shalom are in bold.…
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Household: The Fictive “rosh to kephale” Exceptions in the Septuagint (Part 1)
The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek from the third through first centuries B.C.E. This translation became known as the Septuagint (LXX). As we saw earlier, in most cases where the Hebrew authors use the word rosh (head) metaphorically, it was not translated as kephale (head) in Greek. Rosh usually indicated "chief" or "ruler" when…
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Household: Jesus and Fictive Family (Part 3)
Characterizing God Over the last two posts, we have seen how Jesus used the idea of fictive family to talk about the relationship of his followers to each other and God. We have seen how Jesus casts God as the paterfamilias and us as his children. We become brothers and sisters of each other. But…
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Theology and Economics: Israel and the Coming Shalom
God's mission is renewal of shalom. What will this age of shalom look like? The vision was unveiled over time. First, I will look at the Old Testament vision of the coming age and then turn to the New Testament vision. God had promised Abraham that "…in you all the families of the earth shall…