Starting Time Individual commentary by Ittai Weinryb … in The Philosophical Review, 46.5: 503–12 … Giovanni di Paolo … Read by Ben Quash … Giovanni di Paolo … The Creation …
Even the Smallest Things Comparative commentary by Marisa Bass … that ‘all flesh will bless his holy name’ (v.21). Are all living creatures capable of praising God’s works and the … all this beauty. ( On the Psalms 145: 12) Augustine was not alone in querying humankind’s relation to nature’s most … Anne. 2019. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Hendrix, …
Getting One’s Comeuppance Individual commentary by Rembrandt Duits … Schmölders, Claudia. 2009. Hitler’s Face: The Biography of an Image , trans. by Adrian Daub (Philadelphia: …
Thunder Silenced Individual commentary by Ian Boxall … until it can be made known (e.g. Daniel 12:4; 4 Ezra 14:26, 45–46). Here, by contrast, sealing up prevents the thunders’ message from … presence (e.g. Job 37:4–5; Psalm 29:3 )? Or do they represent divine judgments, like the trumpet plagues visualized on …
Apostolic Rivals Individual commentary by Ian Boxall … ‘Lord, what about this man?’ (John 21:21). Peter’s question hints at a rivalry which has bubbled … , acting as mediator between Peter and Jesus (13:23–25). He had enabled Peter’s access into the high priest’s …
A Royal Priesthood Individual commentary by Katherine Sonderegger … a believer will ‘have God’s approval’ (1 Peter 2:20). These are the rejected ones—‘ living stones ’ (2:5), 1 Peter calls them—who will become corner stones; ‘no-people’ who …
Covenant and Conundrum Comparative commentary by Tom L. Freudenheim … This powerful Abraham story (Genesis 18, 21, 22) is a key text for both Judaism and Christianity. Jews …
The First Fratricide Comparative commentary by Nicholas Cranfield … is later killed by his kinsman, Lamech (Genesis 4:23). The narrative is almost exactly rehearsed in the Qur’an (Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:27–31). The Bible is no stranger to sibling rivalries; they scar its … is duped out of his inheritance by Jacob (Genesis 28) and the creation of the Golden Calf strains the relationship …
Loving Without Seeing Individual commentary by Rebekah Eklund … and has told Peter and John the astonishing news ( John 20:1–2 ). Swiss painter Eugène Burnand (1851–1921) shows the two disciples running to Jesus’s tomb to see for …