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Judges portrays Israel as the land of the walking dead, but the book also provides an autopsy. How did the people of the land pass from life to death? The report is dark but deeply hopeful. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/08/t...
The Judges Autopsy
Judges portrays Israel as the land of the walking dead, but the book also provides an autopsy. What went wrong? How did the people of the land pass from life to death? The author’s report is fronte…
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February 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Judges portrays Israel as the land of the walking dead, but the book also provides an autopsy. How did the people of the land pass from life to death? The report is dark but deeply hopeful. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/08/t...
In the book of Judges, a priestly theme runs through the stories to highlight Israel’s descent into death. Jephthah offers up his only child as an ascension offering. This is the death knell. In Judges, Israel becomes the land of the walking dead. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/07/j...
Jephthah’s Descension Offering
God gave Israel a priesthood and sacrifice rituals to lead them into his life-giving presence. In the book of Judges, a priestly theme runs through the stories to highlight Israel’s descent into de…
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February 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
In the book of Judges, a priestly theme runs through the stories to highlight Israel’s descent into death. Jephthah offers up his only child as an ascension offering. This is the death knell. In Judges, Israel becomes the land of the walking dead. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/07/j...
Deborah and Barak sing about “God’s righteousness,” and in the context of Judges 5, "righteousness" clearly means God’s mighty acts of salvation. This is one of many places in the Old Testament that helps make sense of Paul’s thesis statement in Romans 1:16–17. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/07/s...
Singing the Gospel of God’s Righteousness
Deborah and Barak sing about “God’s righteousness,” and in the context of Judges 5, “righteousness” clearly means God’s mighty acts of salvation. This is one of many places in the Old T…
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February 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Deborah and Barak sing about “God’s righteousness,” and in the context of Judges 5, "righteousness" clearly means God’s mighty acts of salvation. This is one of many places in the Old Testament that helps make sense of Paul’s thesis statement in Romans 1:16–17. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/07/s...
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Sahidic Coptic
Begin your journey in Sahidic Coptic. This open access textbook offers essential grammar and readings for understanding Coptic texts.
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January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
A new #OpenAccess textbook for Sahidic Coptic!
#Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky
#AncientBlueSky #LangSky
uclpress.co.uk/book/sahidic...
#Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky
#AncientBlueSky #LangSky
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We sometimes think and talk as if cross-bearing is the ultimate goal. It’s not. The cross wasn’t the goal for Jesus, and it’s not the goal for his disciples. Self-denial and cross-bearing is the pathway to the door of resurrection and the goal of new creation. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/01/s...
Suffering is Not the Goal: Following Jesus into New Creation in Luke 9
We sometimes think and talk as if cross-bearing — following Jesus in self-sacrifice — is the ultimate goal. It’s not. The cross wasn’t the goal for Jesus, and it’s not the goal for his disciples ei…
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February 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
We sometimes think and talk as if cross-bearing is the ultimate goal. It’s not. The cross wasn’t the goal for Jesus, and it’s not the goal for his disciples. Self-denial and cross-bearing is the pathway to the door of resurrection and the goal of new creation. brianwdavidson.com/2026/02/01/s...
Luke is showing you that resurrection is not just a metaphor. Through the Messiah’s mission, which includes physical death and physical, bodily resurrection, Israel is being called home, to him. They will follow him through their own death and resurrection. brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/31/l...
Luke 9: The Messianic King is Resurrecting Israel
Who do they say I am? Who do you say I am? Jesus asks his disciples these questions in all three synoptic Gospels (Matt 16:13–20; Mark 8:27–30; Luke 9:18–21), but Luke’s version of this story shows…
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January 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Luke is showing you that resurrection is not just a metaphor. Through the Messiah’s mission, which includes physical death and physical, bodily resurrection, Israel is being called home, to him. They will follow him through their own death and resurrection. brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/31/l...
For the author of Hebrews, the ability and willingness to think figurally about the Old Testament is desperately important and utterly practical. brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/30/h...
Hebrews: Reading the OT Figurally is Desperately Important
The author of Hebrews makes clear what he is doing with Melchizedek. This is something I was excited to talk to colleagues about today as we prepped a lesson on Jesus’s ascension and priesthood. Ta…
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January 30, 2026 at 11:46 PM
For the author of Hebrews, the ability and willingness to think figurally about the Old Testament is desperately important and utterly practical. brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/30/h...
Four reasons why I enjoy the THGNT-ESV Diglot brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/29/t...
The THGNT-ESV Diglot
There are four reasons why I have enjoyed and highly recommend the Tyndale House GNT-ESV Diglot. (1) The Greek text is clean and a pleasure to read, (2) the amount of Greek text on the page — due t…
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January 30, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Hearing and Doing in Luke and James brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/27/h...
Hearing and Doing in Luke & James
Yesterday, I posted about the way Luke and James use their words to drive their audience towards becoming whole people, people who are like Jesus. I want to highlight one more distinctive connectio…
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January 27, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Mark 1–4: The Secret of the Kingdom Illustrated with Words and Actions brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/26/m...
Mark 1–4: The Secret of the Kingdom Illustrated with Words and Actions
At the end of Mark 4, lies a story that illustrates what Mark calls “the secret of the kingdom” (Mark 4:11). In this story, Jesus sleeps in a boat filled with incoming, crashing waves. Just a bit l…
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January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels?
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January 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM
How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels?
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Luke's Implied Reader and James's τέλειος ἀνήρ brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/26/l...
Luke’s Implied Reader and James’s τέλειος ἀνήρ
Yesterday, in summarizing Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, I kept thinking about how similar Luke’s version of the Sermon is to the book of James. I want to show you a connection I saw this morning that…
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January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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The Prepared Person brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/25/t...
The Prepared Person: A Summary of Jesus’s Sermon in Luke
According to Luke, the only person who is ready to weather life and the afterlife (6:48–49) is the person who follows Jesus and becomes like him. There is no disciple who is better than his teacher…
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January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The Prepared Person brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/25/t...
Several reasons why I prefer taking Bible notes in Google Docs brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/25/b...
Bible Notes in Google Docs
My favorite way to take Bible notes is to use Google Docs. In this post, I’ll explain several reasons why Google Docs is preferable to other options.1 I’ve tried a lot of different ways of taking n…
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January 25, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Several reasons why I prefer taking Bible notes in Google Docs brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/25/b...
Jeremiah 4: Hope against Hope brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/24/j...
Jeremiah 4: Hope against Hope
Jeremiah 4 is a message of hope against hope. Disaster is imminent (4:5–28) and unchangeable, and yet repentance still does something miraculous (4:1). God is still dedicated to the covenant he mad…
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January 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Jeremiah 1–2: The Prevalence of Hevel and the Life of God brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/17/j...
Jeremiah 1–2: The Prevalence of Hevel and the Life of God
Hevel is what Ecclesiastes laments — emptiness, nothingness. Utter nothingness (hevel). Everything is nothingness (hevel). (Ecclesiastes 1:2) We live in a world permeated by a movement from life to…
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January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Haggai's Distinctive Message brianwdavidson.com/2026/01/11/h...
Haggai’s Distinctive Message
My goal in this post is to walk through the book of Haggai and highlight its distinctive message within the Minor Prophets. Haggai has two major movements: First, he speaks Yahweh’s word to a peopl…
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January 11, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Every time I struggle with a book of Scripture and think, "Ugh. Maybe there really is nothing good to see in this one" I'm proven wrong by lingering over it and rereading. Over the past couple weeks that book has been Zephaniah, but I had a breakthrough today. Blog post incoming, of course.
January 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Every time I struggle with a book of Scripture and think, "Ugh. Maybe there really is nothing good to see in this one" I'm proven wrong by lingering over it and rereading. Over the past couple weeks that book has been Zephaniah, but I had a breakthrough today. Blog post incoming, of course.
Mark: An Overview brianwdavidson.com/2025/12/31/m...
Mark: An Overview
This post is a chapter-by-chapter overview of the Gospel of Mark. I’m trying to highlight in my own words the distinctive way each chapter moves the story forward. Chapter 1: Behold, Isaiah’s king …
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December 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mark: An Overview brianwdavidson.com/2025/12/31/m...
Echoes of Cain in the Book of Habakkuk brianwdavidson.com/2025/12/31/e...
Echoes of Cain in the Book of Habakkuk
Over the years, I’ve made various “echoes of Cain” posts: Echoes of Cain in Psalm 56 Echoes of Cain in the Story of Jonah Echoes of Cain in the Prophecy of Isaiah I want to add one more here from H…
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December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Echoes of Cain in the Book of Habakkuk brianwdavidson.com/2025/12/31/e...
The Christmas Story in Mark 12 brianwdavidson.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Christmas Story in Mark 12
Give back to God what belongs to God. (Mark 12:17) In those words above, lies the heart of the Christmas story. I don’t think it’s just because I’m reading Mark 12 and writing this post on Christma…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Christmas Story in Mark 12 brianwdavidson.com/2025/12/24/t...