Search
Now showing items 21-29 of 29
The Saddest Love Song
(2014)
Isaiah's Song of the Vineyard (Isaiah 5:1-7) is one of the most poignant parts of Scripture. In it Isaiah artfully depicts the tender care that the LORD poured out on his vineyard, Israel, as well as his sadness and anger ...
Exegetical Brief: Man or Servant in 2 Timothy 3:17?
(2014)
Professor Sorum examines the use of the phrase ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος in 2 Timothy and draws out many rich truths. The Greek phrase ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος is especially rich and precious in 2 Timothy 3:17. With it Paul powerfully ...
Turnaround Churches in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(2014-05)
There is crisis in the traditional American church. A multitude of churches that were once stable or thriving are now struggling and hoping to survive. Local ministry and denominational leaders, as well as church consultants, ...
The Protes’tant Controversy: Long-Lasting Reverberations of the Beitz Paper in the Dakota-Montana District
(Dakota-Montana District Pastors' Conference, 2014-04-29)
This work explores how the Beitz conference paper—delivered in Schofield, Wisconsin in 1926— ultimately affected the Dakota-Montana District of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod decades later. The first half of the ...
Allusion as Translation Problem: Portuguese Versions of Second Isaiah as Test Case
(2014)
An allusion in the source text poses a serious problem for a translator. A relevance-theoretic
approach would define an “allusion” as the re-use of language from a prior text such that, by calling
the prior text to mind, ...
Exegetical Brief: Did Job 'Repent'? (42:6)
(2014)
The book of Job is replete with hapax legomena, unusual spellings, vexing text-critical
questions, and highly compressed and elliptical constructions. Usually the main point is still
discernible, but many scholars have ...