Thinking out loud. Living on purpose. Field notes from a serious student of the ancient world the biblical authors actually inhabited — divine councils, cosmic cosmology, and the strangeness Western Christianity quietly smoothed over.

Field Notes — Where the Text Gets Strange

  • WHAT IS A KING–EPLILOGUE
    WHAT IS A KING–EPLILOGUE

    SERIESWhat Is a King? — Epilogue Epilogue How This Was Made and Who Made It Possible (Series: What Is a King? — Section 7 of 6) A Confession Before I Say Anything Else When I stepped back and read the…

  • WHAT IS A KING–WILL YOU BOW NOW?
    WHAT IS A KING–WILL YOU BOW NOW?

    BOW SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 6 of 6 Will You Bow Now? The Question the Series Has Been Asking (Series: What Is a King? — Section 6 of 6) Five Sections of Preparation We have walked through five…

  • WHAT IS A KING–THE WITNESS AND THE UNVEILING
    WHAT IS A KING–THE WITNESS AND THE UNVEILING

    SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 5 of 6 The Witness and the Unveiling Whose Job Is What (Series: What Is a King? — Section 5 of 6) The Weight You Are Carrying If you have followed this series this…

  • WHAT IS A KING–THE COUNTERFEIT KING
    WHAT IS A KING–THE COUNTERFEIT KING

    SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 4 of 6 The Counterfeit King How the Serpent Fakes the Recognition (Series: What Is a King? — Section 4 of 6) What This Section Is Doing Section 3 ended with a claim. You…

  • WHAT IS A KING–THE RETURN OF THE KING
    WHAT IS A KING–THE RETURN OF THE KING

    SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 3 of 6 The Returning King Aragorn and the Two-Stage Christ (Series: What Is a King? — Section 3 of 6) A Personal Note Before We Start The first two sections in this series…

  • WHAT IS A KING–SLAVE TO CHRIST
    WHAT IS A KING–SLAVE TO CHRIST

    SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 2 of 6 Slave of Christ The Lost Language of Belonging (Series: What Is a King? — Section 2 of 6) The Word We Cannot Hear Paul opens his letter to the Romans with…

  • WHAT IS A KING–THE ROOM DEFINES THE KING
    WHAT IS A KING–THE ROOM DEFINES THE KING

    SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 1 of 6 The Room Defines the King (Series: What Is a King? — Section 1 of 6) Pre-reading Before you go any further, watch this video by CinemaStix: [link to video]. The whole…

  • On the nature of the YAQOV unit
    On the nature of the YAQOV unit

    ⸸ Every archive eventually produces a record that resists filing. Not because the data is incomplete — because the compiler recognized something in it. This is the record of a man the Scholium Division keeps returning to. Not because he…

  • Terminological Index 001
    Terminological Index 001

    ⸸ Every translation loses something. The question is whether the archive is honest about what it lost. This index is the archive’s attempt to document the terms that resisted rendering — the words that carry more than the standard vocabulary…

  • Terminological Index 002
    Terminological Index 002

    ⸸ There is a Hebrew word — nephesh — that we usually translate as soul. But soul doesn’t quite hold it. This entry is the archive’s attempt to document what gets lost in that translation, and what the loss costs.…