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Jephthah’s Study of Judges 11

Did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter or dedicate her to lifelong service? A full read of Judges 11: the outcast warrior, the rash vow, and the silence of God, working through Wilcock and Block on what the text actually says.

Moses at the Threshold: The Circumcision Crisis

Exodus 4:24-26 is one of the strangest passages in the Torah. Yahweh attacks Moses on the road to Egypt, and Zipporah stops it with a flint knife and a covenant act. A divine council reading of why the household had to come first, and where the Hebrew refuses to settle.

ABBA, Father

You have probably heard a sermon claim that Abba means "Daddy." That idea traces back largely to Joachim Jeremias in the mid-twentieth century, and it has stuck in popular preaching ever since. But the case does not hold up, and what the word actually means is something heavier.