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Item Food and Wine as Seductress to Doom, Even if the Sleeping is with One’s Own Wife! A Translation Note on 2 Sam 11.8b(2015-04-01) Cole, RossIn most translations of 2 Sam 11.8b the nuanced similarity of the two clauses is lost. Often the translation of the second clause depicts the king actively sending משאת המלך out after Uriah, even though the king is not the subject of the verb. It has been suggested that משאת המלך refers to a signaller who goes out to spy on Uriah. It is more likely that the reference is to the gift of the king, ambiguously personified as a woman seeking to seduce the hapless Uriah from his duty.
Item Genesis 1:14 - Translation Notes(2007-01-01) Cole, RossThe purpose of these notes is twofold: first, to evaluate John H. Sailhamer's argument that Gen 1:14 does not place the creation of the heavenly lights on the fourth day of Creation; and second, to determine whether the term "appointed times" in Gen 1:14 is used to designate annual sacred times or particular rhythms of the natural cycle.
Item Genesis: Introduction to the Canon and to Biblical Theology(2012-01-01) Cole, RossItem Hermeneutics, Intertextuality and the Contemporary Meaning of Scripture(2014-01-01) Petersen, Paul B.; Cole, Ross’Did Matthew ”twist” the Scriptures?’ ’Where did Satan come from?’ ’My Reading? Your Reading? Author (-ity) and Postmodern Hermeneutics.’ ’Paul and Moses: Hermeneutics from the Top Down.’ Learning from Ellen White’s Perception and Use of Scripture: Toward An Adventist Hermeneutic For The Twenty-First Century. Questions and issues like these are presented in this selection of papers and presentations from a Bible conference at Avondale College on the broad topic of intertextuality. More than 100 scholars and administrators convened and shared their research as well as their personal perspectives on how to read and apply holy Scripture in the 21st century. This anthology contains a representative sample of their studies and reflections [from publisher website].
Item Indeed None Better(2016-07-01) Cole, RossHebrews repeatedly affirms that there is none better than Jesus. This chapter explores the background to these affirmations provided by the Old Testament understanding of what is good, better and best. It does so under five headings: The Things That Are Good; The Goodness of God; The Relativity of Different Goods; Goodness as Righteous Behaviour; and Why Rules Cannot Be Enough. The chapter concludes by looking at Jesus in the light of the Old Testament portray of goodness and concurring with the writer of Hebrews, that there is indeed none better!
Item It's about the Survivors(2002-05-18) Cole, RossThis article discusses maintaining the commandments of God and keeping the faith of Jesus in a world that will not survive.
Item Reading Genesis in the 21st Century(2012-03-24) Cole, RossDr Ross Cole examines reading Genesis in the 21st century in this Avondale College Seventh-day Adventist Church-sponsored seminar.
Item The Christian and Time-keeping in Colossians 2:16 and Galatians 4:10(2001-10-01) Cole, RossTraditionally, Col2:16 and Gal 4: 10 are understood as the negation of Christian observance of Jewish time-keeping schemes, including Sabbath observance. However, Troy Martin has recently proposed radical reinterpretations of these two verses, which are consistent with the continued Christian observance of the Jewish religious calendar.' For Martin, the major problem with the traditional interpretations of Col 2:16 and Gal 4:lO is that each verse is understood in terms of the other, i.e., Gal 4:10 is read as confirmation that the evaluation of the Jewish calendrical list in Col 2:16 is negative, while Col 2:16 is read as confirmation that the calendar of Gal 4: 10 is Jewish rather than pagan? However, Martin argues that the critics of the Christian church in Colossae were probably not condemning the Colossians for failing to keep the Jewish calendar. Instead, they may have been condemning them for continuing to observe it.) Likewise, Martin contends that Paul is condemningpagan rather than Jewish observances in Gal 4:10.4 The purpose of this article is to evaluate each claim in turn.
Item The Language of Appointment to Offices and Roles in Scripture(2015-01-01) Cole, RossA study of the language of appointment to offices and roles in Scripture contributes to a theology of such appointment and suggests several ways in which these appointments may be ritually celebrated and the language in which they can be profitably described. However, it nowhere suggests the concept of ordination itself.
Item The Pros and Cons of Intertextuality(2014-01-01) Cole, RossAn exploration of the pros and cons of intertextuality as a way of understanding Scripture. Historical Criticism has often been seen as the domain of liberal approaches to exegesis, but evangelicals may become the rightful heirs of this approach as liberalism diminishes the place of history in understanding Scripture in favour of more literary subjective approaches.
Item The Sabbath and Genesis 2:1-3(2003-01-01) Cole, RossThe Creation account of Gen 1:l-2:3 climaxes with the description of events connected with the seventh day in Gen 2:I-3:' 1. And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their hosts. 2. And on the seventh day God declared finished his work that he had done, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his work that he had made.2 3. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it he ceased from all his work that God created and made. There is general agreement that the weekly Sabbath is at least partly in view in Gen 2:l-3.' The more controverted point is whether it is presented as a Creation ordinance, i.e., as something commanded for human beings to keep from the beginning of human history.
Item The Sabbath and the Alien(2000-01-01) Cole, RossMany scholars in modern Judaism have discerned universal dimensions to the Sabbath.' However, few writers in earlier Judaism ever saw them.2 It is almost superfluous to add that non-Sabbatarian Christians have rarely seen these dimensions either. This failure to see universal dimensions may seem surprising, for three passages in the Pentateuch affirm that the 11, "resident alien," is to rest on the weekly Sabbath, along with the Israelite (Exod 20: 10; 23: 12; Deut 5: 14). However, rabbinic Judaism has traditionally identified the py in these passages as the ger saddzq, the circumcised "righteous alien," rather than the ger toshab, the uncircumcised "sojourning alien." The ger saddiq was a newcomer to Jewish territory, but not to the Jewish religion.)
Item The Shabuim of Dan 9:24-27 - Weeks, Sevens or Weeks of Years(2014-01-01) Cole, RossIn Dan 9:24, the word shabuim has been variously translated as “weeks,” “sevens,” or “weeks of years,” various schools of interpretation generally preferring though rarely requiring one translation or the other for support. In terms of its root relationships and nominal pattern, it is clear that the singular word has the basic meaning of a unit of seven. On the other hand, it is never used in such a way that there is any doubt about what elements comprise the unit. This fact goes against the suggestion that shabuim should here be translated as “sevens.” In all previous instances in Biblical Hebrew, shabuim means a week of days. However, the distinctive use of the masculine plural form in Dan 9:24 suggests that a different nuance may be present here. The chiasmus between vss. 2 and 24 and the background of both verses in the cycle of annual sabbaths confirm that weeks of years are here in view. Suggestions are made as to how best to translate shabuim since the expression “of years” is not found in the original.
Item Trouble in Paradise: One Christian Denomination’s Contemporary Struggle Reconciling Science and Belief(2015-01-04) Cole, RossProposed amendments to Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Belief No. 6 represent an attempt to define acceptable Adventist understandings of creation more tightly and to exclude alternative viewpoints in a creedal fashion. In particular, there appears to be an attempt to exclude anything but a young age for life. One question which may be asked is whether the proposed amendments are in fact sufficient to exclude unwanted views, since there are models which allow for a creation week consisting of seven consecutive, contiguous, literal, twenty-four days, yet which accommodate current scientific understandings in ways recent creationism finds uncomfortable. While group identity is important, a focus on the formulation of tighter belief statements as a means of defining heretics will do little to bring resolution. Such documents can all too easily become primarily instruments of power and exclusion. They indicate a shift in focus from the core of a community’s identity to its borders and that is no advance. Listening to one another may not always bring unanimity of opinion but it should both foster respect and facilitate a deeper and more productive unity than mere uniformity could ever bring.