Matthew Michael

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight emerging salient patterns in the praxis and expressions of African Christianity, which resonate with the specific trends and trajectories of the reformation, and its indebtedness to this important heritage.

TL;DR: In modern times, Christian theology has increasingly become a "mission field" itself because its "intellectual space" has largely marginalized the missions mandate of the local church as discussed by the authors. But this is not the case in the Bible.

TL;DR: The traditional readings of the book of Ruth normally treat Orpah either in the semi-category of a villain or a full-fledged villain who turned her back on Naomi, monotheism, and the messianic lineage and hence disappeared from the sacred history into polytheism as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the narrator of 1 Sam 14:24-15:35 employs the popular Achan traditions in his scathing polemics against the Saulides, and leaves literary clues within the text itself that point to his representation of Saul as Achan.

TL;DR: The authors describes the consistent literary patterns in the representation of angry scenes in Hebrew narrative, and particularly identifies the different stages in biblical angry exchange scenes, including the description of provocation, the presence of anger-designated markers, the expression of questioning/conversation, and the consummation of the angry scene by a reference to an action plan, the pacification of an angry character or the resolution of the process.