Jared's Web

It’s been so long since I’ve uploaded anything to my ‘blog’, I have almost forgotten how to use WordPress. A lot has happened since my last post – I’ve finished my doctorate at Melb Uni, I’ve just got back from three weeks overseas (two weeks at Oxford studying Latin with a Christ Church tutor, and [...]

[Read more →]

The wonderful Epistle of Barnabas from around 100 A.D. says that there are seven days of world history. One day is as a thousand years with the Lord. So there are 6000 years until the return of Christ. In Bishop Ussher’s chronology, the world commenced on the evening of September 20, 4004 B.C. Barnabas’s six [...]

[Read more →]

I just had the below published in the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies (thanks to my PhD supervisor, Ziva Shavitsky, for her support). It looks at the relationship between the Ten Commandments and the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It started life as a paper I did at Westminster Seminary for Tremper Longman. Oops – [...]

[Read more →]

I’m doing the course of the Psalter at PTC at the moment, and addressing the question of whether the Psalms are Messianic. The growing trend is to ‘read the Psalms in the light of the resurrection’. What that means is that the Psalms as written by their human authors were not Messianic. It seems to [...]

[Read more →]

It seems to me that there is something lacking in the study of Old Testament apocalyptic. The debate has focused on what apocalyptic is, whether Daniel wrote Daniel, and the relationship of apocalyptic to the prophets and wisdom tradition. But what about the question, ‘Why apocalyptic?’ Some answers are offered to this, but they are [...]

[Read more →]

This is a paper I wrote in 2006 for the Master of Arts in Theology course I am doing. It looks at the meaning of the name Yahweh in Exodus, in Exodus 3:12-15 and Exodus 6:2-5 and across the whole book, and suggests an outline for the whole book (two halves, Exodus 1-18 and 19-40, [...]

[Read more →]