Brian ChilcoteOct 25, 20226 minHermeneuticsUnwritten Rules and the Bible- Hermeneutics 4Don't expect your meeting at a Venezuelan coffee shop to start on time. It's rude to expect anything less than 15 minutes past the...
Brian ChilcoteOct 20, 20226 minHermeneuticsWellhausen's Big IdeaThe Great Isaiah Scroll, part of the collection of documents discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls trove is 23 feet long and contains 54...
Brian ChilcoteOct 14, 20227 minHermeneuticsTwo More Hermeneutics"On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!” Quoth the Raven...
Brian ChilcoteOct 11, 20227 minHermeneuticsHerman Who? An Introduction to Hermeneutics Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word that describes how we derive meaning from texts. Rendering thoughts into language, recording and...
Brian ChilcoteOct 6, 20225 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 6: Implications for Interpretation Rhetoric… So what? What are the implications for us, modern readers of the Gospel of John? And what might be of value in applying ancient...
Brian ChilcoteOct 6, 20225 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 5: The Gospel of John meets CiceroIt has been suggested that the gospel of John is organized similarly to a Ciceronian argument in a court of law (Cicero was a well known...
Brian ChilcoteOct 5, 20226 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 4 Literary DevicesWhile only a few privileged denizens of antiquity had access to an education in rhetoric, nearly everyone experienced it in some way as...
Brian ChilcoteOct 4, 20224 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions Part 3: Why is it Important to Know Something About Rhetoric?Would you build a theological doctrine on a peroration element? Hopefully, you'd think twice since the peroration is all about an...
Brian ChilcoteOct 4, 20224 minRhetoricRhetorical Questions, Part 2: How to Win an Argument the Greco-Roman WaySo you want to convince a judge, jury or marketplace crowd to support your policy, vote for your candidate or find your client not...