Tag Archives: Messiah

Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God

By David Larsen | Published: October 27, 2011
Last night I had the opportunity to listen to Professor Tom Wright (a.k.a. N.T. Wright) give his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity here at the University of St Andrews. Professor Wright has actually been at the university a year now and has previously given major public addresses here, but I guess this [...]
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“Beside Me There is No Saviour”: Old Testament Lesson 38

By David Larsen | Published: October 12, 2010
Isaiah 40-49 Sorry for the dearth of posts recently — the semester at St Andrews has now started up and I have found myself overwhelmed trying to set a new schedule and routine for myself.  Among the various things I’m doing this semester, I am very excited about sitting in on Jim Davila’s Book of [...]
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“Thou Hast Done Wonderful Things” (OT Lesson 37)

By David Larsen | Published: September 25, 2010
Isaiah 22; 24-26; 28-30 With this lesson we have skipped chapters 7-21 of Isaiah (many of which are quoted in the Book of Mormon, so that may be part of the reason) and moved on to chapter 22.  The chapters covered in this lesson contain many symbols and themes that we can interpret as prefiguring [...]
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Notes on Early Jewish Belief in a Messiah

By David Larsen | Published: April 28, 2010
The following is from some notes that I took in Professor Jim Davila’s class on the Dead Sea Scrolls this week. I sit in on this undergraduate class of his just to get more exposure to his great knowledge and expertise on this topic. The way the class is set up, at least at this [...]
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The Psalms in the Ritual: Aage Bentzen, Part Two

By David Larsen | Published: April 28, 2009
In my last post, I provided a look at Aage Bentzen’s King and Messiah, focusing on his review and summarization of research on the psalms and how some scholars began to see in them a pattern that seemed to define an ancient Israelite ritual that involved the king’s participation in a ritualized drama that portrayed [...]
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King and Messiah in the Psalms: From the Work of Aage Bentzen

By David Larsen | Published: April 23, 2009
For a few decades in the beginning-to-middle of the 20th century, a very interesting approach to looking at the Psalms of the Old Testament was launched, especially in Europe.  This approach, unfortunately, has fallen somewhat out of favor, and perhaps never fully caught on here in the U.S.  The approach I am referring to is [...]
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Insights from Margaret Barker’s “Temple Themes in Christian Worship”: Part II

By David Larsen | Published: June 6, 2008
     Christians: Heirs of the True Temple This next installment of my analysis of Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship is taken from both chapters 2 and 3: “Temple and Synagogue,” and “Sons and Heirs.” In these chapters, Barker continues with her theme of the secret temple tradition and its importance to Christianity. She looks at [...]
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