A Bible Study Toolbox for Catholics

Some Interpretive Principles

• The Four Senses of Sacred Scripture– Catechism of the Catholic Church or here to listen to an 8 minute podcast on the same topic.
• Science and the Old Testament – from the Fathers and the Magisterium
• On Violence in the Old Testament
• The Bible Alone? Part I and Part 2
• Handling Bible Difficulties

Genesis

• The Six Days of Creation
• One Flesh
• The Song of the Sword
• The Fear of Isaac
• Forty Days

Exodus

• A Jealous God
• On the Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart
• The Tent of Meeting
• The Hilasterion
• Do Catholics Worship Statues?

Numbers

• The Daughters of Zelo’phehad
• Unto the Third and Fourth Generation

Joshua

• Achan’s Plunder – and Blunder
• Rahab, Spies, and Lies

Judges

• Gideon’s Sword
• The gods of Canaan
• On Jephthah’s Rash Oath

1 Samuel

• The Witch of Endor
• The Battle is the Lord’s

2 Samuel

• On the Death of King David’s Baby

Ruth

• Ruth, Boaz, and the Coming of the King

Psalms

• On the Curses of the Psalms
• On Death in the Psalms

Isaiah

• The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Jeremiah

• By the Waters of Babylon
• On False Prophets
• As a Prize of War

2 Maccabees

• Why Maccabees?

The Gospel of Matthew

• “We have seen His star in the east.”
• Does “turn the other cheek” mean that Christians are to be doormats?

The Gospel of Mark

• “What do you want me to do for you?”
• “But who do you say that I am?”
• Abba, Father

The Gospel of Luke

• Mary, the New Ark of the Covenant
• “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother…”

The Gospel of John

• Jesus and the Divine Name
• Some Spit and Some Clay
• Six for Six
• What Did the Fathers Say?

St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans

• Abba, Father

St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

• Abba, Father

The Letter to the Hebrews

• Gideon’s Sword
• On Jephthah’s Rash Oath

Miscellaneous

• A Biblical Case for Clerical Celibacy
• On the Resurrected Body
• Do Catholics Worship Statues?
• Praying to Saints?