A Journey Through the Scriptures

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
• A Brief History of the Latin Vulgate

Genesis

• On Eden
• The Six Days of Creation
• On Eden and the Temple
• One Flesh
• Who was Cain’s Wife?
• 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?
• A Kingdom of Priests
• Miriam, the Prophetess
• The Horns of Moses

Leviticus

• On Ezekiel’s “laws that were not good”
• Outside the Camp

Numbers

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

Deuteronomy

• On Servile Work
• On Ezekiel’s “laws that were not good”

Joshua

• Achan’s Plunder – and Blunder
• Rahab, Spies, and Lies
• The Song of the Ark

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

1 Kings

• On Eden and the Temple

Ruth

• Ruth, Boaz, and the Coming of the King

Psalms

• On the Curses of the Psalms
• On Death in the Psalms
• The Song of the Ark
• The Priestly Blessing

Proverbs

• Proverbs and the Poor

Isaiah

• The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• The Songs of the Servant of YHWH

Jeremiah

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

Ezekiel

• On Ezekiel’s “laws that were not good”

Daniel

• The Abomination of Desolation
• Mene, Mene, Tekel and Upharsin

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 Abomination of Desolation
• A Eulogy of a Little Sister
• Muscipula Diaboli – the Devil’s Mousetrap

The Gospel of Mark

• “What do you want me to do for you?”
• “But who do you say that I am?”
• Abba, Father
• Muscipula Diaboli – the Devil’s Mousetrap

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?
• “Woman, what is that to me and to thee?”
• 153 Fish
• On Eden and the Temple
• The Lamb of God

Acts of the Apostles

• Parrésia: Boldness and the Holy Spirit in Acts

St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans

• Abba, Father
• A Kingdom of Priests
• Vessel of Honor

St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians

• The Horns of Moses

St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

• Abba, Father

St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians

• St. Paul’s Evangelical Suffering
• Dying to the Powers
• Muscipula Diaboli – the Devil’s Mousetrap

St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy

• Vessel of Honor
• A Prayer for Onesiphorus

The Letter to the Hebrews

• Gideon’s Sword
• On Jephthah’s Rash Oath
• The Song of the Ark
• Outside the Camp

First Letter of Peter

• A Kingdom of Priests

First Letter of John

• The Johannine Comma

The Book of Revelation

• A Kingdom of Priests

Miscellaneous

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