New Testament Special Topics by Dr. Bob Utley

SPECIAL TOPICS
By Dr. Bob Utley, Professor of Hermeneutics

The following Special Topics are taken from our verse by verse commentaries. They deal with

1. Word studies

2. Theological issues

3. Hermeneutical issues

4. Cultural issues

5. Geographical issues

6. “Hot button” issues in the church today

We hope this will be a quick way for you to access these topics.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

"Abiding" in John's Writings
Abomination
Abomination of Desolation
Abound (periseuō)
Additions to Deuteronomy
Adoptionism
Adultery
Age
Age of Accountability
Age and Formation of Earth
This Age and the Age to Come
Alcohol – Alcoholism
Almsgiving
Amen
Amorite
Ancient Near Eastern Calendars
Ancient Near East Weights and Volumes
Angels and the Demonic
Angels in Paul's Writings
The Angel of the Lord
Anointing in the Bible
Anthropomorphic Language to describe God
Any Moment Return of Christ vs. Not Yet
Apocalyptic Literature
Apostasy (aphistēmi)
Apostle's Names
Archē
Ark of the Covenant
Arminianism
Ascension
Assurance (also see "Christian Assurance")
Author/Leader
Authority (exousia)

Baptism
Barnabas
Be Made Strong
Believe (noun, verb, adjective)
Believe (pisteuō) in John
Believe, Trust, Faith, and Faithfulness in the OT
Believers' Inheritance
Bernice
Blameless
Blessing
Boasting
Bob's Evangelical Biases
Body and Spirit
Boldness (parrhēsia)
The Two Books
Breath, Wind, Spirit
Burial Practices
Burial Spices

Called
Calvinism
Canon (Hebrew)
Characteristics of Israel's God
Chariots
Chart of the Apostles Names
Cherubim
The Christian and Peace
Christian Assurance
Christian Freedom vs Christian Responsibility
Christian Growth
Christianity Is Corporate
Church (ekklesia)
Coins in Use in Palestine in Jesus' Day
Comfort
Coming On the Clouds
Confession
Conscience
Consequences of Idolatry
City of Corinth
Cornerstone
Covenant
Covenant Promises to the Patriarchs
YHWH's Covenant Requirements of Israel
Cremation
Crucial Introductory Articles to NT Apocalyptic
Cubit
Curse (anathema)

Date of the Exodus
Day (Yom)
That Day
The Dead, Where Are They? (Sheol/Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus)
The Deity of Christ from the OT
Degrees of Rewards and Punishment
The Demonic (unclean spirits)
The Demonic in the OT
Destroy, Ruin, Corrupt (phtheirō)
Destruction (apollumi)
The Disciples' Questions
Divisions of the Hebrew Bible
Does Any Believer Ever Fall Away?
Use of "Door" in the NT

Eastern Literature
Eden
Edify Edom and Israel
Effective Prayer
Eighth Century Prophets (the historical setting)
Elder
Election
Election/Predestination and the Need for A Theological Balance
End or Full (telos)
Eschatology
Eternal
Evidence (NT) of One's Salvation
Exodus 20:12-16
Exorcism

Faith (pistis)
The Faithful Remnant
The Fall
Falling From Grace?
Fasting
Father
Fatherhood of God
Feasts of Israel
Fertility Worship of the Ancient Near East
Fire
Firstborn
Flesh (sarx)
Food Laws (see OT Food Laws)
Foolish (terms)
Forever (Greek idiom)
Forever ('olam)
Forgiveness in the OT
Form (tupos)
Forty-Two Months

Gamaliel
Gehenna (Where Are the Dead?)
Generous/Sincere (haplotes)
Giants
Glory (apaugasma)
Glory (doxa)
Gnosticism
God Described As Human (anthropomorphism)
God Hardened
God's Plan for Redemption
God Tests His People
Government
The Greatest Commandment
Greek Terms for Testing and Their Connotations
Grieving Rites
Guarantee

Hades
Haggai
Hand
Hang
Head (kephalē)
Healing
Heart
Heaven
The Heavens and the Third Heaven
Hebrew Grammar
Hebrew Poetry
Hermeneutical Approach to Genesis 1-11
Herod and His Family
Herodians
Historical Allusions to Persian Kings
Hittite Treaties
Holy
The Holy One
Homosexuality
Hope
Horns Used By Israel
The Hour
Human Sexuality
Human Speech
Hunger
Hypocrites

Illumination
Inspiration
Intercessory Prayer
Insights to Exodus 20:12-16
Interpreting Parables
Is Healing God's Plan for Every Age?
Iscariot
Israel (the name)
Israel's Mandated Response to Canaanite Fertility Worship

James, the Half Brother of Jesus
Jesus and the Spirit
Jesus As High Priest
The Any-Moment Return of Jesus vs The Not Yet
Jesus the Nazarene
Jesus' Post-resurrection Appearances
Jesus' Return
John 1 Compared to I John 1
John 6 (The Lord's Supper in John)
John's Use of Believe with prepositions
Judge, Judgment, Justice (שׁפט) in Isaiah
Judging (Should Christians Judge One Another?)

The Kerygma of the Early Church
The Kingdom of God
Kings of the Divided Monarchy
Kings of Egypt
Kings of Greece
Kings of Mesopotamia
Know
Koinōnia (fellowship)
Kosmos (in Paul)
Ktisis

Land, Country, Earth (ארץ)
Laying on of Hands
Leaven
Lions in the Old Testament
Location of Mt Sinai
Logos (Word)
Lord of Hosts
The Lord Hardened
The Lord's Supper in John 6
The Lord's Supper (order of Passover Service)
Lovingkindness (Hesed)

Matthew 27:9
Medo-Persian Empire Survey of the Rise of Cyrus II
Magic
Maranatha
Messiah
Molech
Monotheism
Moon Worship
Mosaic Law and the Christian
Moses' Authorship of the Pentateuch
Mount Sinai (Location)
Murder
Mystery in the Gospels
Mystery in Paul's Writings

Names for Deity
The Name of the Lord
"The Name" of YHWH
Natural Resources
The Number Twelve
Nazarene
Nazarite Vow
The Need to Persevere
NT Prophecy
NT Terms for Christ's Return
The Night Trial of Jesus
Null and Void (katargeō)

OT Titles of the Special Coming One
The Old Testament as History
The Old Testament Food Laws
Old Testament Historiography Compared with Near Eastern Cultures
Old Testament Historical Narrative
Old Testament Predictions of the Future vs. New Testament Predictions
OT Prophecy

Parables, How to Interpret
Passover (Order of Service)
Paul's Admonitions to Slaves
Paul's Legal Defense (common elements in Acts)
Paul's Prayer, Praise, and Thanksgiving
Paul's Use of Huper Compounds
Paul's View of the Mosaic Law
Peace (different senses)
Peace (shalom)
Peace and War
Pentateuch Source Criticism (J, E, D, P)
Perseverance
Personal Evil
Personhood of the Spirit
Peter
Pharisees
Pontius Pilate
Poured Out
Possess the Land
Post Exilic Chart
Practical Guidelines for How Believers Can Know Their Gift
Praetorian Guard
Prayer (see Effective Prayer and Intercessory Prayer)
Prayer, Unlimited Yet Limited
Predestination
Predestination (Calvinism) vs Human Free Will (Arminianism)
Pre-Israelite Inhabitants of Palestine
The Problems and Limitations of Human Language
Prophet (the different Hebrew terms)
Prophecy (NT)
Prophecy (OT)
Punishment (see Degrees of Rewards and Punishment)

Qualifications for Female Church Workers

Racism
Ransom/Redeem
The Red Sea
Reigning in the Kingdom of God
The Remnant, Three Senses
Renew (anakainōsis)
Repentance
Repentance in the Old Testament
Resurrection
Rewards (see Degrees of Rewards and Punishment)
Righteousness
The Route of the Exodus

Sabbath
Sacrifices in Mesopotamia and Israel and Their Significance
Sacrificial Systems of the Ancient Near East
Sadducees
Saints
Salvation (Greek verb tenses)
Salvation (OT Term)
Sanctification
Sanhedrin
Satan
Satanic Attempts to Thwart the Messianic Line in Genesis
Schemes
Scribes
Seal
Second Coming
Send (apostellō)
Seraphim
The Serpent
Servant Leadership
Shadow As a Metaphor for Protection and Care
Shalom (peace)
Sheol (see Hades, Gehenna)
Should Christians Judge One Another?
Sin Unto Death
Silas – Silvanus
Slaves – Slavery
"Sons of.,"
Son of God
sons of God in Genesis 6
Son of Man
Sophists
Speech
The Spirit and Jesus
Spirit in the Bible
Spirit (pneuma) In the NT
Stand (histēmi)
Submission (hupotassō)
Suicide
Symbolic Numbers in Scripture

Tartarus (see Sheol)
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (see Exodus 20:13-17)
Tensions Between Old Covenant Prophetic Models and New Covenant Apostolic Models
Teraphim
Terms for Foolish People
Terms for God's Revelation
Terms for the Second Coming
Terms Used for Tall/Powerful Warriors or People Groups (Giants)
Testing (peirazō and dokimazō)
God Tests His People
Textual Criticism
Thanksgiving
That Day
Thousand (eleph)
Timothy
Tithing
Tithe in the Mosaic Legislation
Titles for the Special Coming One
Titus
Tribulation
The Trinity
Trust (faith)
Truth (the concept) in John's Writings
True (the term) in John's Writings.
Truth in Paul's Writings
Typology
Twelve
The Two "Cities" of Isaiah

The Unpardonable Sin
Use of "Commandment" in John's Writings

Vices and Virtues

War in Heaven
Weakness
Wealth
Weights and Volumes
What Is Sin Unto Death?
Where Are The Dead? (Sheol/Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus)
Why Do Christians Suffer?
Why Do OT Covenant Promises Seem so Different from NT Covenant Promises?
Why God Clothed Adam and Eve with Animal Skins
Why Are End-time Events so Controversial?
The Wildernesses of the Exodus
The Will (thelēma) of God
Wine and Strong Drink
Wisdom Literature
Witnesses to Jesus
Women in the Bible
Women in Ministry
Women Keep Silent
The Women Who Followed Jesus
Women Who Traveled With Jesus and His Disciples
Wonderful Things (פלא)
Worship

YHWH's Covenant Requirements of Israel
YHWH's Grace Acts to Israel
YHWH Hardened
Yom (day)

Zechariah