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In-depth articles exploring biblical themes, historical connections, and scriptural insights.
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More Than Modern: The Ancient Roots of Hebrew Letter Traditions
Did the tradition of finding meaning in the Hebrew letters begin with medieval Kabbalah? The primary sources tell a different story — one that stretches back to the biblical period itself.
Understanding Your Old Testament: How Four Traditions Organize the Same Scriptures
The Jewish Tanakh, the Protestant Old Testament, the Catholic Bible, and the Latter-day Saint canon — same ancient texts, different arrangements, different stories. A guide to what you're holding when you open the scriptures.
The Thirteen Rules — How Ancient Rabbis Read Scripture (and Why It Matters for Latter-day Saints)
Rabbi Ishmael's thirteen hermeneutical principles — the rules Jesus used, Paul built his theology with, and Book of Mormon prophets employed without naming them.
Related: Week 25
Leadership & Governing
The Joseph Pattern: How God Renews His Covenants Across Dispensations
The story of Joseph of Egypt is not merely ancient biography — it is a prophetic map whose lines run forward with remarkable precision to Lehi's family, to Joseph Smith, and to us. Exploring how God embeds dispensational patterns into scripture as a recurring covenant language.
Related: Week 11
The Hidden King: Jehu, Athaliah, and the Rescue of David's Line
One of Scripture's most cinematic stories — scattered across four chapters and two books, so most readers never see it whole: Jehu's furious coup, Athaliah's murderous grab for the throne of David, and the infant Joash hidden six years in the temple. Reassembled in order, with the connections worth teaching.
Related: Week 28
The King We Asked For
How Israel moved from Moses' theocracy to the throne of David, why the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament view kingship so differently, and how both patterns point to Christ.
Related: Week 23, Week 24, Week 25
Wrestling with David
An honest reckoning with King David — his crimes, the women in his story, and the mercy that remembers Uriah by name.
Related: Week 25, Week 26
Music & Worship
David's Choir — How a Shepherd Organized the Music of Heaven
How David built Israel's Temple music institution — the Kohathite tradition, the 24 divisions, Hebrew song vocabulary, poetic forms, and why the creation narrative was sung every week.
Related: Week 24, Week 25
Music and the Spirit of Prophecy
When Miriam took up her timbrel after crossing the Red Sea, she wasn't simply leading a celebration — she was acting in her role as a prophetess, participating
Related: Week 16
The Voice at the Mountain: Biblical Instruments and the God Who Speaks in Sound
An exploration of the Hebrew terms for biblical musical instruments — from the divine shofar at Sinai to the bells on the High Priest's robe — and how Israel's encounter with God's voice shaped a musical tradition that runs from Genesis to Revelation.
Related: Week 17
Feasts & Covenants
Purim: Hidden Providence, Unlikely Deliverance
How the Jewish festival of Purim illuminates themes of divine providence, covenant faithfulness, and deliverance through unlikely channels — with connections to Psalm 22 and the Passover.
Related: Week 10
Sealed with Seven: The Covenant Number Across Scripture
From the Sabbath to Pharaoh's dreams, from Be'er Sheva to the seven Moedim, the number seven runs through Hebrew scripture as a recurring covenant token — always pointing toward the One who would fulfill every divine oath completely.
Related: Week 11
Alma 5: The Nephite Seder — A 15-Step Pattern of Repentance and Redemption
A structured reading of Alma 5 through the lens of the Passover Seder — mapping each of the 15 traditional steps to Alma's prophetic call to repentance, sanctification, and acceptance before God.
Related: Week 27
The Four Cups and the Wedding Covenant: Passover as Prophetic Marriage
How the four cups of Passover, the seven feast days, and the kinsman redeemer reveal God's covenant with Israel as a marriage — from the Seder table to the Second Coming.