Dec
11
A Finals' Week Reading from Nassim Taleb
As the academic season comes to its groundhog day, I can’t help but pass along this from Nassim Nicholas
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From My Bookshelf
Nov
30
What if Revelation was written by John...the Baptist?
The first step to writing a commentary is to question the traditional authorship. I don’t know why; it just
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Nov
14
Should We Back Off The Papyri?
Though a series of events I won’t get into here, I was reading Stan Porter’s paper, Why so
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Nov
01
Wallace: There Are 1,838 Differences Between Textus Receptus and the Majority Text
When I introduce New Testament transmission history and textual criticism, it is amazing to me that there will always be
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Oct
25
Go to the...bee!
In Septuagint class, we went over this section in Jobes and Silva that recounts a really interesting addition in the
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Sep
27
Fun Additions from the Dead Sea Scroll
Sitting in on a class exploring the Septuagint (usually abbreviated with the Roman numerals LXX), which is basically exploring the
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Sep
04
Why Don't We Care About the Text of Old Testament
One of the project I can’t wait to dive into is textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Right now,
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Aug
09
The Locusts (And Not Helicopters) of Revelation 9:7-11
Another interesting quote from Klein, Hubbard and Blomberg regarding Revelation 9:7-11.
Or again in 9:7-11, the bizarre description
Aug
02
Would That You Were Either Cold or Hot
As yet another example of the importance of historical context, Klein, Hubbard, and Blomberg (not sure which) makes this interesting
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May
30
What Makes An Animal Clean or Unclean?
Dr. Hess as an interesting couple of paragraphs on what way constitute clean/unclean animals:
Genesis 1 suggests that the
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