From My Bookshelf

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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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
1 min read
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
2 min read
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
1 min read
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
2 min read
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
1 min read
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,
2 min read
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
1 min read
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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