Psalm 119 is one of my favorite (at least top 10) passages in the Bible, especially since I had to memorize it (in the KJV) back when I was about 12 years old. Bob MacDonald is writing a series on it in Hebrew that is well worthwhile following. Start with his first post.
I’ve now read through the first chapter of Leviticus using the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary on Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. I want to caution readers that I’m reflecting on and responding to the text of the commentary, and not just repeating it. If I don’t identify a thought as coming from Baker (David W. Baker, author…
Dave Black commented on my outline, linked in my previous post, thus: 1:28 PM Henry Neufeld, who has published a work on the epistle to the Hebrews, enters the discussion about the book’s outline/discourse structure. You can check out his soon-to-be-revised outline here. I love it! The only comment I might make concerns the title…
Fair warning: I’ll probably be stuck on definitions. In fact, I’m in the process of writing a blog post about it right now. I’ll add a link to this one once the other is complete. (Here’s the link: Bloody Sacrifices and Salvation.) Here’s the viewer:
Second Sunday of Easter April 3, 2005 I didn’t manage to restart these notes before Lent as I had planned and stated on the web page, but they are restarted now. I am no longer including my working translation so I can focus more on the interpretive process. Where I have worked such translations over…
Matthew Henry, in commenting on Psalm 95 says that “[t]his psalm must be sung with a holy reverence of God’s majesty and a dread of his justice, with a desire to please him and a fear to offend him.” I’m wondering just how that was derived from this Psalm. I don’t doubt that there we…
Jim West has brought back the Biblical Studies Carnival. (HT: TCOJC)
Thank-you Henry – I am trying to catch up with my other blog’s series on the Hebrew letters – examining grammar in Ruth. I am hoping the two studies will complement each other and then I hope to be sufficiently ‘fluent’ to continue the Ruth story. Had you ever heard the theory (10th century Saadya) that the Hebrew letters divide into two groups of 11? I have tried it – and I think it is very helpful. The 11 grammatical letters and the 11 others – where grammatical letter is defined as a letter that can form a close enclitic – without maqqep – with words. I have not found the definitive list! So I made up my own. (here is my reasoning). Next time I am at the library I will try and see if I can get another view of this division.
No, I had not heard of that. I’ll be watching to see what you post on it in the future.
In all my recent posts on grammar, I am coloring the grammar green – and the letters of that first group : aleph, bet, he, vav, yod, kaf, lamed, mem, nun, shin, tav help me see the grammar more quickly. I will see if I can make the two series more obvious with links.