Peter Enns on Cosmic Conflict in Genesis and Exodus
It’s a great article on the Biologos Foundation’s Science and the Sacred blog.
It’s a great article on the Biologos Foundation’s Science and the Sacred blog.
… and a mighty interesting interview it is, including discussion of how authors, readers, and texts were understood in the ancient world.
When I teach Sunday School classes, as I often do, there is nothing more likely to lull people to sleep than a discussion of hermeneutics. I get a great deal of attention talking about history. People are very interested as I explore some different interpretations of a particular Biblical passage and where and when those…
Another great post on this by Rachel M. Stone. I’m glad I found her blog.
Someone signing as Morgan Sorensen just left a comment on my old post (11/28/2006), and I want to promote it to its own post, because it demonstrates the core errors of the KJV-Only position in a very small space. I’m printing the entire comment but I’m interspersing it with comments on the core errors that…
Well, my prospective, perhaps presumptive garden, that is. One of the important elements to understanding stories in the Bible, parables included, is our perspective. In Christian circles, when we hear “the sower went forth to sow,” (Matthew 13:3), or perhaps “a farmer went out to sow his seed,” we generally see ourselves in the role…
Isaiah 31:4-5 has presented a rather substantial exegetical, critical, and even translation problem to a number of commentators. The difficulty can be illustrated by comparing the translation of this verse in the REB: This is what the LORD has said to me: As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey when the…