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Negotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed Translation
Sometimes, translation is more like a negotiation than calculation. The translator is always moving a source text into a target language and juggling several conflicting goals at once. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn’t done much translation, hasn’t taken it very seriously, or is simply lying. The negotiation is sometimes comparatively easy, but sometimes negotiations [...]
500 words on Michael Fishbane’s “Text and Texture”
Michael Fishbane’s Text and Texture is a little book: 150 pages. It asks about biblical texts: what they teach, how they interact with culture, how we may reconstruct their intentions, what avenues for thought they open up. He wisely avoids trying to give an overview of those question in a general Bible-wide way, as Fishbane’s [...]
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“Here I am” — Three Generations of Substitute Killings
Abraham said, “Here I am,” went to kill Isaac, and in the end killed a substitute animal (Genesis 22). Jacob said, “Here I am,” as he brought Isaac the substitute animals he had killed instead of Esau’s hunting (Genesis 27). Joseph said, “Here I am,” and was quickly sold as a slave, and his garments [...]
Two hotheaded bigamists married a woman named Adah.
Genesis 4:19 and 36:2. Coincidence? Related Posts:“Here I am” — Isaac is deceived twice about the death of a substitute.Negotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed TranslationJacob was a prostitute.He will possess the gate of his enemies.David Chilton’s “Paradise Restored” — A Review
Jacob was a prostitute.
People speak sometimes about the various heroes of the faith who had unsavory pasts. Moses, they tell us, was a murderer, and David an adulterer or maybe a rapist, and Peter a lying coward, and so on. But I’ve never heard anyone before say that Jacob was a male prostitute, pimped out by one of [...]
“Here I am” — Isaac is deceived twice about the death of a substitute.
One of the fascinating things about Genesis is the way that it uses parallel language in parallel stories. For example, both trips to Gerar misidentifying a wife as a sister, followed by an explosion of anger when one person sees another m’tzacheq in relation to Isaac yitzchaq — Ishmael “jeering” in Genesis 21:19 and Isaac [...]
He will possess the gate of his enemies.
Look at the connections between these four scriptures: From Genesis 22: 15 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven the second time, 16 and said, “‘By myself I have sworn,’ says the LORD, ‘for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your only son, 17 that in blessing [...]
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David Chilton’s “Paradise Restored” — A Review
Significance and Setting Paradise Restored has been rightly described by Gary North as the “fourth cornerstone” of the school of thought known as Christian Reconstruction, or theonomic postmillennialism. Related Posts:“Theonomy: A Reformed Critique”: Part 1, Robert D. Knudeson, “May We Use the Term Theonomy?”Greg Bahnsen’s “No Other Standard” — A ReviewThree Events of 1973 Which [...]
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Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1
The first human being is named Adam in Genesis 1. In today’s English we capitalize some words to make them names. Thus, chastity is a virtue, but Chastity is a name someone might give a child. No such distinction is made in Hebrew, to this very day. So it would be more accurate to say [...]
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“According to Their Kinds” and Evolution