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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 [...]
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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On Genesis 1, literal history, and presuppositions
We approach each new thing with the aid of a handy framework that we’ve developed based on all the previous things we’ve encountered. It’s an excellent system, and it’s called learning. The things we carry with us are our assumptions or presuppositions, and the new stuff coming in is data, and it quickly is either [...]
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God is a man?
I’ve been reading five blogs written by women — in the aftermath of the latest round of discussion about the lack of female biblioblogging. And over at Grow Up!, I found something that quite surprised me. Heather Joy was commenting on a number of online articles she’d read. I’ll quote the whole paragraph, but it [...]
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thoughts on genesis, narrative, etc.
[I originally wrote this on December 28, 2010, two months ago, but never posted it due to a feeling that it just wasn't ready for posting. Now it is.] These are thoughts still in the process of forming. Forgive me for thinking them out loud. For seven years now I have been an odd bird [...]
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the first column of the westminster-leningrad codex
The Westminster Leningrad Codex, Genesis 1, translated line by line: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was formless and void Related Posts:“According to Their Kinds” and EvolutionNegotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed TranslationAdam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1On Genesis 1, literal history, and presuppositionsGod is a [...]
genesis 1: romanization with glosses
For display reasons, all the information previously in this update is now kept in an HTML file here. Search the file for “GENESIS 1″ to find the start of this post. Related Posts:“According to Their Kinds” and EvolutionNegotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed TranslationAdam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1On Genesis 1, literal history, [...]
p.d.b. project: genesis 1:24-31
ASV Genesis 1:24-31 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth [...]
p.d.b. project: genesis 1:20-23
ASV Genesis 1:20-23 1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 1:21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its [...]
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“According to Their Kinds” and Evolution