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israel finkelstein, khirbet qeiyafa, king david, ancient hebrew poetry
John Hobbins has written a series of articles arguing that the findings at Khirbet Qeiyafa are evidence against the theory that David and Solomon were kings of tiny little areas. They are entitled “Finkelstein on Khirbet Qeiyafa,” “Public building in the early monarchic period of a polity named Israel,” “Khirbet Qeiyafa: The Kiss of Death [...]
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john hobbins strikes again on education
Never one to cringe in the politically correct, John Hobbins has articulated what some of us have known for a while now: the public school system discriminates against male students. And he backs up his reasoning with studies that say the same thing. Although our approaches to dealing with the issue are probably different (he’d [...]
a challenging post on the importance of being earnest . . .
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corruption in lamentations 3:51?
I read this earlier today, by John Hobbins, about Lamentations 3:51. Before I go on to share my doubts about what the author is proposing, let me say first that I fully realize that he is an expert in biblical Hebrew, and I am not by any stretch of the imagination. But my objection to [...]
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an interesting discussion of authorship
One of the things we must consistently deal with in the Biblical text is authorship. When it comes to Bible text, there are some anonymous books and then certain books which claim a particular author. For example, all the letters of Paul, with the possible exception of Hebrew, indicate Paul as their author. As a [...]
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