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Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Bible

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0004, 20th April, 2011
It was John Hobbins’ posts that first made me aware of the idea of functional canonicity. That is, regardless of what a group says is their canon, more practically important is what they use as canonical. In this sense, we could say that the Apostles’ Creed is canonical for most Christians. We could say that [...]
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what’s the central verse of the torah?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1647, 10th May, 2010
The central verse of the Torah (I read this today in Emanuel Tov’s Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, p. 57, citing b. Qidd. 30a, which ascribes finding it out to the soferim) is this: Leviticus 13:33:  then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall shut him [...]
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The canon

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2359, 6th December, 2009
If we agree that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, and that the Bible is the Word of God, we then come to another question: what is the Bible? In the last post, I defined the Bible as the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the New Testament. If these books are to govern our lives, [...]
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