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Public Apology from rosclarke 995 days old

About this time last year, in the women's book group at Oak Hill, someone put forward the view that the skins in which Adam and Eve were clothed after ...

Teaching the 'whole Bible' from rosclarke 997 days old

This from James Kugel in 'Traditions of the Bible': It is certainly no accident that only 'half' the Bible's story has generally been found worthy ...

Truth and diversity from rosclarke 1039 days old

Kevin Vanhoozer says this: Truth, like Reality, is in one sense One. However, Reality is so rich and multifacted that it, like white light, can only ...

Six word commentaries from rosclarke 1062 days old

The task: to sum up a book of the bible in precisely six words. The results: here. Can you do better? If I get some good suggestions, I may compile ...

Leviticus 18:5 in Gal 3:12 from rosclarke 1063 days old

This is the verse I wrote my essay on for the hermeneutics class. The task was to examine Paul's hermeneutical goals, methods and assumptions by comparison ...

Text and meaning from rosclarke 1063 days old

[ ... ] of the bible this is incomprehensible. But for a first century Jew, it's a clear allusion to the story of the Exodus, for Jannes and Jambres were ...

Longenecker on apostolic hermeneutics from rosclarke 1063 days old

Richard Longenecker's books 'Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period' is a helpful, thorough, if somewhat dull, analysis of the explicit uses of the ...

So what controls? from rosclarke 1063 days old

If GHE can be shown to be an inadequate (though not entirely worthless) tool for interpreting the bible, what then is left? Are all interpretations ...

Keeping the balance from rosclarke 1063 days old

[ ... ] of the Bible’s understanding and interpretation of itself. the problems are not really generated by the New Testament’s use of the Old, but ...

The world of the Bible awaits... from rosclarke 1063 days old

[ ... ] of the bible as a whole. The proper question to ask is not 'What has the story to do with me?' but 'How should I fit into that story?' All the ...