MSH | April 15, 2009
I got an email today from Oxford Univ Press that offers temporary free access to a new content site of theirs. The email is below, with URL and password. If you go to the site, the Genesis discussion mirrors one I’d like to have here — about the translation of Genesis 1:1. Anyway, here is [...]
MSH | April 13, 2009
One of the regular commenters on The Naked Bible (Jonathan) sent me this link to a discussion on the topic “Adam and Eve: Did They Really Exist?” He recommended I read the opening statements of both contributors, and I do the same to you. Jonathan also noted that it was Father Hensen’s view that seemed [...]
MSH | April 9, 2009
I may post more from John Hobbins’ third installment later. I’ll keep it here to this one extended excerpt. I think you’ll find what John is angling toward interesting: Sooner or later the pluriformity of the tradition that eventually came to be included in a variety of canons must be evaluated on the theological plane. [...]
MSH | April 6, 2009
Okay, I can’t contain myself any longer. Along with the canon posts, which I’ll continue, I have to start in on Romans 5:12. This verse is on my short list of most abused and misunderstood texts in the Bible. I’m going to start with an egregious abuse of it, and then move to problems traditional [...]
