MSH | September 6, 2010
Some of you have asked for a summary of where I disagree with Walton on bara’. What follows below is an exchange between John Hobbins (another friend of mine and Hebrew scholar) and Walton. My reservations are essentially those that are expressed by Hobbins. Hobbins vs. Walton Walton’s response to Hobbins Here’s something else thrown [...]
MSH | September 6, 2010
There are just under two weeks left to sign up to go through an introductory biblical Hebrew grammar and/or an introductory biblical Greek grammar with Mike. The cut off date is September 19. All of this is low-tech and low-pressure, and not software-based. I guide you through the grammars over the course of a year [...]
MSH | September 1, 2010
Here’s a recent article by John Walton on this issue. it is more up-to-date than Hasel. You’ll notice that he cites Tsumura and others in objection to seeing tehom as the primeval opponent. Tsumura favors a Genesis polemic that more or less has Canaanite, not Mesopotamian, material in view (and its more of a rival [...]
MSH | September 1, 2010
This short piece was posted by Larry Hurtado today. Good food for thought, especially in the context of our (now old) discussion of inspiration (which we will revisit at some point). Larry targets fundamentalists (read: black and white thinkers) on both the theologically conservative and liberal camps with this one. I haven’t read either of [...]
