MSH | April 19, 2011
As Passover approaches, we will get the obligatory articles (usually written by devoted skeptical journalists) about “the real truth” behind Passover (and Easter, of course). The article you’ll find at this post over at Todd Bolen’s Bible Places blog isn’t of that stripe. Still, it’s pretty unsatisfying. The author of the article is Stephen Rosenberg [...]
MSH | April 18, 2011
That’s a take on the title of a recent post by John Hobbins over on Ancient Hebrew Poetry. The context is a discussion about what constitutes a good Bible translation. I have to agree with John. The parts must be contextualized to produce a contextualized whole. Easier said than done; easier said than accepted by [...]
MSH | April 14, 2011
Well, finally got around to re-reading Dan’s paper from SBL of last year. I had attended the paper and taken notes, but I wanted to run through the paper once again. My thanks to Dan for sending me a copy (and for the heads up from Matt – and congrats to him and his wife [...]
MSH | April 7, 2011
That’s the title of this worthwhile post from Todd Bolen. Nice work. Technorati Tags: Bible, Gehenna, hades, hell, New Testament, Old Testament, Sheol, Tophet, tophetim
MSH | April 5, 2011
A little more than a month ago I attended the Northwest regional meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. The society had invited two guest speakers: Craig Blomberg, a professor at Denver Seminary and Marcus Borg, now professor emeritus at Oregon State. Both are New Testament scholars whose focus is on the gospels and the historical [...]
