MSH | August 8, 2012
I came across Psalm 66:5-6 the other day while working with Mark Futato at Logos Bible Software last weekend (it was a reference in a presentation he made). Here’s the ESV: 5 Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. 6 He turned the sea [...]
MSH | August 2, 2012
A Naked Bible reader, Bryan Hodge, asked permission to post his thoughts on the Adam issue (it picks up on my previous post about ‘adam with or without the definite article). They are below. I presume that reader comments will be answered by him. Once again, the transliterations will not be precise, as I can’t [...]
MSH | July 26, 2012
[Addendum 7/27/2012: I hope readers will have a look at the comments on this post when they are done reading the post. There are some good, coherent questions asked. I hope readers will see that these questions only *appear* problematic *since* they are asked from the perspective of the traditional reading of the Genesis 1-2 [...]
MSH | June 20, 2012
I’ve been thinking (still) about the historical Adam issue. It surprises me that I haven’t seen anyone (yet — perhaps one of you knows an exception) address the grammatical-syntactical issue as it relates to “Adam” in Genesis 1-5. I speak specifically of the fact that Hebrew grammar does not tolerate a definite article with a [...]
MSH | June 2, 2012
A few weeks ago I had offered some thoughts on a review of Peter Enns’ recent book, The Evolution of Adam. Readers recall that the purpose there was to object to some poor thinking maligning Enns’ theological thinking. In the course of that short critique, I also put forth some thoughts of my own about [...]
