MSH | September 3, 2009
Good to be back blogging on the NB. I lost my laptop for a week and posting was spotty. But thanks the Geek Squad at BestBuy, I’m back in business. By now you’ve had plenty of time to read through the file I posted with all the occurrences of Sheol. You should have noticed that, [...]
MSH | August 24, 2009
I’ve been getting asked about Sheol and the afterlife a lot recently, so I thought I’d return briefly to the topic. (I had blogged about this in relation to ghosts in the OT). Specifically, here is the question: does the OT contain the idea of either a blissful afterlife or eternal punishment — as opposed [...]
MSH | June 3, 2009
Here’s another article to file under contextualizing the Bible with respect to its literary conventions. If you’re like me, you’ve heard Christian apologists say something like “the New Testament resurrection stories are like nothing in the ancient world,” a statement usually made to convince us that the resurrection was a bodily one. Now, I believe [...]
MSH | June 10, 2008
We’re at the point now in our intermittent forays into the biblical realm of the dead to flesh out (again, pardon the pun) who’s who in the Underworld. I noted at the start that I wanted to start with the term metim to see if that term spoke of the human dead, as opposed to [...]
MSH | May 23, 2008
Here is the short list of passages (from the last post) we need to consider: Deut 18:11; Deut. 26:14; Deut 28:62; Psa 88:5; Psa 88:10; Psa 106:28; Psa 115:17; Eccl 9:3; Eccl 9:5; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 26:19 Continuing on in our efforts to parse the dead (metim) … I once again offer my [...]
