MSH | January 11, 2013
The MEMRA schedule for 2013 has now been posted! MEMRA is in its third year and has transitioned to offering only ancient language courses. Each course lasts one year (52 weeks) so as to stretch two semesters of grammar for student convenience and low pressure pacing. There will be two modules that have their start in [...]
MSH | October 4, 2012
(No, I haven’t forgotten about Part 2 to my “can unbelievers please God”; that will come.) Until then, I thought readers would find this post by Charles Halton: “Why the Study of Ancient Culture is Inseparable from Translation.” It will especially be of interest to those following the podcast series regarding interpreting the Bible in [...]
MSH | September 12, 2012
I appreciated this post from James McGrath, whose short essay was stimulated by Robin Parry’s post, to whom James directs his readers. The issue is how “literal creationists” are actually only selective literalists (or, as I would call them, “inconsistent literalists”). If one was truly consistent in interpreting the creation description in Genesis 1 at [...]
MSH | July 21, 2012
The last episode of the podcast dealt with the need to tap into the intellectual output of the ancient Mediterranean world — the Bible’s own context – in order to start thinking the thoughts of the biblical writers. This episode takes this recommendation further by directing listeners to the best volumes and websites for English [...]
MSH | July 9, 2012
In this second episode of the series on Bible study, I discuss what interpreting the Bible “in context” really means — taking the Bible’s own primitive context seriously. Rather than filter the Bible through creeds dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, or even the period of early Christianity, the Bible’s actual context is the [...]
