MSH | March 7, 2013
Some readers have drawn my attention to this recent criticism of my understanding of the morphology of the word nephilim. I left some comments on that blog site, but thought it would be worth a post here. I’ll try to be brief (stop laughing). First, it is true that most scholars see nephilim (spelled npylym [...]
MSH | February 11, 2013
I’ve been asked many times whether I have video lectures on “all your divine council stuff.” Until now the answer has been no. Readers may recall that well over a year ago I went to a conference event in PA that had something to do with the divine council. That event was the first time [...]
MSH | October 13, 2012
I just read through the comments and one reader asked about Ezekiel 29 — how the passage is being used to predict yet future events (turns out in this case, before the 2012 doomsday; how ominous). I’m speaking at a conference in 2013 that may surprise some of you: Future Congress 2. If you go [...]
MSH | November 27, 2011
[Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] Here is my second ETS paper, entitled, “Does Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible Demonstrate an Evolution from Polytheism to Monotheism?” My answer is “no, and the question is somewhat misguided.” The paper was an invited one; it was [...]
MSH | November 5, 2011
I’ll be in San Francisco for the annual scholarly society meetings very soon. The meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) is first (Nov 16-18) followed by the meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL; Nov 19-22). Other societies piggy-back on those two major events (e.g., NEAS, IBR, ASOR). I’ll be reading two papers [...]
