MSH | February 1, 2013
I often get asked about the “true pronunciation of the divine name” or “the authentic meaning of YHWH, the Tetragrammaton.” I’ve often wondered why people care — why is it that they can’t be content with the scholarly convention of “Yahweh” in this regard, especially if they aren’t scholars, the people who typically argue about [...]
MSH | February 24, 2012
I am presuming that most of you have given Friedman’s Chapter 2 (from Who Wrote the Bible?) a read-through by now. I wanted to post a couple quick thoughts on why his description, though accurately describing the theory, actually makes me suspicious of the approach. For our purposes here, I’m not going to get into [...]
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 | 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 | November 4, 2010
I just found out via Liberty University (I’m adjunct for them in their distance program) that I can post links on my blog to free PDF articles that I have written. I presume they have cleared everything with respect rights or they wouldn’t be suggesting this to increase readership. So, here you go if you [...]
