Thursday, June 28, 2012

Thoughts on the 2012 PCA GA (3)

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Now we move to the hard stuff. But first a little background as to how GA functions. Monday and Tuesday are given over to the work of the Co...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Thoughts on the 2012 PCA GA (2)

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The Standing Judicial Commission In addition to the Committee on Overtures, and the Committee on the Review of Presbytery Records, the oth...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Thoughts on The 2012 PCA General Assembly

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It is the case that hardly anyone leaves General Assembly (GA) entirely satisfied. There are always things that commissioners wish had gone ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Translation Notes 3: Psalm 100:3

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I apologize at the beginning that this is a somewhat technical post, but many of them will be, due to the nature of the case. So. Why ...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Translational Notes 2

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Additional sources for textual information In addition to the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Syriac version, there are two more major ...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Translation Notes 1

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There are probably six (or eight, depending on how you count them) Bible translations in common use in evangelical churches in the United ...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

On Reading the Bible in 2012: Continued

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Two things to deal with in this follow-up post. First, while I don’t recommend this for most people, I do make one recommendation for past...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

On Reading the Bible in 2012

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This is the time of year when people make resolutions to read through the Bible in the coming year. If this is your intent, I hope this po...
Monday, December 05, 2011

Punctuating the Bible: Ephesians 4:11-12

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In speaking, we indicate emphasis and pauses simply by the way we pronounce the words. Punctuation and other ways of marking a text are us...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Biblical Languages and Gender: Final Thoughts

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First, ordinary English still uses “he” for the generic third person. The only people who don’t think so are those who are committed to “g...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Biblical Languages and Gender (3)

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We left off last time with the gender-neutral treatment of Psalm 1. In addition to what I mentioned last time, there is one more element i...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Biblical Languages and Gender (2)

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Like Greek, Hebrew nouns and adjectives have gender. Unlike Greek, they occur only as masculine or feminine. There is no neuter gender in ...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Biblical Languages and Gender

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From James Taranto’s column at the Wall Street Journal on October 27, 2011 : “One of the things we most loathe about feminism is its eff...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Matthew 18 and the Other Matthew 18

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This past Thursday in chapel we had a very fine message from one of our seniors on the parable of the man who owed 10,000 talents. He refe...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Punctuating the Bible

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The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic (the Aramaic portions are as follows: Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:11-26; Daniel 2:4-7:...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Translational Annoyances

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Since I teach one of the Biblical languages, I am frequently asked which English Bible translation I recommend. I sort of cheat, answering...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Bible Translation and Editorial Consistency

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One of the fundamental difficulties in any translation work is for the translator to enable the reader to hear the “voice” of the original...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Lord of Hosts

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Last time, I was arguing that “hosts” in this title probably does not refer to angels, but rather to the hosts of Israel . It is pertinent...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Lord of Hosts: Lord of Heavens Armies?

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The KJV rendered the Hebrew phrase yhwh ts e ba’ot by the English phrase “Lord of Hosts.” Since then, most English versions have simply f...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Is the CEB the New NRSV? (2)

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Technically, the answer to that question is, “No.” The CEB is not being done by the Division of Christian Education of the NCC , which hol...