Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
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- Too normal
- tolle! lege!
- Who's on first?
- Let go of the pride
- Grace is the answer
- Metaphors really do matter—a lot
- What to do with that pesky Hebrew vav
- Could it be?
- The extent of grace
- We love to categorize
- Sentence? What sentence?
- Come? Or "draw us near"?
- The weight of obligation
- Consistency? Not so much...
- If only it were easy
- Hold on!
- I don't like this
- Textual Criticism
- ANE backgrounds
- What exactly is "radically normal" anyway?
- It's all about context
- Now we're getting somewhere
- Not of "this generation"
- Another new book—well, new to me anyway
- It's got to fit!
- Topic? Who knows!
- Why disciples?
- Huh? Say that in English please
- Love that dirt
- It ain't easy
- Loving means not willing the destruction of enemies
- Too vague to be useful
- A scary alternative
- It's all around me!
- The path of the "true child of God"
- Yes, verb first
- Dependence
- It's universal
- Peacemakers
- Verb-first
- We are communal beings
- But is it really a resource?
- Forgiveness is first
- If it were simple, we wouldn't be arguing about it...
- Origins matter
- It is true
- True greatness
- Word order
- No ethics? Meta-ethics might be a better term
- Concealing or revealing the truth?
- Take up the cross
- Planting time
- It, too, is lacking
- All grace, all the time
- Through narrow glasses
- Becoming a "son" of God
- I-it or I-thou? It matters
- But it contradicts my favorite presuppositions
- A bit of action
- What's expected
- The goal is God
- Phenomenology and ethics
- The hound of heaven
- Words matter
- What it is
- A simple task
- It's official!
- Spirit-assisted
- It hides as much as it reveals
- First Century Synagogues
- That possessive apostrophe
- Smashing good
- Not universalism
- Metaphor versus metonymy
- It's not a derivative
- "The" or "a"—and why
- The indwelling Christ
- Discourse models
- As I was saying...
- It's all grace
- Theology of the Lord's Prayer
- Abstraction
- That dichotomy again
- Stephanus did us a disfavor
- New doctrine
- How deep does metaphor go?
- One king
- Another reason word-for-word translation doesn't work
- Baby steps
- Would you just get with the program!
- He is risen
- He is risen! So?
- Not very effective
- Take that, you Augustinians!
- It really is a prayer
- How it is said matters
- Thought for a Good Friday
- What about Phoebe?
- Prevenient grace endorsed
- Unconscious transformation (grammar?)
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3 comments:
The situation is not nearly so clear in Semitic, of course. I respond to Moshavi in a series of blog posts and then in a resulting article (JHS 2010).
Ancienthebrewgrammar.wordpress.com
Rob,
Yes. I'm aware of your responses and have read them.
I'm still an unrepentant VSO person, though. : )
James
I find it very strange how many say the same thing but cannot articulate any defense for it. Adhering to a position that one cannot defend is the opposite of scholarship, correct?
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