Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Like, not "to be"

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Although the serpent was correct that Adam and Eve’s eyes would be opened and they would become like ʾelōhîm , his promise that they could d...
Monday, January 30, 2017

The similarities continue

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In Ps 8:6, however, man is not said to be clothed with glory and honor but crowned (ʿṭr) with them. With his choice of the verb ʿṭr , the p...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Review of The Image of God

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Eisenbrauns just received a review of the book we've been excerpting, The "Image of God" in the Garden of Eden . The whole rev...

The role of humanity in the garden

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Regarding ʾbd and šmr , however, the only other place in the Hebrew Bible aside from Gen 2:15 where these verbs appear together is in Num 3...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

It's there!

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I concluded above that ṣelem and dəmût in Gen 1:26–27 were used to describe the creation of humankind because the author was likening the ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

And so it begins

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USDA science researchers ordered to stop publishing news releases, other documents, and EPA told to freeze all grants and contracts . Becau...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Scary

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And they said it couldn't happen here... via Jim West

Those pesky little prepositions

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[T]he nature of the divine-human relationship as it is presented in Genesis 1 has three major components that are intimately related to one ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Yes, but with a careful distinction

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We must keep in mind, however, that humanity ( ʿādām ) is nowhere described in the Hebrew Bible explicitly as “Yahweh’s son.” However, the u...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

The sacred balance

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"Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord." Hebrews 12:14 NIV Ε...
Friday, January 20, 2017

According to their kind

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In total, the phrase “according to its/their kind” is repeated 10 times in these 7 verses alone (Gen 1:11–12 and 1:21–25). Clearly, the auth...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

But not gods

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The biblical author avoids explicit birthing language like that which appears in the mīs pî and the wpt-r texts to describe the ritual cr...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Laying the ground work

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The frequent appearance of dəmût in the descriptions of Ezekiel’s visions demonstrates that the prophet is struggling to describe what he s...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

But it looks great!

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Impressive, large, public buildings have power—that is why they are built. They speak to us of human power, implicitly ordained by the divin...

But not God

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How, then, does Gen 9:6 illumine our understanding of what it means that humankind is created bəṣelem ʾelōhîm ? It clearly demonstrates that...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Come, let us play God!

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God is the creator of humankind, and therefore he, or one appointed by him, is the only one who can take a human life. For another man to do...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

An implication of the imago dei

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I must point out that nowhere in the Old Testament is Yahweh referred to explicitly gōʾēl haddām , but Zechariah’s cry for Yahweh “to see an...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Opening the mouth in Egyptian ritual

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Through the reanimation of their sensory organs, the royal deceased of ancient Egypt were revived through their cultic images so that they c...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

A foregone conclusion

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This [depicting the statue as completed before it was begun being made] would also explain why the ritual as it is recorded in Rekhmire’s to...
Monday, January 09, 2017

Well then, what is it?

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I have sought to demonstrate that, according to the mīs pî pīt pî , the creation of a divine statue was not primarily a ritual of purifica...