A pond as metaphor for Bible reading

Reading the Bible is like looking into a pond. In some places, the water is all murky; in other places, the water is quite clear. In yet some other places, the rocks and pebbles at the bottom of the pond have shifted.
More importantly, when one looks into the pond, one sees a reflection of oneself. [...]

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Some thoughts on reading the Bible

While reading Joshua 3 with some of my Hebrew students, I drew a bit more complicated version of the picture below on the whiteboard:
This shows the complicated nature of this text in Joshua. An original event occurred long ago; the story of this event was probably handed down via oral tradition; the story was written [...]

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Taking a breather – between Stellenbosch and Rome

Things went well in Stellenbosch. Although my papers weren’t completely written out – due to time constraints – my presentations went well. At least, I convinced myself that I was on to something!
I spent the past two days driving back from Stellenbosch to Pretoria with a professor and three fellow students.
I’m taking a breather before [...]

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Stellenbosch Conferences

I am reading a paper in about a week’s time at the SA Association for the Study of the LXX’s Conference in Stellenbosch. The title of this paper is: “Reading ‘Bel and the Dragon’ as Narrative: a comparison between the Old Greek and Theodotion.“
The abstract reads as follows:
This paper investigates the narrative character of Bel [...]

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