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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