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A pond as metaphor for Bible reading

Posted in Hermeneutics, New Testament - General, Old Testament - General on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Hermeneutics, OT Textual Criticism, Old Testament - General, tagged on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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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