David asked: Bruce suggests that while Sarah is not irrelevant (she was involved in Isaac's birth!), the Greek term used for generation can only refer to the...
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Christopher Heard
rcheard
Apr 2, 2008 1:42 am
... That is one important argument, but by no means the primary one. Of equal or greater importance is that the biblical narrative knows no such person as...
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jimstinehart
Apr 2, 2008 1:04 am
Professor Christopher Heard: In order to keep this post reasonably short, let me focus exclusively on what I take to be your main argument: that "Sur" at...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 2, 2008 12:39 am
... I accept that the word CAN mean "sperm", or at least "semen", the fluid containing sperm. Indeed it does in LXX in the places I noted. But by far the more...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Apr 2, 2008 12:16 am
Peter, I am going to make myself a liar and reply to you since you are simply compounding your errors. The documentation regarding the section quoted from the...
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David Cavanagh
dacavanagh
Apr 2, 2008 12:08 am
... This is interesting, but I'm not convinced. The "laying down of a line of descendants" undoubtedly captures the sense -and it fits nicely into the flow of...
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Rikk Watts
rikkwatts
Apr 1, 2008 11:40 pm
Dear Peter, Re SPERMATOS: what would you say then concerning Bill Lane's WBC Hebrews commentary and BDAG, both of whom indicate that it can indeed mean sperm? ...
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David Cavanagh
dacavanagh
Apr 1, 2008 11:29 pm
... Very interesting! Especially since another contributor has sent me (off-list) comments from William Lane's Word commentary, which suggests the phrase in...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Apr 1, 2008 11:22 pm
An interesting find courtesy of Rochelle Altman! Notice number 4 in this list from The Discovery Channel: http://tinyurl.com/3xb2on Is this indicative of a...
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brian boland
brianjboland
Apr 1, 2008 7:16 pm
David I come from a perspective of ending my search for NT Christianity in 312, before organized politics got in the way of formalized belief systems. My...
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Christopher Heard
rcheard
Apr 1, 2008 5:33 pm
... It's April 1, Jim. Are you trying to pull something over on us? 1. There is no such person as "Biblical princeling Abimelech of Sur in the Gerar region." ...
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jimstinehart
Apr 1, 2008 5:24 pm
Abimelek vs. Abimilki: Jousting Over Well Water Rights Is Biblical princeling Abimelek of Sur in the Gerar region modeled closely upon historical princeling...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 1, 2008 3:49 pm
... No, no, no! The words are EIS KATABOLHN SPERMATOS. Yes, we have the modern biological term "sperm" from the Greek word here SPERMA, but this is a false...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 1, 2008 3:31 pm
... James, I note that you can't even spell the Greek correctly, although your (first) translation is good. You also fail to note the evidence from two early...
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Apr 1, 2008 2:55 pm
This is an automated monthly mailing to all members of The Biblicalist of our current protocols. Please take a few minutes to read through them to familiarize...
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James Spinti
tweetynwiley
Apr 1, 2008 2:35 pm
All, Yep, we did it again! Our editors scoured the earth looking for the latest and greatest titles to advance the study of the ancient Near East and biblical...
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Phil Sumpter
philsumpter
Apr 1, 2008 2:18 pm
I recently spent a couple of hours in the British Museum admiring their Assyrian collection. I took a bunch of detailed photos and have since discovered that I...
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David E. S. Stein
davidesstein1
Apr 1, 2008 2:17 pm
... RESPONSE: Well, I know nothing about ancient Greek, but I do recall this passage's being discussed in my reading about ancient views of human...
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David Opderbeck
dopderbeck
Apr 1, 2008 1:40 pm
James, thanks for the link. Obviously this is one of those topics that generates lots of heat. I'd like to lay my presuppositions on the table and say that...
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David Cavanagh
dacavanagh
Apr 1, 2008 1:29 pm
I'm currently preparing a sermon on Hebrews 11:8-16, and I have to deal with the question of whether v. 11 is about Abraham's faith or Sarah's (not in the...
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McGrath, James
JamesFrankMc...
Apr 1, 2008 1:05 pm
Rather than repost the whole thing here, I have a detailed treatment of the census of Quirinius and the infancy narratives in my online course notes from my...
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SemioticSymphony@...
winetattler
Apr 1, 2008 12:44 pm
Now that the thread is turning on translation, I would point out that what we have come the know affectionately as the Synoptic Problem is really nothing more...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 1, 2008 12:18 pm
... You didn't state the source of the translation. I pointed out that it was an inaccurate translation without attribution, except when I wrote "you have not...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Apr 1, 2008 11:44 am
Peter, It would be preferable, if you are going to take exception to something, that you properly represent what has been said. You have committed three...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Apr 1, 2008 11:28 am
... The particular information seems to be located at: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_1_Text.html Without a default, US-ASCII (7-bit ASCII standard ANSI...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 1, 2008 11:25 am
... The original is at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3649054.ece. But I think they put it out a day early. -- Peter Kirk E-mail:...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 1, 2008 11:16 am
... To adapt your words, the most serious objection to this translation is that this is not the proper way to read the Greek. In the Greek, the words "first"...
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Peter Kirk
peterqaya
Apr 1, 2008 10:49 am
... Yitzhak, I haven't checked this, but I think charset=ISO-8859-1 is the official default when none is specified, and so it may be omitted. It is of course...
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alex.masterley
Apr 1, 2008 8:20 am
I have a number of questions about the Genesis Flood chronology and would be grateful for advice on the more notable scholarly opinions on the subject. First,...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Apr 1, 2008 7:22 am
Don't kill the messenger! It's a peculiar take on an admittedly strange cuneiform tablet from Nineveh. All the standard fun bits for reporters to get wrong! ...
