In continuing my some-what rambling study of the opening chapters of Genesis I want to begin by thanking Daniel McClellan and John Hobbins for noting and commenting on this series. As I noted on John’s blog, this kind of engagement is incredibly refreshing to me. As a dean I spend […]
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Following my post yesterday David Everson passed along this good news: Daniel O. McClellan has a link to an online pdf download of Rendsburg’s book. Here is the actual page: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=5 That link is now defunct, use this: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/redaction-of-genesis Here is the blog: http://maklelan.blogspot.com/2009/01/gary-rendsburgs-redaction-of-genesis.html This is a slim but very good […]
Perhaps it can be more fruitful to begin discussing what Genesis 1 is by considering what it is not. Genesis 1 is not a guide on how to create your cosmos. This first chapter of the Bible is about many things, but it is clearly not presenting a scientific treatise, […]
hotdogsladies God enables comments on Genesis: “1. First!” “2. Snake looks fake” “3. Abraham ram = teh lame” “4. LOLCains” “5. Friend me, Creator of man!”
UPDATE: January 15, 2019 – On Twitter Årstein Justnes said that this fragment was one of the texts acquired by the Museum of the Bible shown to be a fake. Yes, it is one of the five (fake) MOTB frgs that were tested in Berlin in 2017: Gen 31:23–25?, 32:3–6 […]
A student of mine just sent me this link: Genesis: Traditional with Rashi and Rashbam. David Blumenthal of Emory University (and overall GREAT guy!) has put together a nice web page with three frames of Gen. 1-2.4. It includes an English rendering of the biblical passage and then below it […]
The following was the paper I presented at the International SBL meeting in Amsterdam this week. As it turned out, Almost half of the scholars in the room had written on one Targum text or another dealing it the Messiah! I do not intend to publish this as is, so […]
My deepest apologies to everyone, especially Leeor. I had intended to post this quite literally years ago. Just before the outbreak of COVID and my (unrelated) tenure as interim Dean of Arts & Sciences, this product was announced and demonstrated. Dr. Leeor Gottleib of Bar-Ilan University has created the Equivalent […]
This is an entry in the “Acrostic Contemplations” and began as a sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent (February 25, 2024). “[The LORD] brought Abram outside and said, ‘Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall […]
This is an entry in the “Acrostic Contemplations.” Restore, regard, redemption, resurrection, repair, respite…again and again we find the prefix “re” in English. From the Latin re, it is an inseparable prefix meaning “back” or “again.” Even a moment’s reflection reveals why we find it so often in our language. […]