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I think the critical line in the narrative of Job is what happens to the soul when it is redeemed from the Pit or as the author puts it: To bring that soul from the pit (לֵ֝א֗וֹר) to light in the light of life (בְּא֣וֹר הַֽחַיִּים׃). On the expression “light of life,” see also Ps. 56:13/14: “For you...

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Is it my imagination or did an anti-Semite just invent a new term so as to insult Jews. I can't believe people actually use this terminology.

I don't know how many people are still reading this but I think I might have figured this out. So here's the story. I was looking at Brown, Driver and Briggs as I always do, looking for examples of 'ra'ah' that might come close to what we read in Luke 24:39. You know you do these things and you don'...

I have been thinking all day if - as most or many have surmised - this goes back to a Hebrew original whether 'to see' was ra'ah and the original sense was: because a spirit hath not bones as ye perceive me to have in other words Jesus is finally correcting the disciples about their presumption that...

And why must any conversation these folks participate in have a biased referee? Peter Kirby has demonstrated no hostility toward this crowd. Surely if they have something to say or want to have fair discussions they can have them here. Instead they want to have the right to eject people for not show...

I find online that he was born in Flavia Neapolis Yes that is right and there have been articles written on demonstrable 'Samaritanisms' in the writings of Justin. Of course these have been glossed over with Irenaeus's handiwork (as well as the rewording of scripture according to the LXX). But he w...

It is also strange that Ignatius and Jerome have the Hebrew text say "I am not a bodiless demon' whereas Luke has 'A spirit has not bones' unless as I noted the text was in Hebrew and the word for 'bones' could also mean 'body' (see above). It would seem everyone was loosely translating a lost ...

I still can't find the original Aramaic text but when I look at Neusner and Chilton's English translation (and thus see the original context) it seems that 'but' would be the correct translation: http://books.google.com/books?id=HOv1HYNBs3EC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=%22The+Tosefta+(Sanhedri...

The Babylonian Talmud renders the text (in English): R. Jannai [gave the following example of the law in operation], quoting from R. Simeon b. Gamaliel's [letter to the Communities]: 'We beg to inform you that the doves are still tender and the lambs still young, and the grain has not yet ripened. I...

Baarda is really busy putting together his critical edition of the Martyrium Marci so I didn't want to press him too much on this but he did mention this: Did you see W. Bauer, Das Leben Jesu im Zeitalter der neutestamentlichen Apokryphen, 1909 (reprint Darmstadt, 1967), 260) on this passage in Marc...