Zancarius

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by Zancarius 3y ago
> It's a really good reminder that even on the era of large empires, culture was still very fractally distributed. This is a really good point. The ANE had its own idea of cosmology, Europe its, Asia its, etc. Even then, much of the
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We have some idea of the evolution of the Babylonian view of the Earth and its approximate dimensions/shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_Map_of_the_World This idea probably wasn't unique to the B
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> I don't know of any that did bother and decided it was flat (and would really like a pointer) Semitic cultures very much believed the Earth was more or less a disc-like shape that consisted of the known world (mostly in their sphe
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by Zancarius 3y ago
Ah interesting, thanks! I didn't realize the only surviving manuscripts for which we have evidence date approximately to the time range of the MT. Whereas the Sinaiticus majuscule is easily 2-4 centuries earlier. Still, I would expect
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Well said, and there's certainly a dearth of hospitality today. Surely that's true of all times, I realize, but through the ebb and flow of thoughtfulness and kindness it seems the West is at something of a local minimum (dependin
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I like the way you think!
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Maybe, at least in "modern" writing. The problem I have with that claim is that the phrasing "eye of a needle" appears in Talmudic writings that predate the NT, so the idea itself likely predates that, and other creature
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by Zancarius 3y ago
Good point. I guess my view of "modern" with regards to scripture is somewhat warped by the view that anything later than, say, the 7th or 8th centuries is "too new." Either way, the analogy is anachronistic to the text,
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Wise words. It's always a temptation. I've been tossing around the idea of doing a topical Bible study night/meal once a month with some neighbors who are interested (or at least tangentially so) along with some folks from Su
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This is dangerous. Logos has quite a few of his works in their library. I'm never going to get through my ever-growing backlog. And I still have yet to start on John Walton's Lost World series. Thanks! Haha!
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Presently reading through a review—looks like a great recommendation! The charges he levies against modernity are pretty damning but not at all untrue. We're not all that dissimilar from the Israelites who were repeatedly condemned to
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I think I tend to agree with the conclusion—namely that it was predominantly a Jewish influence on Christology. Part of my opinion is shaped by changes in and around the First Century in Judaism which, ultimately, culminated in the Masoreti
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I like this. I literally just caught that word in a commentary I was reading on Sunday. Sadly, English translations sometimes don't convey the force or cultural context of the passage.
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Trinitarianism isn't necessarily a strictly Christian construct—or rather the idea of a godhead comprising multiple parts. "Two Powers" theology (a transcendent, unseeable Yahweh; and Yahweh-as-man) was accepted by Jewish t
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I agree! Where this argument pops up is through the modern myth that "eye of a needle" was a reference to a particular gate in Jerusalem (or something similar; there are different variants of this claim). If this were true, then T
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I have mixed feelings on this, partially from personal experience. In general, I'm against bans and believe primarily in personal responsibility and accountability (this probably betrays my political leanings). However... (Sorry, I&#x2
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I had a Cooler Master case where the IO stack at the top of the case had the opposite orientation (logo down). Threw me off forever. I'm at a point in my life where I've just given up and figure that I'm only going to get it
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We also have state-wide anti-light pollution regulations on the books[1]; unfortunately, enforcement is spotty and depends on the community. Where I live (southern NM) we've had a steady influx of people from out of state, and the firs
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That's unfortunately true. They do have a "fundamentals" edition for $50, which includes the ESV + reverse interlinear, but the catch is that you may have to do the feature upgrade whenever a new version comes out to keep up
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Dr Grant Osborne is on their NT translation board, and his commentary series are well regarded (I've been going through Revelation: Verse-by-Verse, and it was recommended to me by my pastor). I can't remember some of the others on
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The Berean Standard Bible[1] provides their Bible and its translation tables under the public domain[2]. It's a pretty readable translation, too, but I don't remember off-hand what formats they provide. I believe they also have an
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by Zancarius 3y ago
> I hate that the only option is to trust - I want to check for myself! I can understand that. I went through a similar period in my late teens/early 20s that caused me to reject my faith (among other things, but this was a contrib
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Rather apropos, you explained precisely something I felt when I read your OP's comment (but, humorously, did not consciously notice). I loved it, but couldn't articulate why. It hit too close to home. I pictured driving down the
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I'm not a subject matter expert. What I can say is that the Wikipedia entry does seem to be a fairly complete list near as I can tell. I only scanned it quickly, however, but it does seem to miss the Patristic sources. Specifically, we
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I have an appreciation for such "conspiratorial" thinking (using that term loosely since it's taken on a mind of its own in recent years), but mostly as a source of amusement. I want to suggest that the idea is entirely prepo
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N.B.: I am not a biblical scholar. I just read way too much. That said, in addition to what pacaro wrote... Where we get the date of many of these manuscripts from is some combination of how and where they were found, in this tome's ca
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The thing I find most striking about it at first glance is almost hilarious to me, and it's best illustrated by this remark: "Christian commentators adopted a similar system. They placed the Biblical text in the centre of each pa
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Exactly, and I think we as humans also read it differently. To me "3 years ago" reads "sometime in 2020, who knows?" but it might be "October 2020" to someone else. It's so imprecise as to be rather useles
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Okay, that's a shame. The most interesting part of the product is the part the article didn't even touch on! Thank you for finding this!
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I suspect there's a lot of individual variation too. COVID for me was exceptionally mild with the only annoyance being the total lost of smell for ~12 days. Otherwise, the dry cough wasn't any worse than the one I get when my alle

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