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by wcarey 6y ago
I'm glad you found it thought provoking. The liturgical churches tend to follow a lectionary, which, as you say, excerpts from the scriptures. The RCL has some passages that I think are cut poorly, but generally keeps the unit of thoug
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Perhaps! I've encountered lots of fellow Christians who construct arguments by taking individual verses from everywhere in the scriptures and arranging them into an argument assuming that all the terms are equivalent and that the conte
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Sure - there are lots of folks aiming at a more authentic reading. In general, the older a church, the more it aims at a reading that avoids the modern atomizing impulse. The Catholic and Orthodox churches do some good work on that score, a
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What are the upsides? What are the downsides? (And to whom?) Note that I'm not saying the downside is "declining Biblical literacy" - by many metrics I'd imagine that's increasing? I wonder how you'd measure th
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by wcarey 6y ago
So, it seems like you're claiming that some scammers believe that some religious people are gullible. That's certainly true, if not particularly interesting! Are you aiming at a broader argument or more expansive claim?
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Ah - apologies - I misread you. I'm not sure whether there are any mid-sentence verse breaks in the Old Testament. I'll look!
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It is, as you say, not particularly suited for something like an API for verses.
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Can you expand on the claim and warrant you're making there?
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Fascinating! Do you have a good book recommendation that introduces that? It's not something I know much about.
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I'm thinking, for example, of the RCL, which often breaks passages mid chapter and occasionally omits individual verses. What sort of Christian community do you mostly know? If you said "The St. Crispin's day speech" I&#
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Indeed - and I'd say that the division of those sources has been broadly restricted to scholars, and that those scholars broadly also read those ancient texts in the enlightenmenty way that I'm suggesting does violence to them.
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Christians, in particular, would believe Christianity man made. After all, God became incarnate and fully human!
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So, having read the whole of what you wrote, the reason not to do both is that atomization promotes an epistemology that does grave violence to Christian belief. God's self revelation could have been a math textbook: a collection of in
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Sure - take a look at the first chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. The sentence: Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but
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Proverbs is certainly the book most amenable to division into verses.
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I chose "balkanization" to connote the things you reference; the atomic quoting of verses of scripture does violence to the text. Verses are definitely not functionally paragraphs. Some aren't even complete sentences!
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I think my point, though, that the unit of thought in the scriptures is not the atomic verse, still stands. If you'd like to emend "collected works of Jane Austen" to "collected works of 19th century authors", feel
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Sure - by "Christian reading", I mean something like the practice of the ancient church that canonized the scriptures. That there should be normative Christian practice and reading is, perhaps, controversial, but a claim I'm
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The gold standard for the Greek text of the New Testament is the critical edition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Testamentum_Graece ) published by Nestle-Aland.
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Generally translations are subject to copyright and not considered inspired by Christians. There are a small minority of folks who consider the KJV an inspired translation, but that translation is too old for copyright law to speak to it.
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One of the most interesting things to happen to the scriptures is their balkanization into verses. We generally don't atomize other writings that way, and when folks read the scriptures as a series of disconnected logical propositions
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A fun thought experiment is to noodle through whether, given the method of choosing cities described, the choice of map projection would influence the resulting list of cities.
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JPEG is good for display. If you want to do any sort of analysis on the image, you'll want a lossless format that can handle multiple channels and the georeferencing metadata. TIFF is pretty good for that. There are a bunch depending o
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As a teacher who uses versioned TeX for all of my artifacts, this isn’t the panacea you hope for. Many of my documents will only compile on my machine because I a have a bunch of dependencies scattered about. There are also many types of ar
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Taboo is the exact right word for that. In particular, the Gracchi violated an unspoken and unwritten compact that governed the behavior of the Roman aristocracy. In particular, they attempted to secure power for themselves using avenues no
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How much HTP would you need for the launch escape system?
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As someone who has pushed pretty hard towards precise definition and rigor as a teacher, you're in the (happy!) minority being able to approach mathematics that way. For lots of students, the process of moving from definitions and simp
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There are some gentle efforts in that direction (tau radians for example), but mathematical notation is old (except the parts that are new). And it's really hard to strike the right balance between concision and ambiguity.
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We explicitly encourage the "let's invent name for this similar but unnamed thing" with our students, and use whatever name they come up with for the thing for the rest of their time with us. Sometimes those student created n
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This is definitely a good explanatory strategy (and one that I'd use). I might label the units of the right side as well. Would you attempt to explain the abstract rules of fraction arithmetic as an system?

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