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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Milavec-adapting Jesus and Torah
I am reading Aaron Milavec’s The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary. He moves on to chapter three and four of the Didache. These chapters several times address someone as “my child.” This is a way to address a novice … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Early Church
Tagged Aaron Milavec, gender, sexuality, slavery, The Didache, The Ten Commandments
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Milavec-a new way for displaced people
The main and most interesting part of Aaron Milavec’s The Didache is the commentary. His subtitle is Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary. I had expected the analysis in a separate section, but what he means by analysis is the way he has … Continue reading
Posted in Early Church
Tagged Aaron Milavec, The Didache, the Golden Rule, The Ten Commandments
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You want it darker
Most of us are familiar with Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Bon Jovi even has a version. He has some new stuff out. Here Seth Rogovoy asks if this is not Cohen’s most Jewish song yet: You Want if Darker. The lyrics … Continue reading
Milavec-the Didache as individual training manual
Aaron Milavec’s The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary is my subject again today. Milavec deals with a few introductory questions about the Didache. I’ve already mentioned that he thinks the work comes from the mid-50s of the first century, … Continue reading
Milavec-a preference for the difficult reading
Aaron Milavec, in The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary, devotes several pages to his rendition of the Greek text. He follows this with his English translation. Textual criticism comes into play in understanding the Didache. The text discovered in … Continue reading
Milavec-the Didache and early Christian community
Today I begin writing about The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary by Aaron Milavec. The Didache is an important document because it lies right on the edge between the New Testament and the church fathers. Milavec believes that … Continue reading
Posted in Early Church
Tagged Aaron Milavec, Church Fathers, The Didache, The Gospel of Thomas
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Genesis 1 and chicken sexers
The priests whose views come to us in Genesis 1 believed that God had made humans male and female. This belief laid the foundation for a binary understanding of human sex. Now we have people who claim other genders and orientations. … Continue reading
Ancient hymn from Ugarit
Reading a clay tablet with ancient written music: The notation here is essentially a set of instructions for intervals and tuning based around a heptatonic diatonic scale. There’s much more detail about the precise language and instructions here . The … Continue reading
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Mazar-21st century discoveries and the 10th century BCE
One interesting way that archeology has impinged upon our understanding of the Bible has been the recent discovery that there were massive Bronze Age fortifications near the access to the Jerusalem water system. This casts doubt on the Massoritic text … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Israel
Tagged Amihai Mazar, archeology, the Amara letters, the united kingdom, Yosef Garfinkel
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Mazar-small town, mighty citadel
I am writing about an article by Amihai Mazar (Archaeology and the Biblical Narrative: The Case of the United Monarchy) on the reality of a single kingdom the Hebrew Bible says was ruled over first by David and then by Solomon before it … Continue reading
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Tagged Amihai Mazar, Eliat Mazar, Jerusalem, King David, the united kingdom
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