Psalm 119 is one of my favorite (at least top 10) passages in the Bible, especially since I had to memorize it (in the KJV) back when I was about 12 years old. Bob MacDonald is writing a series on it in Hebrew that is well worthwhile following. Start with his Psalm 119" href="http://drmacdonald.blogspot.com/2010/01/psalm-119-part-1-grammar.html" target="_blank">first post.
On January 1 God called two texts to my attention as themes for the year. They are Philippians 1:27-30 and Ephesians 5:1-2. I haven’t said a great deal about this, though the theme of those texts has shown up in a number of posts. Then yesterday I saw Dave Black’s latest translation of Philippians 1:27-30, which I like…
… or any scripture, for that matter. In graduate school I became progressively less interested in listening to sermons or in reading devotional items. While I was very interested in reading poetry, fiction and other non-technical materials, I applied a largely technical approach to scripture and theology. I say this to make clear that I…
Our Sunday School lesson, which I’m not teaching this week, is from James, focusing on chapter 2. I’m not teaching, but in studying, I looked at a book I publish, Holistic Spirituality: Life Transforming Wisdom from the Letter of James. Bruce Epperly makes a number of important comments. I’m going to do a bit of…
While I was off teaching Revelation elsewhere, my Sunday School class at First United Methodist Church of Pensacola studied from Harvey Brown’s new book Forgiveness: Finding Freedom from Your Past. Harvey’s book is just 40 pages (it’s in our Topical Line Drives series, and that’s the limit), and we discovered just how many questions can be…
It is not entirely helpful to include these two sections under the same heading, but there is certainly a break between 5:13 and 5:14, so the division is understandable as Baker does it. We’re moving here to sacrifices that are required, first for inadvertent acts in chapter 4, and then for acts of omission that…
I publish a couple of books that use Acts of the Apostles as a source for principles to guide the 21st century church. I publish such books with a certain amount of trepidation, as it’s very easy to apply material piecemeal, which results in discovering that the biblical book in question tells us to do what…
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Thank-you Henry – I am trying to catch up with my other blog’s series on the Hebrew letters – examining grammar in Ruth. I am hoping the two studies will complement each other and then I hope to be sufficiently ‘fluent’ to continue the Ruth story. Had you ever heard the theory (10th century Saadya) that the Hebrew letters divide into two groups of 11? I have tried it – and I think it is very helpful. The 11 grammatical letters and the 11 others – where grammatical letter is defined as a letter that can form a close enclitic – without maqqep – with words. I have not found the definitive list! So I made up my own. (here is my reasoning). Next time I am at the library I will try and see if I can get another view of this division.
No, I had not heard of that. I’ll be watching to see what you post on it in the future.
In all my recent posts on grammar, I am coloring the grammar green – and the letters of that first group : aleph, bet, he, vav, yod, kaf, lamed, mem, nun, shin, tav help me see the grammar more quickly. I will see if I can make the two series more obvious with links.