#Pentateuch

Starting a series of running notes on the #Pentateuch. Not a full commentary, just thoughts, mostly on issues of composition and translation of the #Bible. Hope it's useful/interesting, and hoping
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#Exodus 15:1-18The Song of the SeaI’m honestly not entirely sure how to do this in just a few tweets: multiple entire monographs have been written about this poem, and there
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THREAD: The Flow of Time in Genesis.Certain quirks of the text of Genesis have lead (certain) scholars to posit multiple sources behind it,which (they claim) have been messily spliced together.On
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Ima ask the question cause its time male preachers were more honest.@iammiketodd how do you know about the silhouette challenge and what women are showing under their clothes? This is
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A brief or perhaps medium-size thread in honor of International Septuagint Day. Our family read this book tonight. Simply told and beautiful illustrated. Most of my familiarity with the Septuagint
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#Exodus 4:24-26The Bridegroom of BloodIt’s like the title of a B horror movie, and honestly it’s just as incoherent. One of the most confounding episodes in the entire Pentateuch. Almost
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#Exodus 20:8-11The SabbathIt was a staple of early Christian interpretation - and it remains so today - that of all the hundreds of laws in the Pentateuch, the only ones
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I'm preaching the genealogy of Jesus from Matthew this Sunday. In addition to the themes of God's faithfulness in spite of human failure and God's grace to include "sinners such
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THREAD: What’s a Source for the Goose...SUB-TITLE: The Flood Narrative.In source critical circles, the text of Genesis 6–9 is typically seen as an amalgamation of two independent flood narratives,... ...one
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