a Biblical scholar who arranges side-by-side excerpts from the first three Gospels to show their resemblances in event, chronology, and language. —synoptic,adj. Targumist 1.the writer of a Targum, a translation or paraphrase into Aramaic of a portion of the Old Testament. ...
In Before the Scrolls, Mastnjak argues that by attending to biblical texts’ materiality and being aware of how the conceptual category of book history shapes our critical questions, we ought to “imagine a much looser assemblage of textual objects,”“a shelf . . . full of scrolls, sheets,...
Until we have the means of rectifying them, every attempt to put forth a definite scheme of Egyptian chronology is simply futile. The appeal to authority avails nothing here. Lepsius, Bunsen, Brugsch, and many more, all claim to have settled the matter. Their very discrepancies — on the ...
Yet in fact, the chronology of the book’s composition make the theory impossible. Only the other week a reviewer said that a fairy-tale by my friend Roger Lancelyn Green was influenced by fairy-tales of mine. Nothing could be more probable. I have an imaginary country with a beneficent ...
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Continue reading“Week 44: Daniel” The hand of the Lord came upon me. He brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. ...