I mentioned a few weeks ago that myfive-year-old son is learning Hebrew, using the materials fromSarah and David. Part of his learning process was to re-shape his English bathtub letters into Hebrew ones, as noted and picturedhere. Now (thanks, Diana!) he has real ones: And he’s pr...
To this class of errors belongs the very frequent phenomenon of homoeoteleuton, i.e. omission of a passage which has an ending exactly like another passage which comes next before or after it. A similar thing happens when several phrases beginning with the same words come together. Secondly,...
Psalm 34 is David’s response of gratitude to God for delivering him from this perilous situation. It serves as both a personal thanksgiving and an instructional piece, urging others to “taste and see that the Lord is good” (verse 8). David uses his experience to emphasize themes of God...
The position in favor of infant baptism seeks its grounding in the words of this verse – the promise is not just ‘for you’ but also ‘for your children.’ Let’s look at this in more detail. Theological Relevance Theologically speaking, Acts 2:39 illustrates the broad embrace of God’...
Did she totally understand what that meant? And the words of Simon who told her a sword would pierce her own heart had to make her pause and wonder what the future would hold – for her – for Joseph – and especially for her son. ...
Welcome to Wanda Luthman’s Christian & Children’s Book Blog! I hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving whomever celebrates that special holiday about gratitude. Today, I have an ambassador, Dean Thompson, for a group of books that carry wonderful messages… ...
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Goody’s work on the social and cognitive impact of writing supports Kelber’s argument about the ‘artificiality’ of the tables, but also suggests that far from merely closing the biblical text, the canon tables in fact open it up to new types of analysis thanks to the decon-textualized...