Faith & Scripture

The Church seems really to be struggling for relevance in many parts of the west and church numbers are in decline. She senses afresh the need to act in a living expression of God’s love for a broken world, to reach out and not suck in. But some of her language is stuck in the 14th century, creating distance between her and the peoples she is trying to embrace…

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Greek Articles in the Septuagint: From Yahweh to Kyrios to Ho Kyrios?

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FIVE THOUSAND YAHWEH Greek translations have now been categorised, covering Genesis all the way through to Song of Songs - the question at ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Let's Hear It For...... Chronicles!

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THERE AREN'T MANY folks who get excited about the Old Testament books of 1 and 2 Chronicles, so why am I a definite exception to th...
Sunday, 27 May 2018

How My Relationship to Christian Scripture is Changing

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The title of this blog if the last three and a half years has been a good summary of its purpose: faith and scripture. It is the connect...
Sunday, 20 May 2018

When the Old Greek may indicate the oldest and lost Hebrew original: an example from Joshua

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One of the perennial quests of scholars of the Bible is to establish what the original texts said. That sounds pretty easy, you just transl...
Saturday, 19 May 2018

Pentateuch Translations of Yahweh

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HERE IS HOW the translators of the Septuagint went about their initial task of translating the divine name, Yahweh (and the shortened vers...
Sunday, 13 May 2018

From Yahweh to Judas Iscariot

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NO, YOU ARE quite right , there is probably nothing directly connecting these two, but you know me, always trying to think of catchy titles...
Friday, 11 May 2018

How does the Adonai cookie crumble into Greek Yoghurt?

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TODAY, WE’RE AIMING HIGH, attempting to answer the question of how the Hebrew title “Adonai” was translated into Greek. It’s a b...
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