Category: Hot Takes
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On the Authorship of Scripture
Last week I wrote a bit about why Spinoza was interested in interpretation of the Bible — in a nutshell, the better we do it, the harder it is for people to abuse Scripture to their own ends. We see them advancing false notions of their own as the word of God and seeking to…
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On the Interpretation of Scripture
The Moses Chronicles has been on a bit of a hiatus. I’ll spare you the details, but the world is a bit of a wreck at the moment, and middle age has hit hard. Anyway, I am hoping now to post more regularly. Thanks for sticking with me. I am in the process of wrapping…
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A Good, Swift Kick in the Gut
I will rebuke your descendants, and I will throw shit on your faces—the shit of your festival offerings—and you will be carried off to the shitpile along with it. — Malachi 2:3 Translations of the Bible are often too nice, so much so that the real meaning gets lost. The fact is, the Bible confronts…
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