Category: The Future of Pentateuchal Studies
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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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Why We CAN Read the Torah, Fractures and All
We run up against it from the very beginning. In the first chapter of Genesis we read that “God created the man in his image; in the image of God he created him—male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27), but it’s not long before God creates humans again (Genesis 2:7). God tells Noah to bring two…
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