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Jesus -- Freed us from death by dying (and conquering death): Rom 5.18, Heb 2.14-17, 1 Cor 15.21 Freed us from daily sacrifices by becoming a sacrifice: Heb 7.27 Freed us from the Law's curse, by becoming a curse: Gal 3.13 Freed us from the Law, by being born subject to the Law: Gal 4.4-5 … Continue reading After reading Hebrews
Huck Finn's dilemma: send his friend Jim back to slavery as he has been taught he must do, or go against his church's teaching by helping Jim to escape, and then go to eternal hell as punishment I've started reading David Bentley Hart's "That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell and Universal Salvation." It is … Continue reading That All Shall Be Saved
I am at the moment still studying the Book of Job, but I wanted to make a quick note on an insight I picked up concerning Proverbs. Proverbs is sometimes thought to offer simplistic morality, in which the righteous are rewarded for their faith in God and the wicked are reliably punished. When I read … Continue reading Robert Alter’s reading of Proverbs
My two favorite, and possibly the best, translators of the Bible today were interviewed together on a podcast about a year ago: https://mindingscripture.com/episode-4-translation-of-scripture/ Speaking broadly and perhaps simply, Robert Alter produced a translation of the Hebrew Bible that shows in English that the original was great literature, while David Bentley Hart produced a New Testament … Continue reading Podcast with Robert Alter and David Bentley Hart