Monica Cellio

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Aug 29	wiki	created saul excerpt
Aug 29	wiki	created samuel description
Aug 29	wiki	created samuel excerpt
Aug 29	revised	zechariah wiki excerpt deleted 7 characters in body
Aug 28	revised	Does Jesus's change in attitude about drinking wine on the cross relate to his statement ‘It is finished’? deleted 3 characters in body; edited title
Aug 27	answered	What is the meaning of the reference to 'stones' in Ecclesiastes 3?
Aug 27	revised	Is there a general way to know if a psalm or prophecy is talking about a tribe, a person or a mythical beast? added last paragraph (per comment)
Aug 27	answered	Is there a general way to know if a psalm or prophecy is talking about a tribe, a person or a mythical beast?
Aug 24	comment	Who is Wisdom in Proverbs @MonikaMichael, God is sometimes called "Shekhina", which is feminine, in later writings but not in the bible. (I had thought there was a use of this in prophets but I was wrong.)
Aug 22	comment	Who is Wisdom in Proverbs @JesseLedbetter, that's correct -- wisdom (חָכְמָה) and understanding (בוּנָה), both in v1, are feminine. So is "torah". But you have to be a little careful with linguistic gender; when a language requires all nouns to have gender, what do you do with the ones that don't have a "natural" one? (God is called by both masculine and feminine names, by the way.)
Aug 20	comment	Does Job's “covenant with [his] eyes” refer to marriage? Jon, I aim for completeness. :-) ("With" in English can mean both -- "with this ring I be wed" versus "I make a covenant with you" -- and I've seen translation-based issues come up here before. So, y'know, just covering the bases...)
Aug 20	comment	Does Job's “covenant with [his] eyes” refer to marriage? And just in case the question comes up, I don't see room in the Hebrew to interpret this "with" as agency. I.e. Job isn't using his eyes to make a covenent with an un-named other; the covenant is between him and his eyes.
Aug 20	answered	Who is Wisdom in Proverbs
Aug 19	comment	Are we to consider texts such as Song of Songs 2:3 to be euphemistically sexual? As @BlessedGeek says, Song of Songs predates Christianity. Including this book in the Hebrew bible was controversial because of the clear sexual overtones; the rabbis interpreted it to be about the relationship between God and Israel, I've been taught.
Aug 19	comment	How is it that Jesus could be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”? My (novice!) impression is that they all agree that the crucifixion was on a Friday but they disagree on whether it was Nisan 14 (day before Passover, the day the lamb would be slaughtered) or Nisan 15 (Passover, holiday). Nisan 14 makes more sense for both practical and symbolic reasons.
Aug 17	comment	How is it that Jesus could be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”? @BruceAlderman, thanks for that addition. Greek would seem to be the relevant language here rather than Hebrew. Also, Mike, courtesy ping: hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/2300/208.
Aug 17	answered	How is it that Jesus could be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”?
Aug 16	comment	How is it that Jesus could be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”? 5. The "it" in Ex. 12 is an artifact of translation into English. The Hebrew is וַיְהִי , literally "3p masc was (vav conversive)', idiomatically "and it came to pass".
Aug 16	comment	How is it that Jesus could be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”? 3. The doctrinal assertions in your answer weaken it; they would be more appropriate on C.SE. You should return to the revision of your note 6 that @JonEricson made, at minimum. 4. The invitation to chat instead of having this discussion here still stands.
Aug 16	comment	How is it that Jesus could be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”? 1. Your argument for adding an extra day to the holiday is that it would take too long to do in one day; if so, then you need to account for there not being enough time for their already-existing dough to rise before they left. The exodus was full of miracles; is assembly really a problem? 2. You're doing a lot of gymnastics to support a counter-intuitive reading of the dates, and you don't even need to do that. If you want to say the crucifixion happened on a Thursday, just do it -- you're not assrting a year, you don't need to reinterpret Passover.