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Apr 6	comment	What is the evidence for the existence of the Q document? Agree with @RonMaimon. At this point, any evidence for Q exist only in the overlap, difference, and development of common themes, and would be based on similarities in the text as received.
Apr 6	comment	Does Gen 1:1 refer to day 1 or the entire 6 days of creation? @JackDouglas Reading it as literature, it could very well be something akin to what you're describing - an inclusio.
Apr 5	comment	What is the difference between “righteous” and “just” in the NT? thanks. So many times, in attempts to cover all angles, I use too many words and just wind up in Germany when I wanted to go to Turkey.
Apr 5	comment	What is the difference between “righteous” and “just” in the NT? While this is absolutely true, there is still interpretation required in order to determine the subject/objects of the verb.
Apr 5	comment	What is the difference between “righteous” and “just” in the NT? Hi :). I was wondering if you could post a link to what I wrote that you may have misinterpreted. Sometimes I lose focus in the middle of typing and am not so clear. Thanks
Apr 4	comment	Does Moses Speak Broken Hebrew? Fascinating observation (though I've not actually sat down and run through the translation myself). You've acknowledge the potential for difference due to what would have been an Egyptian education for Moses. Moses himself said that he was a poor speaker (in his argument with the burning bush). I guess the question is left to the source/author of Exodus. If it is, as tradition holds, Moses himself, then wouldn't the poor grammar hold throughout and not contrast so sharply with the "surrounding prose?"
Mar 29	comment	Did Ruth uncover Boaz' feet, or something else? @ThomasShields that's a new reading that I've never heard (not that I'm some sort of OT scholar). I am going to mull that one over.
Mar 23	revised	Did Ruth uncover Boaz' feet, or something else? corrected the word imply to infer since Affable Greek is making an inference and not an implication.
Mar 23	suggested	suggested edit on Did Ruth uncover Boaz' feet, or something else?
Mar 23	comment	What breed of dog was Tobiah's dog? I agree, @MonicaCellio.
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? For the record, @LanceRoberts, I do not disagree with your conclusion and do believe it to be Biblically defensible. It's the flat denial of the validity and value of the S-H method as a tool for Biblical interpretation.
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? @LanceRoberts Yet if "the most important criteria when interpreting a passage of scripture is to look at other scriptures" then I would hope that you would include a broader range of passages to more fully develop a perspective on this. My original scope of "occasion" was too narrow, for that I apologize. Socio-Historical criticism would certainly allow for a greater acceptance of social factors, pressures, and responses that both gave rise to, and resulted from the writing. G-H would primarily focus on addressing "why" and then moving on, unless I am mistaken.
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? @LanceRoberts I take issue with your flatly denying the value of Socio-cultural hermeneutic. In doing this one would completely disregard the occasion for writing. Your approach of using other verses is also a valid tool, but does not allow access to the differences in the literature (namely the audience and purpose for writing). I also noticed that you omitted 1 Peter 3, but will assume that was unintentional.
Mar 21	comment	What does “Under the Sun” mean in Ecclesiastes? +1 for doing the legwork and research.
Mar 21	comment	Why, in Ezekiel 28, is the King of Tyre conflated with Lucifer? It's a literary approach. Read it as the narrative unfolds.
Mar 21	comment	What does “Under the Sun” mean in Ecclesiastes? I guess the way I view this approach is that it is an attempt to press what one hopes the meaning to be into service and cause it to fit. Further research would need to be done in order to validate without God as a reasonable interpretation. Perhaps within other Biblical texts, then other contemporary Jewish literature, and then with other contemporary literature.
Mar 20	comment	What role should textual (lower) criticism play in biblical hermeneutics (if any)? Are you still seeking a better answer for this?
Mar 19	comment	What are the arguments in favor of Matthean Priority? Fair enough and very true. However, there are the same issues that Q "addresses" that would still need to be resolved. Q seems to be the most commonly-held resolution.
Mar 19	answered	What are the arguments in favor of Matthean Priority?
Mar 19	answered	What are the arguments in favor of Markan priority?