Jon Ericson

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My day-to-day work is with a combination of C, ksh and PL/SQL. I enjoy asking and answering questions that come up at work. I also dabble in Perl, lua and LaTeX. My boss has asked me to learn Python as well.

I'm married, with three children: a son and a set of mixed-gender twins.

My favorite living philosopher is Alvin Plantinga and my favorite dead philosopher is Blaise Pascal. I think Paul of Tarsus is too little credited as a force in Western philosophy. If you think I'm a Christian, you're right.

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (ESV)

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Nov 14	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? @Monica Cellio: I've heard so many times that commerce at the Temple was corrupt that I assumed it was. But I'd like to have a source other then my Sunday School teachers (who are probably the best analogue in the Protestant tradition to midrash), but I haven't found any so far. I'll keep looking as I have time.
Nov 12	comment	How many people were involved in the Exodus? A related question exists on the Skeptics site.
Nov 11	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? Thanks for taking a risk to answer a New Testament question. Clearly the idea of "civil disobedience" is a couple thousand years anachronistic. ;-) Your answer brings up an interesting question: how much commerce was allowed in the temple?
Nov 10	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? @GalacticCowboy: Right. I think both views would agree that Jesus was correcting injustice and disrupting commerce; those phrases could probably be swapped at will. (It's a hard question to ask neutrally and without bias. I tried not to use overly-loaded terms.)
Nov 10	comment	What is the “clear sign” in Philippians 1:28? I already gave you my +1, but I do appreciate the clarification.
Nov 10	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? I didn't at all initiate the conversation despite trying to think about how the Bible talks about peace this week.
Nov 10	comment	What is the “clear sign” in Philippians 1:28? So to round off the answer: "[Your manner of life] is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God." I can see how the phrase after "but" works, but how is their manner a sign of destruction to their opponents?
Nov 10	comment	What is the difference between exegesis and hermeneutics? Welcome to Biblical Hermeneutics! Good summation.
Nov 10	comment	How does the Noah's Ark narrative relate to the Gilgamesh flood account? Just so you know, the question was marginally off-topic and so this type answer, which doesn't talk about the text except in passing, probably wouldn't fly for other questions. We really would like to push the hermeneutics angle over the Biblical angle. ;-)
Nov 10	comment	Why is “rega`” translated “peace” in Job 21:13? I agree the context signals a good end for the wicked, but it seems to me that if all go to Sheol, which I think is the cosmology of Job, going quickly at the end of long, prosperous days is actually a pretty favorable fate.
Nov 10	comment	Why is “rega`” translated “peace” in Job 21:13? Welcome to Biblical Hermeneutics! And thanks for the answer.
Nov 10	comment	What are the main tenets of the contextual analysis hermeneutical approach? @GalacticCowboy: The link reminds me that genre is often important context. I'll need to update my answer after thinking about my framework some. Thanks for the pointers.
Nov 9	comment	What is the head covering referring to in 1 Corinthians 11:4-6? +1: Excellent work! I better not follow too many of those links or there goes my day. ;-) (This article makes me wish I had an army of sock-puppets to up-vote it.)
Nov 9	comment	Why is “rega`” translated “peace” in Job 21:13? Even the NJPS uses "peace" in this verse. That shocked me.
Nov 9	comment	What is the meaning behind the parable of Children in the Marketplace in Luke 7:31-35? ¡Bienvenidos a BH.SE! Thanks for the question. I have some ideas, but they may be as shallow as what you already know. Let me poke around a bit to see if I can find anything else.
Nov 8	comment	“Back in ships to Egypt” in Deut. 28 +1: But what about the "ships"?
Nov 8	comment	What does Jesus mean in Matthew 26:64 with “You have said so”? Good call. Now I wonder why Matthew might have changed the wording of the answer to claim a bit less? (One answer is that he was working from a different source in the Passion account. The Synoptic connection starts to break down at the end of the various gospels as the authors turn to their own, unique narratives.)
Nov 8	comment	What does “reconciling all things” mean in Colossians 1:20? +1: I had to answer myself before I could be sure that I agree. ;-)
Nov 8	comment	What do we learn from the different usages of “aman” and “batach” in the OT? Thank you for helping me understand.
Nov 8	comment	What do we learn from the different usages of “aman” and “batach” in the OT? If your life depended on knowing the relationship of the length the hypotenuse to the sides of a right triangle (because of the structural integrity of the platform you are standing on or some such), might you have boteach in the Pythagorean theorem? (I think I understand, but I want to verify.)