Being an attempt to make full proof of the following proposition:
The writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek, but they thought in Hebrew.
In my mind, one of the most compelling evidences of that remarkable intellectual habit of mind is that Hebrew grammatical nuances – forms which are foreign to the Greek language – are [...]
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Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old III
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Prophetic Perfect on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Paralytic
Posted in Bookman, Jesus' Deity, Jesus' Humanity, Life of Christ, New Testament on June 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Recently a friend posed a question relating to the story of the palsied man lowered through the roof in Capernaum (Mt 9:1-8), and specifically to Jesus’ offer of forgiveness in that pericope. Basically, the question had to do with the apparent incongruity of a man offering forgiveness. The question included the suggestion (rejected by the [...]
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old II
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Siberia, Tomsk on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old II
Being an attempt to make full proof of the following proposition:
The writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek, but they thought in Hebrew.
The Old Testament thought form
There is a curious Hebraism which is very common in the Old Testament, but which [...]
Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old I
Posted in Bookman, New Testament, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Siberia, Tomsk on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
It is my persuasion that one of the most important and defining hermeneutical insights to be brought to the interpretation of the New Testament is this: the writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek, but they thought in Hebrew. This is true to a degree more dramatic in some [...]
