In an earlier blog, I suggested that passages traditionally understood by distinguishing between “positional” and “conditional” reality would be better perceived as NT uses of the OT rhetorical device known as the “prophetic perfect.” Having briefly made that case, I would like to take it one more tentative step. Let me first of all say [...]
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A Moment on the Edge
Posted in Bookman, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Prophetic Perfect on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 »
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 [...]
Just How Old Was Saul?
Posted in Bookman, Old Testament, Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old, Saul on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I would like to suggest an understanding of an Old Testament passage which is dependent upon a discussion in an earlier blog entry which can be found here. Quite simply, that discussion considered a peculiar Hebrew idiom, the most familiar expression of which is the numerical proverbs found occasionally in the book of Proverbs. It [...]
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 [...]
