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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
From Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
Posted in Bookman, Siberia, Tomsk on May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When I was in Romania a few years ago, a new friend – our translator – gave me a vocabulary quiz. Herewith I share it with you.
Question #1: What is the term for a person who speaks many languages?
Answer #1. He is a polyglot.
Question #2: What is the term for a person who speaks two [...]
From Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
Posted in Bookman, Sergei Taranov, Siberia, Tomsk on May 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am sitting in the 4th story, 4-room flat of Dr. Sergey Taranov. This is the apartment which the Communist government provided Sergey and his wife, Galina, in 1971. In construction and accoutrements, it is like every other apartment in the building, which looks like every other building on the street. I am no little [...]
Enroute to Siberia
Posted in Bookman, Siberia, Tomsk on May 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Enroute to Tomsk, Siberia in Russia
I feel compelled to begin this exercise in public journaling with this stipulation: I acknowledge that there is a measure of impertinence intrinsic to the notion that any portion of the world that has access to the internet might find it interesting or profitable to follow the course of my [...]
