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Daily Archives: August 21, 2011
My Pastor on the Messianic Secret
At church this morning, the pastor offered a sensible interpretation of the Messianic Secret. The Messianic Secret is Jesus keeping secret his Messianic status in the synoptic Gospels. Jesus either did not tell people that he was the Messiah, or … Continue reading
Saul Is Tov
On page 355 of Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Meir Sternberg says the following about King Saul: “‘Saul’—the traditional rendering goes—‘was a handsome [tov] young man. There was not a man among the children of Israel more handsome [tov] than he; … Continue reading
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