Gendered Language and God

Here is an interesting article about gendered language and its use to describe God at Ancient Hebrew Poetry. The blogger asks this question in relationship to a work entitled “On Beyond Gender: Representation of God in the Torah and in Three Recent Renditions into English” by David E. S. Stein, “Is the biblical God a [...]


Links of the Day

John F. Hobbins over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry has a great little bit about the nature of confessional scholarship nestled in a great gut check post on the complegalitarian debate.

As a confessionally engaged biblical scholar, I have a bottom line: it should be possible to discuss the meaning of biblical texts with the intention of [...]


More on Genesis 1 and its Genre

Here is an excellent post from Ancient Hebrew Poetry on the genre of Genesis 1 that might help in the discussion of the previous post on Genesis 1:1-2. However, since this deals with the genre of the text, I thought it best to post this as a separate thread. I’m curious about what all who [...]