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 [...]
The Holy Spirit in the Old Covenant
Here is an interesting post at the Biblical Theology blog on the Holy Spirit’s activity in the Old Covenant. I thought that in light of Tom’s recent posting that this would provide some food for thought until the next post in Tom’s series of posts. Here is the article.
God with Men in the Torah by [...]
An Installment on the Interaction of Intercourse and Economics
One of the more disconcerting passages in all the Bible is the rape of Tamar, David’s daughter, by her half-brother Amnon (2 Samuel 13). As the narrative goes, Tamar is “loved” by her brother because he was tormented by her beauty. He feigns an illness to be alone with Tamar. When she brings him [...]