A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
See the very good article from BAS When the Sons of God Cavorted with the Daughters of Men by Ronald S. Hendel, Summer 1987. The PDF is in his directory in Dropbox. Dr. Hendel speaks of much more than the title implies. He shows how the Hebrew relates to similar Canaanite stories as well as how later […]
Continue ReadingThis page is a work in progress, citing scripture that is translated in multiple ways, where both cannot be true. Does God Hate Divorce or the Man? See God on Divorce (Malachi 2:16) – Marg Mows posted a concise article (with the same title as this post) with the correct interpretation of Malachi 2:16. Extracts […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains eight ChatGPT Prompts and Responses about Robyn Faith Walsh’s very interesting article about Paul’s references to heaven that are mistranslated as “heaven” but should be “starry heaven”; thereby obscuring his true meaning and leading the reader to the later theological views. The article is in her directory in DropBox and at Harvard […]
Continue Reading‘Stunning find’: Meet the missing woman in the Bible rediscovered by a BYU researcher An error in Greek manuscripts erased the name of the only woman to receive a New Testament letter – Published: Nov 8, 2025 Extracts from the article are below. A BYU researcher has conclusively recovered the name of the woman who received […]
Continue ReadingMark Goodacre’s NT Pod Episode 104 presents places in the NRSV and NRSVue that translate the same word in the synoptics and John differently, thereby hiding examples of them being the same and in some cases, creating false positives. The transcript of his 15-minute talk is in his directory in DropBox. That transcript was uploaded […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT, 12/14/2021. The tradition of translating certain names of God as LORD in most English Bibles, especially in the Old Testament, stems from a combination of Jewish reverence for the divine name and translation practices that developed over centuries. Here’s a summary of the key reasons: 1. The Divine Name: YHWH (Tetragrammaton) 2. Septuagint […]
Continue ReadingSee Bart Ehrman’s 5-part post series Problems with the NRSV posted in September 2012. Links and extracts are below. Part I; But in the NRSV there is no problem any longer, because of the mistranslation (of John 3:22) (6:1 is a problem even there – – there’s no way to get around the geographical faux […]
Continue ReadingProblems with the King James Version: What Were the Translators Translating? by Bart Ehrman The primary subject of his post is; As a result, translations into English of the Greek New Testament, based on Erasmus’s editions and those that replicated, more or less, his text, include translations of passages that were almost certainly not originally […]
Continue ReadingLost in Translation: The Redeemer in the Book of Job is NOT Jesus! The content of the handout he reads from is below. Job 19:23: “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24 Oh thatwith an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever! […]
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