Caspianrex
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| Location | Nashville, TN |
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 5/10/2012
I just recently "discovered" Crumb's amazing rendering of Genesis! It really is a marvelous piece of work. There is a wonderful rawness to...
Genesis Crumb alternative comics
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 5/10/2012
That is perplexing. Most translations use the singular pronoun, including the Judaica Press translation found on chabad.org. Could it be t...
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Hear O Israel
Caspianrex Intermediate said on 5/10/2012
This passage is making me seriously question my upbringing as a Christian. I don't think I can reconcile this firm statement of monotheism ...
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/11/2011
P.S. Robert Alter's version is interesting as well: "When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and ...
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/11/2011
I really like Everett Fox's opening of Genesis a lot. I especially like "when the earth was wild and waste": it's a good attempt at retaini...
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Jubilee Year
Caspianrex Intermediate said on 5/8/2011
The whole concept of the Jubilee Year fascinates me! I wonder, how does this pertain to modern concepts of business and economics? I work ...
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/10/2010
I am also reminded of the personification of Justice holding scales. How often the Tanakh speaks of honest scales! Proverbs 16:11 or Micah 6...
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
P.S. How funny is that bit with the Wicked Witch and Dorothy? Excellent.
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
I love G-dcast! SUCH a good site! Entertaining and educational.
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Suffering Servant
Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
Despite the fact that I'm a Christian, I think it's pretty clear that the "suffering servant" in Isaiah is not the Messiah, but rather, a pe...
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
And it's tricky, isn't it, since Noah's first activity after making sacrifices to G-d is to get plastered? I guess it all depends on how we...
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Killing giants
Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
Here's another perspective on the killing of a giant by Elchanan. 2 Sam. 21:19 tells of Elchanan killing "Goliath the Gittite." This passa...
David vs Goliath Elchanan vs Goliath
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Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
This really is a fascinating little textual problem. If you look at various translations, you will see in 2 Sam. 21:19 one of the following:...
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Don't make fun of bald people
Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
I can't help it...I love this little story! This is one they never tell the little kids. It's more violent than any of the Grimm's fairy t...
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Tohu vabohu
Caspianrex Intermediate said on 8/9/2010
Most English translations lose the poetic feel of passages like this. The excellent English translation of the Torah by Emmett Fox (The Fiv...
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I'm a church musician and paid singer with the Nashville Symphony Chorus. More importantly, I'm also a full-time dad.
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