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2025-01-03T08:26:50-05:00

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The Abraham Saga Begins– Part Two

Last updated on: January 3, 2025 at 8:26 am By Ben Witherington

Gen. 13 continues the theme of Abram and his kin being nomads, living in tents. At some point, Lot will shift to living in a town or village, namely Sodom, and from the view of the narrator, this almost always spells trouble, living with people who do not honor the Biblical God. Notice that we are told at the outset of the chapter that Abram and kin leave Egypt heavily laden with cattle, silver, and gold. You should not picture... Read more

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2025-01-02T15:48:25-05:00

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The Abraham Saga Begins– Part One

Last updated on: January 2, 2025 at 3:48 pm By Ben Witherington

When last we left Abram at the end of Gen. 11, he and his father and extended family had journey from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran, which today stands in Turkey on the border with Syria. We’ve already been told they are headed for Canaan, but unfortunately, Abram’s father Terah died in Haran. It is here at the beginning of Gen. 12 of a story that will last into Gen. 25— the longest single saga that focus’ on one... Read more

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Abram's sojourns.

2024-12-30T15:24:32-05:00

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Young Saul at Shabbat Camp

Last updated on: December 30, 2024 at 3:24 pm By Ben Witherington

Actually, what Saul wrote was a song (to the tune of the classic ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’) Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Here I am at Camp Masada, It is very inspiring, And they say we’ll have good fun after perspiring. The food here isn’t manna Every breakfast a banana Or we can have a sandwich sand made or mud, I can’t tell which. We’ve memorized So many laws And practiced stoning, I need some gauze. Do... Read more

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2024-12-30T14:24:34-05:00

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Steamrolling into the New Year

Last updated on: December 30, 2024 at 2:24 pm By Ben Witherington

Chip Davis is now 77 years old, and I’m quite sure he could not have imagined 50 years worth of producing records, and then concerts that led to the selling of 50 million records. For 40 of those years he has done Mannheim Steamroller Christmas concerts, and though he no longer tours with the band, they are still going great guns, now with two separate groups on tour. We got the benefit of the green tour group on Dec. 29th... Read more

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2024-12-27T17:07:19-05:00

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No Direction Home— the Bob Dylan Movie

Last updated on: December 27, 2024 at 5:07 pm By Ben Witherington

For those, like myself, who were not paying that much attention to folk music in the early 60s, the Bob Dylan I came to know was the Bob who was already electric, rock and roll Bob from 1965 on. I did not have his earliest albums, in fact I began with Blonde on Blonde, but that forced me to go back and pay attention to what he had done before, and what he kept doing afterwards— including country music (Nashville... Read more

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2024-12-24T11:10:31-05:00

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I Done Told You to Take That Tree Down Before a Cat-astrophe

Last updated on: December 24, 2024 at 11:10 am By Ben Witherington

Back at the dawn of time. (i.e. B.C. before cellphone, before computer) we had a red tabby cat named Yellowball, who decided one night during the Christmas season to climb the Christmas tree while no one was looking, bringing the whole thing down, and breaking various of the bubble lights which we loved so much. I wish I could have seen his face at the time, before he hid for hours under my bed, knowing he had done something terribly... Read more

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2024-12-23T10:13:40-05:00

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73, and Still Plugging along

Last updated on: December 23, 2024 at 10:13 am By Ben Witherington

President Tennent: ‘Ben you realize retirement is not in the Bible. Rest is in the Bible, so get more rest, and don’t think about retirement’. So I resolved for the first time in my life to take afternoon naps. For as the Bard said “Sleep which knits up the raveled sleeve of care. Sleep, the best medicine.” Read more

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retired means to be tired over and over again.

2024-12-23T08:58:52-05:00

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What Difference Can a Literal Translation Make– Part Eight

Last updated on: December 23, 2024 at 8:58 am By Ben Witherington

Gen. 11 provides us with most scholars see as the end of the pre-history, or archaic more universal history portion of Genesis, after which the focus in Gen. 12-50 is on Abraham and his descendants. Tbe problem with this sort of clear demarcation is that the genealogies clearly link the former to the latter, as do other factors. And as Robert Alter points out the story of the tower of Babel has often been misread as if it were about... Read more

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The Tower of Babble

2024-12-22T16:12:54-05:00

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What Difference Can a Literal Translation Make– Part Seven

Last updated on: December 22, 2024 at 4:12 pm By Ben Witherington

Genesis 8 tells the story of the aftermath of the flood. Here we are told that after 150 days the waters subsided and the ark landed on ‘the mountains of Ararat’. God commands Noah to leave the ark with all those in it, including all the creatures great and small and they are to start reproducing again. Noah builds an altar and made offerings of every clean animal in thanks, and the text adds “And the Lord smelled the fragrant... Read more

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2024-12-22T08:46:13-05:00

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What Difference Can a Literal Translation Make– Part Six

Last updated on: December 22, 2024 at 8:46 am By Ben Witherington

The beginning of Gen. 6 includes one of the most controversial passages in the whole book, a passage speculated about throughout Biblical history, including in the NT (see e.g. Jude, and 2 Pet. 2, and my lengthy study on this passage and its ongoing influence in Jesus the Seer). The early Jewish interpretation of this passage is important. The text, in Alter’s translation reads as follows: “as humankind began to multiply. over the earth and daughters were born to them,... Read more

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