Tag: text criticism
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Study Notes – Psalm 48
We are studying Psalm 48 for Sunday, February 10. The psalm extols Zion as the symbol of God’s (YHWH’s) greatness and guidance. [Study questions on the text are here.] Here are my notes on the text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: Psalm 48 is one of the psalms – that is, one of the musical, liturgical texts…
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Maybe Not the Smartest Group
There’s a text critical issue in Judges 7:4-6 – the story of who God picks to go with Gideon to attack the Midianites! It turns on what it means to “kneel” and “lap like a dog.” Different versions, it turns out, resolve it differently. NRSV makes the “lappers” out to be the ones who put…
Matters of Interpretation 