Recent content by Deacon

I’d presume you asked the question because you wanted to know whether it would be worth your while to spend time learning one. The truth is that the translators of our bibles do a very good job at their task. You probably will not have any grand epiphanies learning them but it will change how...

Yeah, yeah, but then WHY is it right? Rob

I found a few interesting books in the collection. I've already mentioned one in an earlier post: The Resultant Greek Testament by Richard Francis Weymouth (1892, a first edition!) And I found a signed copy of a text by J.B. Phillips (a notable early dynamic equivalence/paraphrase...

Regarding the Hebrew word, Mishnah, translated "college" in 2 Kgs 22:14 = 2 Chr 34:22 of the AV: The Hebrew word mišneh, means “second,” "...but it can also have the nuance of “expansion/increase as a result of doubling”; thus one could translate mišneh as “annex”' Herion, Gary A. 1992...

Basements tend to be rather humid... a bad place to store books. I've had quite a few people drop off books... I may keep 3 or 4, the rest get piled on my give-a-way table. Rob

I’m enjoying working with LibraryThing & TinyCat. The TinyCat site is developing daily as I tag and categorize the books. I even added the church’s logo this morning. So far I haven’t had to pay for it but as soon as I go public with it there will be a small charge ($6-8 dollars a month). I’ve...

Reminiscences Of The Life And Labor Of A. D. Gillette By His Friends And Associates: Horatio Gates Jones, Thomas Armitage, R. S. MacArthur, And George W. Samson [Amazon link] Paperback Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kessinger Publishing Publication date: ‎ September 10, 2010 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1162995203 ISBN-13...

One of my field trips was to scout out the local library... looking for ideas. Unfortunately, local libraries (even here in the Bible Belt) are focused on things antithetical to godly living. MY CHURCH LIBRARY PHILOSOPHY parallels the pastor's: To cultivate a space of wisdom, exploration, and...

Does your church have a library? How is it organized? Who runs or maintains it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I recently joined a congregation and was given the responsibility of organizing their library of about 2000 books. It's probably been 10 years since anyone took an interest in the books...

I have my comfort zone and I have my biblically-based opinion, but I wouldn't force another church body to agree with me. It's a grey area for me. I can understand those churches that support the option of women as ministers of the faith. I'm fairly well read in the topic; In fact, I've got 7...

“But thou art the same...” (Psalm 102:27a, AV 1873) “וְאַתָּה־ה֑וּא” (Psalm 102:28, BHS OT) Transliterated: "w attah hu" hu , is an undifferentiated pronoun (it can be, he, she or it) Examples: *Genesis 2:19 "that was its name" (ESV) or "that was the name" (AV) *Genesis 3:20 "she [Eve] became"...