Daily Archives: June 30, 2011

Suffering Suffixes, or Interfixes, or I Don’t Know Whiches

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I’m no linguist and morphology confuses me but there’s something that’s been on my mind lately and it’s the substitution of “o” for “al” as in historico- rather than historical-. When is it appropriate to say historico-grammatical rather than historical-grammatical? … Continue reading →

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Yahoel and Jesus

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More than a few people who argue against the deity of Christ have pointed to the angel Yahoel from the Apocalypse of Abraham as an example of a creature who can bear the divine name without being God. The argument … Continue reading →

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Why I Hate Preaching Proverbs

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Last week my pastor assigned different passages of Scripture to different ministers and asked them each to prepare a 10 minute message on them. I got Proverbs 10:9. Last night at Bible study we did the same thing, only this … Continue reading →

Posted in Church Stuff, Old Testament | 11 Comments