Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Ezra Taft Benson Making Open Theistic-Leaning Comments During the October 1981 General Conference

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 Many Latter-day Saints who are not Open Theists tend to be inconsistent. As one notable example:   In 1832, he prophesied that the sout...
Monday, May 4, 2026

Scriptural Mormonism Podcast Episode 100: Noah Airmet on Covenantal Non-Dogmatism

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  Episode 100: Noah Airmet on Covenantal Non-Dogmatism

Dale A. Brueggemann on the Egyptian Background to Luke 16:19-31

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   Another Egyptian descent story is that of Setne and his son, Si-Osire. In this story, an Egyptian is allowed to return to the land of t...

Stephen De Young (EO) on Josephus's Comments about the Old Testament Canon in Against Apion

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 Commenting on Josephus, Contra Apion , 1.37-44:   Josephus does not merely express this grouping of texts to be the Scriptures accordin...

Robert Alter on Isaiah 5:7

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   justice . . . jaundice . . . righteousness . . . wretchedness . This translation proposes English equivalents for the Hebrew wordplay, ...

Robert Alter on שְׂכִיָּה (KJV: Pictures) in Isaiah 2:16

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   lovely crafts . The translation follows a scholarly proposal for the noun sekhiyot , but its meaning is obscure, and the conclusion abo...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Radak (David Kimhi) on Jeremiah 17:9

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   Radak on Jeremiah 17:9:1 עקוב הלב. לפי שדבר על הבטחון שהוא רע כשישים בטחונו באדם וזה תלוי בכונת הלב כמו שאמר ומן ה' יסור לבו כמו ...