Monthly Archives: August 2008

Regarding the cross, trees and gibbets

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 20, 2008
As part of my Wednesday wilderness of words reading, I was looking at a 2004 article by Michael Marlowe on Against the Theory of ‘Dynamic Equivalence’ via a link from John Hobbins. In his essay, Marlowe cites an example from the NLT1 that failed to preserve internal references to the Hebrew language by NT authors: Now [...]
Posted in bible translation, bible verses | 3 Comments

Random thought on the Tetragrammaton issue

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 20, 2008
Iyov has been following the recent Vatican directive reminding episcopal conferences “to remove all vocalizations of the Tetragrammaton” out of respect to Jews and Jewish tradition. He quotes from a recent letter by Bishop Serratelli (chair of the US Bishop’s Committee on Divine Worship: “the name of almighty God expressed by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and rendered [...]
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On being Googlized and other random blogging thoughts

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 20, 2008
I’m giving up on Bloglines, or at least the beta version that never seems to end. I like the Bloglines format more than anything else, but, as far as I can tell, the beta is missing basic functionality like sharing folders via RSS feeds and/or Javascript, meaning you have to bounce between beta and the [...]
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The thrill of the Rapture

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 19, 2008
Well… as long as we’re on this topic, here’s more eschatological fun: HT: Greg Willson (click for more photos and video)
Posted in eschatology, humor | 4 Comments

I am not Mark Biltz

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 19, 2008
In the video from yesterday’s “blood moon” post, Steve Hadley mentions that he originally saw this material presented by Mark Biltz, a messianic Jew with a church in Washington state. After digging around the original GodTube.com posting, I discovered the name of Biltz’s ministry… are you ready for this? El Shaddai Ministries At least that’s more on [...]
Posted in humor, kingdom living, worship | 2 Comments