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The Bible says what?!
Every once in a while you run across a verse or two that make you pause and scratch at your nose in bewilderment:
Give strong drink to the hapless
And wine to the embittered.
Let them drink and forget their poverty,
And put their troubles out of mind.
Proverbs 31:6-7 (Tanakh Translation, JPS)
These verses are bookended by the admonishments for [...]
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More searching for the original El Shaddai
Suzanne has added two more posts on her discussion of the various translations of El Shaddai:
Psalm 68: Shaddai cont. — Suzanne includes some of my earlier comments on the “God of the Mountain” and “God of Shaddai” possibilities, then quotes from the Jewish Encyclopedia.com on the exegesis of “He is sufficient”: “It is conjectured also [...]
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Searching for the original El Shaddai
As part of her series on Psalm 68, Suzanne has written a new article at Better Bibles titled “Psalm 68: Breasts and Mountains“, in which she explores some of the etymological roots of the ancient name of God, El Shaddai:
“In seeking the meaning or connotation for El Shaddai I have come up with no answers [...]
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Yes, that’s really my name…
I had to chuckle yesterday. I was browsing through my blogroll links, checking out new posts while drinking my morning coffee. Seems like there’s always something new on Iyov’s blog, even if most of it requires more time than I have in the morning to properly digest. In any case, my eye was drawn down [...]
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Signs of the sufficiency of Shaddai