Motivation
The power of the Hebrew Bible is its ambiguous language. It encourages YOU to put yourself in the interpretation. The more you read the more you get new insights. Naturally, this is lost in translation. This deliberate ambiguity ensures the Bible remains relevant to anyone, anywhere, any time. It’s as fresh today as it was 3000 years ago.
In our posts we will focus on the language, without referring to any particular religion. After all, a religion is already an interpretation. We will choose different passages or stories, explore different ways of looking at words, structure, and story, and hopefully find new interpretations, which may be less common but still consistent with the text.
Gideon the Judge: Words of Heresy
Today we continue with the story of Gideon in Judges 6:13 . In verse 12 we saw that Gideon met an Angel of God, who greeted him “God is with you, brave man of valour” Gideon’s reply, full of skepticism – nearly heresy – is as relevant to our lives today as it was at…
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Judge Gideon: the Vav that Inverts Time
Judges 6:11 is straight forward verse. So after the translation. instead of focusing on the content, I focused on a common Biblical Hebrew grammar point that many students find confusing – Tense Inversion.
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Gideon the Judge: Facing God’s Angel
In the Bible, Judges 6:11 is the introduction to the story of Gideon, who meets God’s angel for the first time, before he is sent to his mission to free the people of Israel from the Midianites
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PUNISHMENT? – DAY 19 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES
Lot’s wife transformed into a pillar of salt in front of Sodom on fire. Why did she look back? Was her death a punishment given by God?
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FAIR TRIAL – DAY 18 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES
Why does God, himself, need to go down to Sodom, before He destroys the city? What does the Bible teach us about the way judgement should be done?
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