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New INDEX of my significant threads & tweets:

BIBLE PASSAGES
Genesis 1-3 (coherence of)

Genesis 2-3 (careful composition)

Genesis 4:9-24 (bigamy)
Genesis 9 (Noah & wine)

Genesis 12 (blessing of Abraham)

Genesis 12, 20, 26 (wife-sister narratives)

Genesis 29:10-13 (wordplay)
Judges (Retribution)

Judges (Samson’s poetry)

Judges (Violence)

Judges (Weapons)
Judges 19-21 (Bible's most gory story)

Judges 19-21 (Even more gory than previously thought)

Judges & Ruth fit together

Ruth

Ruth & 1 Samuel fit together
1 Samuel 13:1

1 Samuel 17 (David & Goliath)

2 Kings 2:23-25 (Elisha & She-bears)

Psalms 1-2 (links)

Psalms 1-15 (Catchwords)
Psalm 37 (Alliteration)

Jeremiah 10:11

Jonah

Matthew (paragraphs)

Matthew 6:13 (and KJV-only-ism)
Matthew 13:33

Luke 1:67-79 (structure)

Luke 13:21

Luke 15 (1st edition)

Luke 15 (2nd expanded edition)
Luke 16 (Rich man & Lazarus)

John 1 (Structure)

John 1 (translation)

Romans 16:16 (holy kiss)
BIBLICAL / THEOLOGICAL BY TOPIC
Alliteration, in English Bibles

Apocrypha, in Protestant Bibles

Apocrypha, non-inclusion by Catholics

Finally (in Paul's letters)
Division of long OT books

Friendship (in Bible)

Friendship (in C.S. Lewis)

Galileans

Greek, Learning

Jesus (linguistics of a name)
Jesus speaking Greek

Jesus speaking Aramaic

Jesus, Knowledge of Latin

Jesus, Use of Latin vocabulary
Marriage (Rare noun in Bible)

Old Testament (reliability)

Paragraphs of NT

Politics (in Bible, summarized)
Rape

Scripture(s) more helpful than Bible

Small government

Sovereignty of God
Tree (significance of)

Verse numbers

Wisdom = fear of God
MISCELLANEOUS
Bilingual texts

North of England

Sex & Gender

Tiberius never existed

Tyndale, William (offspring)

UK Tax year
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Peter J. Williams
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THREAD: Learning Greek to read the New Testament.

For anyone interested in the NT I recommend learning Greek to help you follow details more closely.

This thread reviews some of the ways you can do that.

Others are welcome to use it to advertise their favourite Greek links.
I'm a pedagogical pluralist, which means that I'm happy to encourage many different ways of learning.

The key ingredients for a course or teacher are:

(1) competence
(2) ability to inspire

The order in which you learn topics, or the pronunciation you use matter far less.
I also want to say up front that you should not be afraid of learning a little Greek.

'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing' doesn't apply provided you know that you know little and surround yourself with people who know more.
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THREAD: Wife-Sister narratives in Genesis.

3x in Genesis a patriarch claims his beautiful wife is his sister, from fear of being killed by locals out to get her (chs 12, 20, 26).

Stories are united by the word הָרַג ‘kill’ which does not occur in the intervening narratives.
The narratives are also united by the rebuke of the pagan king to the patriarch:

12:18 ‘What is this you’ve done to us?’ מַה־זֹּ֖את עָשִׂ֣יתָ לִּ֑י

20:9 ‘What have you done to us?’ מֶֽה־עָשִׂ֤יתָ לָּ֙נוּ֙

26:10 ‘What is this you have done to us?’ מַה־זֹּ֖את עָשִׂ֣יתָ לָּ֑נוּ
Each story shares significant features with one other story, but not with both:
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A thread on 'finally' in Paul's letters.

(Thanks to @jeremytreat5 who inspired me to dig)

This usage occurs 6x: 2 Cor 13:11; Eph 6:10; Phil 3:1; 4:8; 1 Thess 4:1; 2 Thess 3:1.

It's furthest from end in Phil 3:1, but still some way to go in 1 Thess 4:1.
Although 5/6 are followed by 'siblings' & mean the same, no two are alike in Greek:

2 Cor 13:11 Λοιπόν, ἀδελφοί
Eph 6:10 Τοῦ λοιποῦ
Phil 3:1 Τὸ λοιπόν, ἀδελφοί μου
Phil 4:8 Τὸ λοιπόν, ἀδελφοί
1 Thess 4:1 Λοιπὸν οὖν, ἀδελφοί
2 Thess 3:1 Τὸ λοιπόν, προσεύχεσθε, ἀδελφοί
'Finally' is a latecomer, mainly an innovation of the KJV (1611).

KJV has 'finally' for 5/6, but 'furthermore' for 1 Thess 4:1.

Then RV & its children (ASV, RSV, ESV) have 'finally' for all 6.

NIV has 'finally', 'further' & 'as for other matters' each 2/6.
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