The latest Biblical Studies Carnival has been posted. It is an impressively comprehensive as well as diverse and entertaining “Bible Theme Park” hosted by none other than Ned Flanders. This month there seem to have been an unusually large number of common threads running through the biblioblogosphere, due among other things to memes and reviewing [...]

I was surprised to find that someone found their way to my blog by searching for “butler, baker and the candlestick maker in the bible“. It led them here. Do you think they found what they were looking for?

Proposition three is that the Hebrew verb bara’ has a functional focus. Walton starts off by emphasizing that reading the Bible in English is really of no help whatsoever. The issue is not what the English word “create” means, but what the Hebrew word that is usually translated that was in Genesis 1 means. No [...]