The tradition that Jesus' ministry lasted 3.5 years stems from early Christian interpretations of the prophesy of the seventy "sevens" in Daniel 9. Remarkably, although that tradition remains standard, Daniel 9 is now often interpreted very differently... Read more »
“Honor your father and mother”: Mate selection as a test case
The last couple days, I have been looking at the history of interpretation of the fifth command (pet peeve: why do we retain the archaic “commandment” only in a biblical context? Biblical commands don’t have any special word in the source languages, so why should we retain an archaism in ours?): “Honor your father and [...] Read more »
