by Wendy Widder | Oct 13, 2011 | The Book of Daniel
I’ve spent a lot of time this week thinking about death and my dissertation. (Sometimes I’ve thought I would experience death by dissertation, but I am beginning to believe I might come out of the process alive after all.) Death has been on my mind because, if I lived...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 6, 2011 | How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
The Bible is full of stories – more properly called narratives—and most people don’t give a second thought to how they should be read. They’re stories, for crying out loud. Who doesn’t know how to read a story? Why are you wasting Web space – and my time – on this...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 3, 2011 | The Book of Daniel
Daniel is a one-of-a-kind book in the Bible. In case this is news to you, let me tell you what’s so unusual about it: (1) Your translators had to do double duty in Daniel because the original is written in two different languages (Hebrew in chapters 1, 8–12, and...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 29, 2011 | How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
There are all sorts of preliminaries you have to take care of before you can read a book of the Bible in fairness to its author and its Author. John Walton (of the Bible department at Wheaton College, not the lumber mill on Walton’s Mountain) likes to say that the...
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