Hannah’s Prayer, Part 2

Hannah’s prayer continued: Masoretic Text Septuagint 1 Samuel 2:3 (Tanakh) 1 Samuel 2:3 (NET) 1 Reigns 2:3 (NETS) 1 Kings 2:3 (Elpenor English) Multiply not exceeding proud talk; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; for HaShem is a G-d of knowledge, and by Him...

Who Am I? Part 10

(I toyed with the idea of calling this What Am I Doing? Part 1, but I already have more threads than I can keep current.) I don’t get a lot of eschatology in my own study, so I rely on the studies of others.  I thought the prophecies of Isaiah 17 were fulfilled long...

Hannah’s Prayer, Part 1

I want to consider Hannah’s prayer in four English translations, two from the Hebrew of the Masoretic text[1] and two from the Greek of the Septuagint: Masoretic Text Septuagint 1 Samuel 2:1, 2 (Tanakh) 1 Samuel 2:1, 2 (NET) 1 Reigns 2:1, 2 (NETS) 1 Kings 1:28b-2:2...

Who Am I? Part 9

“One more thing you should know about me,” I wrote in another essay: “I usually appreciate God’s deceptiveness (the NIV translates it shrewdness, if you prefer) first, before I recognize his reliability, trustworthiness and loyalty.  So I assume that I am far more...

A Monotonous Cycle Revisited, Part 2

Moses wrote (Genesis 3:22-24 Tanakh): And HaShem (yehôvâh, יהוה) G-d (ʼĕlôhı̂ym, אלהים) said: ‘Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for...