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...

Cobwebs

I think I can finally wipe some sticky filaments of ideas from my face and roll them up into something like a little cotton candy ball: I have dual citizenship in the rarefied and pampered world of resort hotels, both as a guest and as a servant working along with...

Romans, Part 12

For circumcision has its value (ὠφελεῖ, a form of ὠφελέω) if you practice (πράσσῃς, a form of πράσσω) the law (νόμον, a form of νόμος), but if you break (παραβάτης) the law (νόμου, another form of νόμος), your circumcision has become uncircumcision.1  I began here in...