Jeremy Thompson

Category: Old Testament Study

  • John Hobbins' Plea for a Broad Definition of Ancient Hebrew

    For those interested in learning about “Biblical” Hebrew, though not necessarily in learning the language, check out John Hobbins’ recent post concerning Ancient Hebrew.  Since the post is called a plea it goes without saying that not everyone would agree with all of the information found therein.  However, it is a helpful overview for the…

  • Additions to Daniel in Today's Liturgy

    Today’s responsive reading involves part of the additions to Daniel considered canonical by Roman Catholics and some of the other more liturgically oriented traditions.  That is very fine and well (at least in my opinion, but I’m Catholic).  Yet here’s the footnote from the New American Bible: [24] 3,24-90: These verses are inspired additions to…

  • John Collins on Daniel 7

    Well, I had a wonderful time with Christo (my thesis supervisor) and Karyn (a peer at the University of Stellenbosch) after SBL.  But, now back to the important business of blogging.  Today’s Old Testament lectionary reading is from Daniel 7.  Once I get past the narratives at the beginning of Daniel, I very much feel…

  • Bagster's Daily Light – Thy Thoughts are Very Deep (BibleWorks 8)

    I opened up BibleWorks 8 this morning to be greeted with the Bagster’s Daily Light for the day.  This is a resource I am very interested in because it hits me with just a bit of Hebrew and Greek every morning and evening, which is something that is good for the soul.  I’ll give a…

  • You Break the Teeth of the Wicked

    That is a phrase that is left out of the Responsorial Psalm for today.  Psalm 3 consists of 8 verses in the Hebrew text.  The response for today uses every verse in the text except for one.  Why leave out one verse?  Because it reads: Rise up, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For…

  • Hatin' on Horses

    Just started teaching a study on Psalms today in my parish.  One of the texts we looked at was Psalm 33 and I was reminded from verse 17 that there is a lot of hatin’ on horses in the Old Testament.  Here’s a sampling: Useless is the horse for safety; its great strength, no sure…

  • Grice's Maxims Applied to Biblical Interpretation

    I posted shortly ago about Grice’s “Maxims of Conversation,” but I wanted to take a brief moment to say that these maxims are not only useful ideas for conversation, but also can be applied to Biblical interpretation.  Take for example the “Maxim of Manner,” which has as a sub-point “be brief (avoid unnecessary wordiness).”  One…

  • Videos on the Portrayal of God in the Hebrew Bible

    Don’t know how I allowed myself to get scooped on this because I was very interested in this conference when I first heard about it and wished I could have attended.  At any rate, here is a link to a conference held at Notre Dame University entitled “My Ways are Not Your Ways.”  The conference…

  • Spotlight on Tim Bulkeley and 5minutebible.com

    I was going to write a post today simply about the site 5minutebible.com, but then I started looking at all of the Biblical Studies work that Tim Bulkeley has been doing online.  Most of the work I was aware of, but I had never seen all of the links in one place to really appreciate…

  • Collins on Systematizing the Material in the Pentateuch

    Have been re-reading through John Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible off and on lately.  Here is a passage I read last night I thought worthy of citation: The Biblical text that resulted from this process (the final editing together of diverse material) is not a consistent systematic treatise.  Rather, it is a collection of…