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John Collins on the Day of the Lord
Today’s reading is from Joel 1 and 2. The theme of “the day of the Lord” plays prominently in the passage as well as in many other prophetic texts. I remembered reading quite a long time ago a helpful passage in Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. It explains why all of the talk of…
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A Feature I Like in English Textual Notes
I was reading in Jeremiah 1 today, and I noticed a feature that I like in my Hebrew-English Tanakh. Word plays are often marked in notes. For instance, there is a word play between shaqed “almond tree” and shoqed “watchful” (their translation) in Jeremiah 1.11 & 12 that is marked. So, I looked ahead into…