Same on 🦋 • Lecturer in NT & EC (@divinitysta) • Editor (@rbecs_org) • Cohost (@TheTwoCities) • PhD (Durham) • Hebrews is my thing. I don't know who wrote it.
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I’ve been asked a lot how I feel about the SBC decision. In short, I’m not surprised.
But our houses are not in order.
What worries me is: my lack of surprise isn’t because it’s the SBC. It’s because it’s *everywhere* that women are losing the ground that took decades to gain.
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I mean, come on, it’s a real conversation in the US whether women should be allowed to vote.
And “moderate” men platform a man who wrote an article entitled “How Women Ruined the Workplace” for the *New York Times* (Douthat). Fringe publication?
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So before you come after the SBC: Mind own your plank first.
Their decision is representative of something much bigger that we can’t ignore any longer.
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I tried really hard to get this allusion into the commentary. Alas, the tweet will have to do…
Striving/Diligence/Exercise produces endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't fall away; they just don't.
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Aspects of commentary writing are tough for me. (I often feel constrained by the genre.) But I am so grateful for the chance to think carefully about how every verse in Hebrews hangs together. I notice things that I've never noticed before.
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Becoming "unsluggish" as a result of hard work is perhaps as strange as hard work preventing sluggishness; however, the prior, I think, makes sense in light of the training imagery to come in Heb 12, in addition to accounting for 5:11 better.
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Striving/Diligence/Exercise produces endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't fall away; they just don't.
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I've checked the standard grammars. I'm keen to find a specialised study on the particle.
Greek Geeks: Anyone have a particularly good resource on τε and especially how it relates to καί in sequences?
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Greek Geeks: Anyone have a particularly good resource on τε and especially how it relates to καί in sequences?
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My “scholars not reading” story is: I gave a paper related to my unpublished thesis once. Someone present was interested, so I sent them the current draft.
A while later I received an email from a colleague that mentioned my work hard been engaged by a senior prof at the school.
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*had 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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And this, my darlings, is also why I don’t share (written) unpublished work with anyone other than close friends and colleagues…
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Since then almost every negative engagement with my work has come from this institution. Almost every time, the claims of the man who played a game of telephone to engage with my thesis are replicated… But they are *not* there.
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