Author Archives: jacobcerone

April Carnival

Posted on April 30, 2013 by jacobcerone

It’s time for another carnival. Though it is a meager one, I hope that you will get your fill of fun and revelry. Hermeneutics Matt Emerson has an excellent series on the various methods of biblical exegesis. Emerson provides a … Continue reading →

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Septuagint Jonah 1:1-3 and 3:1-3 Compared

Posted on April 29, 2013 by jacobcerone

Here is another snippet from my paper on the information structure of Septuagint Jonah. This part belongs in my discussion of the book’s macrostructure. Enjoy! [As a side note: I apologize in advance for the formatting of the Greek text. … Continue reading →

Directionality in Jonah

Posted on April 27, 2013 by jacobcerone

The book of Jonah plays with the concept of directionality. God’s command to arise, “ἀνάστηθι,” is paired with Jonah’s initial complicity in 1:3a, “ἀνέστη,” “and he arose.” This is contrasted with Jonah’s downward movement. He goes down, “κατέβη,” into Joppa … Continue reading →

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Jonah and Nineveh or Nineveh and Sodom

Posted on April 24, 2013 by jacobcerone

Here is a footnote [and by footnote, I mean a full page that will probably get cut out but saved for a more relevant paper] from my forthcoming paper [and by forthcoming, I just mean my term paper] on the … Continue reading →

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The Travesty of Translation

Posted on April 14, 2013 by jacobcerone

Okay, the title of this post might be overstating my case a bit, but I find myself growing ever so weary of Septuagint Jonah’s translator. Overall he does a rather fine job. But some of the literary artistry is destroyed … Continue reading →

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The Septuagint and Ezekiel 4:12-13

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jacobcerone

Tonight in my seminar on the Prophets we covered Ezekiel chapter 4. There there were many things I found of interest in this passage, I want to hone in on verses 12-13. Before we get there, let me give you … Continue reading →

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An Afternoon Date

Posted on March 10, 2013 by jacobcerone

This afternoon Mary Beth and I took a little time out of the day for ourselves. We went up to Chapel Hill to one our favorite places in the area: The Bookshop. A better selection of used books at a … Continue reading →

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Dogmatics as an Act of Prayer

Posted on March 5, 2013 by jacobcerone

I pray that you will indulge me as I quote Barth again. I think that this might be a become a bit of a habit. I told Mary Beth this evening that there are some authors that you just can’t … Continue reading →

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Dogmatics as an Act of Faith

Posted on March 4, 2013 by jacobcerone

Here is a sobering quote of the evening/morning. Barth writes, Our comment is that, so long as we understand by Christianity the creaturely and cultural reality of a view of life and the world alongside Platonism, Aristotelianism, etc., and so … Continue reading →

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Can Clausal Analysis Solve a Textual Issue in Ezekiel 3:5?

Posted on March 2, 2013 by jacobcerone

In the grand scheme of textual issues in the Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel 3:5 would be one of those passages that would go unnoticed. And for good reason. The passage reads (according to Masoretic punctuation) כִּי לֹא אֶל–עַם עִמְקֵי שָׂפָה וְכִבְדֵי לָשׁוֹן … Continue reading →