@MatthewMiller Ever heard of John Sailhamer? I don't agree with him on every point, but "The Pentateuch as Narrative" is an excellent source. I'd highly recommend it and I think you'd love it. He does an excellent job of drawing out connections like this.

On meta, what's the difference between the "scope" and "on-topic-definition" tags? Just curious, having seen both...

^^^ this one makes one claim that doesn't seem to hold up and another that might if it were expanded and supported. (See my comment there.)

^^^ That web app is pretty spiffy. (Haven't tried the Chrome plugin.)

@MonicaCellio Sound like synonyms to me.

@JonEricson to me, too. Want to merge/synonymize?

@MonicaCellio Sure. Which one sounds more canonical?

@JonEricson heh, so much for science -- I checked a few metas to see if there's a convention, and...nada. I did notice that MSO has "scope" but doesn't have the other -- but it does have "off-topic". So it probably doesn't matter so long as either one gets you there; my gut has a very slight preference for "scope" but I don't know why.

@JonEricson, nice comment here. I don't know what he meant by that either, but you handled it well.

@MonicaCellio I wasn't 100% honest, I'm afraid. I have a pretty good idea...

@MonicaCellio Ok. I don't think it would hurt just to chose one.

@JonEricson that's probably fine too. The other might get accidentally created by someone with vague memories, but we have so few meta users that it's probably not a big worry.

@JonEricson ah. Either you are privy to information that I don't have, or you're just more perceptive. Or both -- why choose? :-)

@MonicaCellio Synonyms now. Which do you prefer: tags or tagging?

I've never even heard of the synonymizer badge.

@JonEricson I'd say tags, especially since tagging only has one question so it seems to be rather a minority. :-)

@JonEricson I got that one from one of my proposed synonyms that some mod (I think Jack?) ended up manually synonymizing, after I learned that the "propose synonym" feature is basically a lose. :-)

Oh hey, I earned Civic Duty on meta and didn't notice.

I tend to think of tags as being nouns (rather than verbs) most of the time, though metas have plenty of both. I don't know if that's just me, though.

@MonicaCellio Great. That was my gut too. (@Ray's proposed synonym was the other way around.)

@JonEricson I didn't even think to go look for synonym proposals. I guess the conditioning worked too well. :-)

@MonicaCellio In order to approve them, I needed to find the list. There were only two, including my own. It's odd that moderator's synonym proposals don't take immediate effect like so many of the rest of our decisions...

@JonEricson yeah, to get instant gratification you have to use the link from the mod links page, not the page that's available to everybody else. Got tripped up by that on Mi Yodeya.

@JonEricson, as long as you're cleaning, I just noticed promotion and site-promotion (I'd probably go with the latter but shrug).

Also, what is interesting-tags for? (0 questions)

@MonicaCellio Who knows. Interesting-questions seems more useful.

^^^ I'm following our process (though they're starting to pile up), but this one's below average for its class so it might be worth an earlier look. It's not actively terrible (hence no VLQ flag or delete vote), but it's very forum-y. I left a comment.