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fascinating as he discusses the functional ontology of the ancient world as opposed to our materialist ontology and how this impacts how we read the creation account(s)
and this is on my shelf at the recommendation of others but I haven't read it yet, so take it or leave it:
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@Susan That's a great selection from @Dan and those suggestions are excellent. Not a lot to add really (esp. since in the midst of a cauldron-whirlpool of work here). But I'll add a couple that would supplement/complement Dan's --
^^^^ available in another edition; in libraries? Very readable from a selection of excellent writers.
^^^^ Something of a landmark, and even if it sounds like a broken record at times, the orientations to debates over interpretation are worthwhile.
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@Davïd @Dan Looks like great stuff, thanks! I’ll see what I can manage to read. I always find myself wishing I had the perspective that comes from having read such things, but for some reason literature/history/sociology (and theology for that matter) is harder for me to digest than straight-up grammar and “lower” textual stuff. Too abstract or something.
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@Dan Thanks, I’m with you. (That’s my instinct anyway. Not sure I’ve ever heard anyone say it.) I may be wrong, but my sense is that the Latin
g
is preserved in some circles (presumably Europe/UK), though, which may or may not be accompanied by a shift in the accent. (Pretty sure this was mentioned in a book I recently read, but now I can’t find it, so I figured I’d survey the perspectives in the Library.)
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@Susan @Dan - I've heard plenty of "SEPT-ua-gint" ("g" as first G in "Ginsberg"). Also (German or not!): "Haben Sie eine Septuaginta?" :) And, auf Deutsch, always "hard" G.
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