The Library

4:10 PM

OK... There's a new meta question about this topic:

(waiting for community to post it)

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Q: Should we remove the blacklist on the Hermeneutics tag?

Currently, the hermeneutics tag is blacklisted. This was done as a matter of course based on the fact that this is "Biblical Hermeneutics" and this is "hermeneutics.stackexchange.com". It's a standard matter of course that an SE site will automatically blacklist a given tag that is presumed to ...

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OK... Got impatient.

There's the question that we really need everyone to vote on one way or the other. If we can build a community consensus on this, we might be able to persuade StackExchange to remove the intrinsic blacklist.

Also, don't forget to vote the "NO" answer down. :P

Jon Ericson

4:31 PM

@Richard I think we are in agreement in the comments to the question, but I can't tell for sure. ;-)

Stack Exchange

4:42 PM

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Q: Should we remove the blacklist on the Hermeneutics tag?

Currently, the hermeneutics tag is blacklisted. This was done as a matter of course based on the fact that this is "Biblical Hermeneutics" and this is "hermeneutics.stackexchange.com". It's a standard matter of course that an SE site will automatically blacklist a given tag that is presumed to ...

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Richard

4:57 PM

@JonEricson I think this happens a lot with me...

Jon Ericson

5:22 PM

@Richard And me.

Stack Exchange

6:55 PM

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Q: Let's remember Peace

Last week, I proposed a challenge to ask more tanakh questions. And I thought I'd make another challenge this week. Friday, November 11 at 11am marks the 93rd anniversary of the Armistice between the Allies and Germany. Even up to the last minute, the terrible fighting raged on in "the war to ...

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Ami

8:43 PM

@Richard, do you think the dating of the book of Genesis and the book of Job plays a role in the question of whether or not the same adversary is found in both?

Richard

9:10 PM

@Ami Oh, maybe. But I could see the question of authorship playing a larger role. Really, though, I think that comes down to the doctrinal lens through which a person views these events.

Jon Ericson

10:32 PM

@Ami Like Richard, I think doctrine plays a big part in the standard answer to the question. We have almost no evidence about the relative dates of the books, so usual guesses are based on doctrine, it seems.

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