@Susan - re: Job 19:26, if you can get access to Clines, Job 1-20, he treats this fairly fully on pp. 461, 463-4. Modern handling still rooted in history of exegesis, it seems. Clines cites Speers' 58-page article on this, inter alia.
Would like to offer something in yr Q&A, but time is at premium just now. Trying to be disciplined ... failing miserably ... :/
@Davïd @Susan Drat - didn't catch bad link until edit grace period elapsed - trying again! So hope you can get to Clines, Job 1-20 ... with a better link!
As a source, the book of Revelation is something of an outlier for a book of the Bible that got accepted into the canonical New Testament of all the major branches of Christianity: it is the only explicitly eschatological work in this common New Testament, its date of composition is generally tak...
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@Soldarnal Both the Revelation questions seem to me to have other issues than the question of topicality that might have pushed them over that slightly fuzzy line - I've asked the core question anew and let's see if it gets closed :)
@Susan it would be possible to move Richards original answer over to my new question if you feel that would be appropriate.
@JackDouglas You know that Enoch question where I answered from one of my seminary papers? That assignment had two parts. 1) study a book that was excluded from Western Christianity; 2) study a book that was debated but accepted by Western Christianity.
I'll work on formatting it for here. The two parts should both be around.
@AJHenderson @Susan I did in fact even get the dreaded rubber-metallic BONK!, so that made it an official reflexive ping. ;) The process was just as AJ described it - I just wanted to keep the conversation linked.
@JackDouglas It would have the happy bi-product of restoring his 7 UV's at the same time. Must have been a nuisance to get them deleted. Jack's form the question is certainly more cogent than Bloch's (the newish one), but the deleted one might almost have passed muster.
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