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1:14 AM

@Susan Hmm, how did he drop from 101 to 1 then? He got a bunch of -2s to drop from ~115 to 101 last night, but then another 100 disappeared. His profile doesn't say "suspended" so I assume it wasn't a mod action... Very strange.

Susan

@ThaddeusB Can you see this? I probably shouldn’t say much beyond whatever is public there, which I think is the whole story anyway.

ThaddeusB

On another note, I find it ridiculous that the system let him post 81 answers plus another 10-20 deleted ones when only 7 of them have a positive score and the average is somewhere around -2. (The positive question record is no doubt the cause, but I think that is a bad reason to let someone keep answering)

@Susan It just shows -22 from yesterday; the other -100 is not public record I guess

Susan

@ThaddeusB Oh, that’s probably why mine is grayed out. I doubt it will take you too long to figure out what dinks you 100 points anyway.

ThaddeusB

@Susan Oh right, I remember that is a possibility now and I can guess it wasn't spam flags that did it. :)

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James Shewey

4:39 AM

When you first sign up, if you have over 100 reputation on another SE, you get 100 pts. It sounds to me like he might have lost is "association bonus" somehow.

ThaddeusB

5:14 AM

"You lose reputation when:

your question is voted down: −2
your answer is voted down: −2
you vote down an answer: −1
you place a bounty on a question: − full bounty amount
one of your posts receives 6 spam or offensive flags: −100" -- Help file

James Shewey

I'll bet it's that last one, and I'll bet it was on this question:

Q: Is the translation "rib" for the Hebrew צֵלָע (*tsela*) in Genesis 2:22 justified?

Why is it that Biblical translators choose to translate the Hebrew word צֵלָע (tsela) as "rib" when referring to the formation of Eve from Adam in Genesis 2:22? Never is this word translated as rib in any other scriptures except here. Some scholars believe that Adam was created both male and fem...

ThaddeusB

If someone flags it offensive and then a moderator deletes it for that, that might also count. (A meta question said that is definitely the case for spam flags, but didn't specify on offensive.) So, it could be a deleted one - certainly many of his posts were/are unnecessarily offensive. I commented in chat a couple weeks ago that his new strategy seemed to be to purposefully offend. (He has seemingly changed strategies several times.)

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curiousdannii

8:01 AM

Two down votes for this? With no explanation? This place is drag. Over and out. Bye. — WoundedEgo 13 hours ago

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Caleb

11:40 AM

@ThaddeusB Yes, the same is true for mod-validated offensive flags. And yes that's where WoundedEgo lost his extra 100 points the other day, and yes the flag was on a now deleted post (deletion is automatic in the case of spam or offensive flag validations whether a mod approves them or enough community members flag the same thing).

Moral of the story: being a counter culture rebel and disagreeing is alright. Being gratuitously offensive in the process isn't.

Susan

12:37 PM

@H3br3wHamm3r81 I feel like there’s something fishy though, because (as the Q points out) at least some of the Greek fathers took it as a reference to his wife. I don’t have a problem with them being wrong, but I have to give some deference to their familiarity with Greek. Maybe @fdb has some idea how this happened? — Susan ♦ 14 hours ago

This has me stumped.

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ThaddeusB

2:53 PM

@Susan Puzzling indeed. The paper I linked suggests it is possible that γνήσιε was used in feminine constructions by the time the Fathers wrote, but the idea is speculation.

ThaddeusB

3:34 PM

@Caleb Thanks for the explanation.

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ThaddeusB

8:25 PM

Another nice answer to an old question by @JamesShewey:

A: Was there precedent for John to link the satan and the serpent?

Mark Edward did a fantastic job of covering the Biblical link between the serpent and Satan, so I will not re-hash that, but I would like to directly address the second part of the OPs question: was John the first to link these two figures together? Or had the two already been connected in Je...

James Shewey

Thanks, but I really just recycled a part of:

A: What are the similarities and differences between the Genesis creation account and other creation stories of the time

There are several creation accounts in antiquity from two main areas in the fertile crescent; Babylon/Sumer and Egypt. I will attempt to summarize and compare/contrast points of each creation myth with Genesis, so I will apologize at the outset to readers for the long answer. I'm sure the OP did ...

ThaddeusB

@JamesShewey I know, but nothing wrong with that :)

James Shewey

I'll take the upvotes where I can get 'em :0

Plus that last one was so long, everyone was probably well cured of their insomnia by that point of the post.

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ThaddeusB

10:30 PM

Now that there is no risk of biasing the bounty (congrats @ScottS), I would be very much interested in feedback on how I can strengthen my answer:

A: Genesis 2:24 - How do a husband and wife become one flesh?

וְדָבַ֣ק ("cleave") Comparing several translations, there is a wide variety on how the verb וְדָבַ֣ק is translated. The NIV uses "is united", ESV "hold fast", NASB "be joined", NRSV "clings", while older translations (KJV, ASV, Douay-Rheims) use "shall cleave". Cleave is an archaic word that i...

For example, pointing out weaknesses in the argument or by suggesting papers I should read (I'm looking at you @Davïd :) ).

Susan

10:43 PM

Wow, great find. I'd love to see a strong answer to this one. — ThaddeusB 7 hours ago

@ThaddeusB I wasn't the first to notice it. :-) I ran across it here:

HUGH WILLIAMSON THE BOOK OF ISAIAH

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But he doesn’t explain. (All of the videos I've watched in that series are really interesting and helpful.) (I got there trying to figure out what he thinks about the Chapter 7 question which he doesn't address, but it's educational all the same.)

(Yes, @David, I'm aware that he's surely written things that provide at least one answer to both of these questions. I'm taking suggestions.)

Here’s one I want to see a real answer to:

Q: How much variation is in the Hebrew language of the Old Testament?

Is there a difference in the Hebrew between the earliest Old Testament books and the relatively newer books? In other words: are there linguistic differences (syntax, grammar, word usage) in older books like Job, when compared with more recent books like Isaiah? I am particularly interested in t...

canon hebrew old-testament

(From the comments: Most of Job has a different and more ancient kind of Hebrew than, for example, most of the Deuteronomic History (Sa, Ki).... OK.... different I get...)

James Shewey

11:38 PM

@ThaddeusB - I'm wondering the same thing myself. I thought yours was the best answer next to mine, of course ;). It seemed like @H3br3wHamm3r81 was looking for something more deep and meaningful than the obvious and easy answer (being marriage/intercourse). I felt like yours and mine were the only 2 that really attempted that.

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