This morning the following tweet appeared on my Twitter feed (as retweeted by Michael Brown): First, let me begin by noting that while ISIS apparently posted the pictures, I take it the focus of Cantor’s comments is not so much ISIS as the Palestinians since (1) the Palestinians are on the frontline of this abhorrent incitement […]
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The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: A Review
Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Yoram Hazony’s book begins with a question: “Is there something crucial missing in our understanding of what the Hebrew Bible is all about?” (ix) His answer, as you might have expected, is yes. But the nature of the answer is something you might not have anticipated. […]
What Gericke failed to do: A footnote to my review of Jaco Gericke
Terms have both a reference and a sense. The reference of a term is the thing it refers to while the sense of a term is the means by which it refers to that thing (i.e. it’s content). If Jaco Gericke is going to succeed in his argument he will need to demonstrate first that the sense […]
