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Archive
2021
August
Justice for All
2020
April
Striking Similarity
August
Church in Decline
2019
June
A Question of Vocation
July
Are You Ready for Change?
November
The Efficacy of Prayer
2017
January
The Johannine Gospel
So What is John?
The Consequent Difference of John
So what does that mean?
February
A Vulnerability
Vulnerability Defined
A Translation Issue
A Translation Mandate
Translation Limitations
Translation Consequences
Translation Breakdown
September
Elul 15
Elul 16
Elul 17
Elul 19
Elul 20
Elul 21
Elul 22
Elul 23
Elul 24
The Challenge of Change
2016
January
Why will 'All Israel' be saved? V
Fullness of the Gentiles I
Fullness of the Gentiles II
What do Gentiles need to learn?
On Reading Scripture
Collapsing Distance
Religious Collective Memory
A Sacred Obligation
The First Principle
The Second Principle
The Third Principle
The Fourth Principle
The Fifth Principle
The Sixth Principle
The Seventh Principle
The Eighth Principle
The Ninth Principle
The Tenth Principle
Jesus as the Universal Saviour
Knitter's Models I
Knitter's Models II
Knitter's Models III
Knitter's Models IV
Continuing Validity
Ten Elements of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Second Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
February
A Third Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Fourth Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Fifth Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Sixth Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Seventh Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Eighth Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
A Ninth Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
The Last Element of a Post-Supersessionist Christology
Wrapping up Phan's Post-Supersessionist Christology
Covenant and Conversion
Target for Conversion
Divine Word
Incarnational Approach
Human Approach
Liturgical Approach
Why Four Approaches?
Covenant I
Covenant II
Covenant III
Covenant IV
Jews and Christian Faith I
Jews and Christian Faith II
Baptising the World I
Baptising the World II
Baptising the World III
March
Evangelisation
Cunningham Conclusions
Targets for Conversion
Examples of Mission
Christian Teaching I
Christian Teaching II
Christian Teaching III
Christian Teaching IV
Christian Teaching V
Christian Teaching VI
Recent Reconsiderations
An Essential Question
The Role of Christ
The Role of the Bible I
The Role of the Bible II
The Find
What's it all about?
The Alternative
Matthew's Version
Christian Interpretation
Jewish Tradition I
Jewish Tradition II
Solomon Schecter
The Cost of Learning
Where to Learn
Picture Power
Rabbinic Motifs I
April
Rabbinic Motifs II
Rabbinic Motifs III
Action Packed Dramas I
Action Packed Dramas II
Action Packed Dramas III
Action Packed Dramas IV
Action Packed Dramas V
Action Packed Dramas VI
Action Packed Dramas VII
Action Packed Dramas VIII
Parable Summary
Poetics, Ideology and Translation
Post-Colonial Translation I
Post-Colonial Translation II
Colonial Agents
Domination
Analysis
Practice of Translation
Post-Colonial Translation III
Barth on Israel
Post-Colonial Translation IV
Post-Colonial Translation V
Rewriting Popularity
May
Rewriting Effects
Rewriting Ubiquity
Rewriting Popularity
What are poetics?
Rewriting affects Interpretation
Translation Delicacy
Translational Consequences
Translation Fidelity
Source Text Status
Language Differences
Mutual Exclusion
Rewritten or Forgotten?
Memory Stability
Master Narratives
Ricoeur and Configuration
Configuration in Action
Configuration in the Psalms
Ezekiel and Cultural Memory I
Ezekiel and Cultural Memory II
A Flexible Past?
Iconography
Myth or Memory?
Constraints and Limitations
Forwards, not Backwards
Framing the Question I
Framing the Question II
Framing the Question III
June
Oral-Preference Perspective
The Role of a Manuscript
Traditionsbruch
A Perfect Storm
Incomplete Picture
zerdehnte Situation
The Manuscript Bonus
Keith's Conclusions I
Keith's Conclusions II
Shavuot
Keith's Conclusions III
Keith's Conclusions IV
The Idea of History
Cultural Memory
Communicative Memory
Tradition and Communication
Counterfactual Memory
A Threefold Transition I
A Threefold Transition II
Cultural Memory Procedures I
Cultural Memory Procedures II
Cultural Memory Procedures III
Cultural Memory Procedures IV
Cultural Memory Procedures V
Cultural Memory Procedures VI
Cultural Memory Procedures VII
July
Memory Transformation
Deuteronomic Lessons I
Deuteronomic Lessons II
Deuteronomic Lessons III
Cultural Peregrinations
Where to Draw the Line
The Communicative Horizon
But Cultural Memory is Different
Stored Memory
Cultural Memory Again
Memory Politics?
Libraries?
Memory and Identity
Culture from Outside
What is tradition?
Tradition fluctuates
The Boundaries of Tradition
Canonisation
Normal Fate
Stimuli of Canonisation
Excarnation and Invention I
Excarnation and Invention II
The Excarnation of Tradition
A Canon from Above
Communities and Libraries I
Communities and Libraries II
August
Idolatry and Linguistic Narrowing I
Idolatry and Linguistic Narrowing II
Idolatry and Linguistic Narrowing III
A Sixth Step?
Out of the Question
Restoration
No I was not
Challenging Identity
Struggle for Identity
Jewish and not Jewish
The Cost of Multiculturalism
Multiculturaliam and Jews
But did it work?
The Struggle of Culture
No Condemnation
Meaningful Activities
Jewish Survival
A Hypocrite?
Why we Need the Past
What does 'Cultural' mean?
Cultural Authority
The Order of Retrieval
Cultural and Sacred Texts
The Sacred Text
The Cultural Text
The Disclosure of Binding
Footnote Three
September
More Footnote Three
Yet More Footnote Three
Tournier and Secrets I
Tournier and Secrets II
Public Experience
Why Tell Stories
The Memory-Tradition Nexus
What is Translation
Kade's Types of Equivalence I
Kade's Types of Equivalence II
Kade's Types of Equivalence III
Kade's Types of Equivalence IV
Polysysyems and Hosting
Toury's Marks of a Translation I
Toury's Marks of a Translation II
Toury's Marks of a Translation III
Pym and Heidegger
Pym and Ricoeur
Cultural Translation I
Cultural Translation II
Cultural Translation III
Cultural Translation IV
Cultural Translation V
Where is translation?
Roman Jakobson on translation
Jakobson vs. Eco
October
Translation Sociology I
Translation Sociology II
Translation Sociology III
Translation Sociology IV
Translation Sociology V
Pym engages with Berman
A Polemical Narrative
The Challenge and The Risk
Different Meanings
The Effect of Covenant
Whose Effort?
Translating for Obedience
Remembering for Obedience
Whence cometh New Truth?
What is New Truth?
The Difficulty with New Truth?
How do we receive New Truth?
An Assumption about G-d
Summing Up New Truth
Teaching New Truth
Israel's Election I
Israel's Election II
November
So why Exile?
Election and Identity
Consequences of Election
Head Down for Writing
2015
January
Binary Opposites
Blindness and Assimilation
Food Categories
The Torah Cycle
Halakha
The Scope of the Torah
What is identity?
Ethnic Groups
As Reported by Others
The Myth of Common Ancestry
Social Categories
Named by Place
Moving to Ezra
Nehemiah too
Josephus' Evidence
Summary so far
Abraham on the line
The Alternative Theory
Exclusion
Who were they?
And what about the people?
And Nehemiah himself?
Ezra and Ezekiel
Nagging Questions
Did it start with Ezekiel?
And who are the 'foreigners'?
February
Signs of Identity
Nehemiah's Contribution
And did it work?
The Secular Ruler
History and Ideology
Difficult Records
The Maccabean Connection
Ezra and the Talmud
How lasting were the achievements?
Grounded Theory Method
Promotion of Sameness
Exclusion and Embrace
Exclusion and Embrace (2)
Exclusion and Embrace (3)
The Scandal and the Promise
A Sense of Space
The most basic thought
How does Unity work?
Why do we need 'home'?
Travel as a Threat
Key Characteristics of GTM
Emergence
Constant Comparison
March
The Body of Christ
What are the implications?
New Tribalism
The Dubious Triumph of Inclusion
Volf on Foucault
The Need for Boundaries
The Self and its Centre
Place and Commitment
Place and Landscapes
Place and Memory
Violence and the Self
Threats to the Self
Consequences of Identity
The Assault of Cain
Grace for Cain
Embrace
Politics of a Pure Heart
Space for the Other
Non-remembering
The Drama of Embrace
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
April
Notable Features
Feature One
Feature Two
Feature Three
Feature Four
Once a Jew, Always a Jew
Once a Jew, Always a Jew, Really
Coding Standards
No light matter
Necessary Personal Attributes
Attribute One: Organised
Attribute Two: Perseverance
Attribute Three: Deal with Ambiguity
Attribute Four: Flexibility
Attribute Five: Creative
Attribute Six: Rigorously Ethical
Attribute Seven: Extensive Vocabulary
Social Influence?
Social Change Theory
Magnitude Coding
Coding and 'a priori' goals
Departing from the Particular
Eucharistic Space
The Importance of Discovery
May
The Joy of Discovery
Introduction to Translation
Understanding as Translation
The Starting Point
Repeated Translation
Childish Language
Language and Life
Academic Distance
Personal Positionality
Insider Privilege
The Trauma Membrane
Standard Approaches Inadequate
Who Is Driving?
Why Gateway?
Pressure for Results (1)
Pressure for Results (2)
More than details?
Why do research?
Facing the Challenges
Measuring up to Standards
Objectivity, Lack of Bias
Subjectivity Gain
A Chain of Evidence
What about ethics?
June
Foundations for a Gateway
What is Interpretation
Oral History
Fundamental Agreement
Member Check
The Gateway Process
Subjectivity and Multiple Perspectives
Translate Every Day
Translation Failure
Language forms Culture
A Polyglot Mentality
Language and Time
Time as a Translation Issue
Meaning by Exchange
Baptism as Kinship
God's Larger Plan
Baptism as Kinship
Apostle to the Gentiles
Two Translations
One has to be Wrong
What's in a name?
Social Identity and Time
Social Memory Theory
July
Self Categorisation
Contesting Identiy within Groups
Time Revisited
Identity Work Processes
Identity Construction Processes
Identity Amplification
Identity Consolidation
Identity Extension
Identity Consolidation
Identity Work in a Movement
A Worthy Supporter
Brueggemann on Levenson
Canon and Community
Dating and Transmission
A Mutual Shaping
History vs. Canon
A Broad Theocentric Hermeneutic
Errore Hominum Providentia Divina
A Divine Bias
Adaptation and Resignification
Monotheism
The Trinitarian Formula
And Sanders' Solution?
Questioning Allegory
Resignification
At least two readings
Nothing more?
August
So what is Scripture?
How does the Bible do it?
More Dynamic Analogy
Four Canonical Perspectives
The Second Canonical Perspective
The Last Two Canonical Perspectives
Social Identity Theory
More Social Identity Theory
Learning in Action
Pregiven Elements
Strategies for Non-translation
Mother Tongue
Situational Meaning
No Definite Meaning
Basic Identity Theory I
A Kind of Trust
Basic Identity Theory II
Trust and Bilinguals
Basic Identity Theory III
Trust with Reservations
Basic Identity Theory IV
Banana Trees
Basic Identity Theory V
Representing New Things
Basic Identity Theory VI
Adaptive Translation
September
This is Incommensurable
Selective Translation
Grooming and Language
Identity and Location
Identity and The Production of Knowledge
Motivation and Intention
Moveable Standards?
Crossing the Authorities
Delegitimation Techniques
No Clean Slates
Given or Constructed?
Privileged or Not?
Theologian Scholars
A Clear Caveat
Who Counts as Which?
Helpful Conclusions
Startling Introduction
Self-constituted?
The Perennial Question
The Perennial Question
Personalist Understandings
Claims of Betrayal
Not the Land
October
Historical Continuity
On Not Being in Charge
The Phenomenon of the Synagogue
The Phenomenon of Torah
The Phenomenon of the Rabbinate
Phenomena Summary
Phenomena Takeover
Form Criticism
Midrash
The Purpose of Canon
The Importance of Recital
Symptoms of Loss
Recital and Memory
The Reading Cycle
A Polish Example
Reforged Identity
Editing and Refreshing
Forces for Identity
Prophecy and Prophets
Normal Folk
The Hermeneutic Circle
Valid Preconceptions
At a Crossroads
Complete Salvation
Enforcing the Torah?
November
A Change of Metaphor
Sitting at the Table
A Brief Moment
Ephesus Revisited
Two Dangers
Greek Discourse
Crossing Frontiers
Back to Ephesus
A Redefined Moment?
In the Ark
Epilogue I
Epilogue II
Following Jesus
The Cost Involved
Who was a Jew?
Looks
Clothing
Speech
Names
Occupations
Romans Passing as Jews?
What about circumcision?
An Official Register?
What Made Jews Distinctive?
Jewish by Association
Jewish by Observance
December
Conclusions
Conversation Trajectory
Contextual Reading
Grasping the Meaning
Where did it come from?
Who makes the call?
Reconciliation on One Leg
Who was it to?
Jewish lifestyle not an obstacle
Equality in Mission
Readings of Impartiality
Rating All Things as Loss
Judging Paul
A Gentile View of Paul
A Question of Contradictions
Two Divergent Answers
What we Expect
An Inclusive Salvation
Role of the Remnant
Not Enough
Surprising Factor
For the Jew of course
Why will 'All Israel' be saved? I
Why will 'All Israel' be saved? II
Why will 'All Israel' be saved? III
Why will 'All Israel' be saved? IV
2014
September
The Reader and the Reading Experience
Explicit Commentary by the Narrator
The aims of Gospel mobility
Class behaviour
October
Exorcising Plato's Ghost
Rethinking Ritual as Practice
Constructing Ritual
Just Do It and Don't Ask Questions
Being Connected to the Jewish People
For Whom were the Gospels Written?
For Whom were the Gospels Written?
For Whom were the Gospels Written?
Contesting Conversion
Limits of Scholarship
How many Rhetorics?
Showing and Telling
Jews, Gentiles and Circumcision in Early Christianity
Stories People Want
A Distressed King
Social and Cultural Memory
Romans and Christian Identity
The Inspiration of Scripture
November
Matthew's Gospel
Matthew's Gospel
When the Going gets Hot
Primary Focus
Erasure of Difference
The New North London Synagogue
Promotion of Sameness
December
Anti-Jewish Church Council Decrees
New Testament Unity
Sunday, 12 June 2016
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