Metabiblical

This is a website where I park various things I write.

After buying the domain name metabiblical.net, I wrote a little bit about the terms meta and biblical.

(4 Posts) An Apology for the Coming Oversimplifications

• Part 1: The Bible.
• Part 2: The Books of the Bible.
• Part 3: The Biblical Authors.
• Part 4: The Biblical Text.

(2 Posts) A Critical Text is not a Time Machine

• Layers of Paratext on the Hebrew Bible
• Not Quite in the Original Greek

(9 Posts) On Henning Graf Reventlow’s History of Biblical Interpretation

• Henning Graf Reventlow is Helpful.
• Reventlow, Part 1: The Hermeneut’s Task
• Reventlow, Part 2: Redactors as Interpreters
• Reventlow, Part 3: The Septuagint
• Reventlow, Part 4: The Caves of Qumran
• Reventlow, Part 5: The Hermeneutics of Homer
• Reventlow, Part 6: Philo Judaeus
• Reventlow, Part 7: The New Testament Interpreting the Old
• Reventlow, Part 8: Primitive Christianity
• Reventlow, Part 9: Paul Sees God in the Mirror

(8 Posts) On Biblical Translation

(2 Posts) A Close Examination of the World English Bible

• WEB Review, Part 1
• WEB Review, Genesis 2

(6 Posts) Occasional Thoughts on Biblical Translation

• The NRSV is a Banned Book
• A Bible is No Place for Quotation Marks
• On capitalizing God
• On ‘translating’ the name YHWH
• Must the Bible reflect informal, spoken English?
• Gender Trouble in Genesis 1-3
• Adam Eats Dirt
• Gender Trouble with Trudeau and the Deuteronomist

(2 Posts) Notes on Various Books

• Van Leeuwen, Neil. Religion as Make-Believe.
• Hart, David Bentley. That All Shall Be Saved.