Forgot to push the button on this last night. I recently had a good exchange with a Naked Bible reader via email and wanted to share my thoughts on the notion of how “corporate solidarity” (CS) fails to answer my objections to the traditional view of...
biblical anthropology
Discerning the Dead, Part 1
I’m going to start going through the passages from the last post that I pulled out for examination from the list of occurrences in the OT for “the dead” (metim). Recall my working hypothesis: The term “the dead” refers to those things...
Whittling Away at the Dead
As some of you, no doubt, I’ve had time to go through the PDF file of the occurrences of (Hebrew) met and metim (“the dead”). You no doubt noticed that the overwhelming majority of these instances are pretty straightforward and refer to dead human...