@maklelan@DrCalumMiller you’re not understanding me. the reading is correct, but the *implications* you’re drawing from the passage certainly aren’t. your inability to nuance your words and fairly represent what scholars are saying does damage to your audience.
see below:
https://t.co/iHeSyRfBX1
@maklelan@DrCalumMiller it’s hardly an academic consensus when scholars are careful to make sure we don’t use a proof-text of exodus 21 to make a huge for or against abortion. but you seem to have a hard time representing the consensus fairly and always engage in hyperbole and inaccurate claims.
@cgp42@TheRhetorRick incorrect - if you actually read other literature at the time the NT writers were simply using conventional methods of second-temple quotation.
@lllogannnnn I think we need to get rid of this “correct/incorrect” dichotomy. All their quotations were acceptable by second-temple standards of exegesis. It may seem uncomfortable to us literalistic modernist is today, but their way of quotation we see within the OT *itself*!
@amateurexegete quoting actual scholars who know the language is *not* the same as if IP said “I don’t know hebrew but here’s how I would translate it” - the difference is quite obvious. Do you think most scholars have to learn Aramaic before they quote Maurice Casey?