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I will have to take some time to wend my way through Desire of the Everlasting Hills. In the last post I showed how Cahill mixes the use of “thou” into an overall modern and idiomatic translation. In every chapter he makes original and informed translation choices. Here is another. Cahill cites Job 19:25-26 as [...]

Since we don’t have one of those fancy widget thingies that Iyov has put on his blog, I’ll respond to a comment here with a new post. Dru asks on this post, If ‘kephale’, despite it’s use twice in Judges 11 in what appears to be the way it is used in English, is only [...]

It is often said that modern translations lose in expressing the meaning of the original languages if a generic “they” is used instead of a generic “he.” But, of course, we are all aware that the singular “thou” has been replaced by the plural “you.” I had not been aware of how significant this could [...]

For a long time I felt that the metaphorical meaning of kephale was not important when considering translation issues. However, I have rethought the issue. It needs to be recognized that the English word “head” has a meaning which includes both the physical head, and “a person to whom others are subordinate, as the director [...]

For those of you who do not find a discussion of kephale uplifting here is something else. I do feel that kepahle is vitally important and that we should seek common ground, a common understanding of the vocabulary of scripture. I continue to welcome complementarians and egalitarians to comment and I am quite happy to [...]