DCHindley

It IS imaginitive, isnt it?

That link I supplied was the only one I could find that used a printout of verses that labeled each one by the misspelled book name, and thus was likely generated from a computer database program. Funny thing is, the author of that web page (a fitness guru with a spiritual bent) hails from the very town I live in.

The other place I saw such a thing was on a web page of the Wasilla Christian Assembly in Wasilla, Alaska. The pastor, who seems like an otherwise intelligent man, does not seem too distressed by the misspelling although elsewhere his web pages spell the book name right.
http://www.wcfalaska.org/tapes_galations.htm

Here on BC&H it first appears in 2004 in posts by several folks. On the Internet it is a fairly common error, especially in labels for web pages that otherwise spell the name right. But it is just annoying that he continues to use it, knowing it is in error. My guess is that if it isn't because he doesn't care and is being an anarchist, then he is making some kind of obscure point about arguing on the same level as his opponents.

With so many free Internet based resources, it stands to reason that some will be better than others. By my estimates, probably 3/4 of all resources available on the Internet are crappy, and many of those are either trying to push an agenda or are deliberately misleading in order to scam people.

"Garbage in: garbage out." "You are what you eat."

All I'll say is that folks need to pay attention to what resources they use and respect what one finds at the better ones, whether it is what you expected to find or not. The better ones just happen to be the academically favored ones, because they are at least trying to eliminate or reduce the influence of theological and political agendas on the research end of things. The interpretion end, well, that's different.

DCH

Ben C Smith

Something certainly is wrong here. The problem is that the word slaves and the word deaconesses were four whole words apart (in English translation; only two words apart in the Latin text):

Quo magis necessarium credidi ex duabus ancillis, quae ministrae dicebantur, quid esset veri, et per tormenta quaerere. nihil aliud inveni quam superstitionem pravam et immodicam.

I judged it so much the more necessary to extract the real truth, with the assistance of torture, from two female slaves who were styled deaconesses, but I could discover nothing more than depraved and excessive superstition.

I can scarcely imagine any English translation moving slaves and deaconesses apart by more than a handful of words.

:huh:

Ben.

bacht

At the least, Mark seems to be consciously mining the Jewish scriptures for quotes and situations that echo revered figures like Elijah & Elisha. Christians have interpreted this as "prophecy fulfillment" but the simplest explanation is deliberate allusion by the author.

Toto

Split - Elijah's hijack

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