tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.comments2023-11-05T01:26:19.726-07:00Random ColinColin Toffelmirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-14407332406905412722019-01-02T01:35:11.438-08:002019-01-02T01:35:11.438-08:00vInterested to enter the world of Blockchain? Do y...vInterested to enter the world of Blockchain? Do you want to open your Blockchain account? If yes, take the stepwise assistance from the experts who have been working in this domain since ages and know now all the solutions and tricks to overcome from any error. Just dial <a href="http://www.cryptophonesupport.com/wallet/blockchain" rel="nofollow"> <b>Blockchain support number</b></a> at 1-800-665-6722 and get instant and ultimate solutions from the experts. 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J Hardy Carrollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03667972908462494918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-5960262358482664532010-12-24T16:39:29.931-08:002010-12-24T16:39:29.931-08:00I am not a linguist but am quite interested in lan...I am not a linguist but am quite interested in language. Anachronistic language in a period pieces distracts me. Given the number of hits I found on Deadwood swearing, I would say that it distracts a lot of people.<br /><br />I think using whatever words are best to convey the deep structure (meaning) of a phrase is most appropriate for something like a sermon where you might say "Jesus said ..." And today that would be like saying "Big Ass Microwave." <br /><br />So if Deadwood was being portrayed as a modern lawless zone - like Mad Max - modern swearing would be the way to go. I think audiences might be able to make the connection of how shocking the language was by the reactions of the parties. <br /><br />It would also be somewhat more interesting and I could probably enjoy the show without waiting for the kids to clear out.Mike Coonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264497793546775250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-87101859542973094072010-09-02T08:02:27.324-07:002010-09-02T08:02:27.324-07:00Wow, I'm not sure how you found this post here...Wow, I'm not sure how you found this post here Dave...in any case...<br /><br />The trouble with "instruction" in my mind is its standard semantic range in English. Though there is a certain meaning of "instruction" in English that captures very well the meaning of the Hebrew torah, I don't think that meaning is what most English speakers think of when they first hear the word "instruction." I think that most people do indeed think about "instruction manuals" which, as you say correctly, is not at all the right way to think about the Bible.<br /><br />But even given that we think about Torah as "instruction" in a sense that resembles "guidance" or suggests something about the framework of reality, that does not mitigate the point that there still exists a lot of witness/counter-witness in the canon. I would never deny that there is a unity to the canon, though I might push more towards functional unity than unity of content, but within that unity there is a lot of diversity and tension. That tension is very, very important to me.Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-89594202547263476362010-09-01T23:51:07.086-07:002010-09-01T23:51:07.086-07:00I can appreciate where you are going with this...t...I can appreciate where you are going with this...though I perhaps wouldn't put it as strongly as you do.<br />but just to play the devil's advocate (okay maybe not the best term in this context!)--what about torah as <em>instruction</em>, and then the conception of the rest of the Hebrew canon as instruction. I would perhaps even go so far as to say that all of Scripture Old and New Testament as torah/instruction. granted this is much different than an instruction manual per se but, in my understanding of it, would be broad enough to encompass all the various types of literature in the canon, in all their diversity.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09405948927250596390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-80394068487576410542010-06-23T06:17:31.312-07:002010-06-23T06:17:31.312-07:00初次造訪,安安^^............................................初次造訪,安安^^<a href="http://www.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://204.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://401.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://80.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://ut.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://951.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://1007.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://168.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://173.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://176.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://18jack.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://2011.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://24h.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://34c.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://3d.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://3y3.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://520.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://520sex.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://5278.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://666.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://66k.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://69.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://777.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://adult.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://aio.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://bb.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://chat.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://dudusex.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://dvd.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://face.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://g8.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://g8mm.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://girl.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://gogo.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://hot.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://japan.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://jolin.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://jpgirl.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://king.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://kiss168.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://kk123.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://ko.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://live.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://livesex.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://honey.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://love.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://loveu.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://mm.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://money.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://nice.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://orz.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://panda.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://play.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://playboy.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://playgirl.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://room.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://sex.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://sex520.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://sexdiy.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://sexy.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://shopping.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://show.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://showlive.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a><a href="http://sogo.hi616.me" rel="nofollow">.</a>劉淑芬https://www.blogger.com/profile/01555687915663976795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-66488241002686722492009-09-26T19:23:59.722-07:002009-09-26T19:23:59.722-07:00Wow, I do love the stringed instrument idea. The m...Wow, I do love the stringed instrument idea. The more versejacking I hear, the more I hear really bad music.<br /><br />To pimp a format that helps make the Bible musical again: www.thebooksofthebible.info. It takes out chapter and verse numbers among other improvements to help the Bible read, well, like a book. It's hard to get a verse a day from Harry Potter, and I don't think the Bible should be read primarily with verses.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01703082690282407473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-20631875152604355722009-09-25T09:53:58.503-07:002009-09-25T09:53:58.503-07:00Great post, Colin. I'm going to use your analo...Great post, Colin. I'm going to use your analogy of the stringed instrument.Karynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04020689918951522804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-2800891527781732622009-09-25T09:24:01.673-07:002009-09-25T09:24:01.673-07:00Very well put indeed Colin...Very well put indeed Colin...Scott Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17407216819056323566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-81460001500648548452009-09-25T07:45:10.583-07:002009-09-25T07:45:10.583-07:00Good post today Colin. Excellent reading, and yes...Good post today Colin. Excellent reading, and yes I'm still lurking around here some, via google reader. Hadn't seen the new theme.the Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234217364782820236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-37684900050421734182009-09-18T08:14:03.332-07:002009-09-18T08:14:03.332-07:00Dude, that's funny.Dude, that's funny.Jinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16787680143499841900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-18914109987451150962009-09-01T08:39:54.872-07:002009-09-01T08:39:54.872-07:00Thank you!Thank you!Scott Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17407216819056323566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-86146693889495494372009-08-20T19:05:45.182-07:002009-08-20T19:05:45.182-07:00"...pinching a Christian idea and dressing it..."...pinching a Christian idea and dressing it in a secular waistcoat. The problem, I would contend, is that disassociating the idea of grace from God robs the concept of both its legitimate philosophical underpinnings and also of its ultimate power and authority."<br /><br />Yes. This happens a lot. Even in church.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-10651370031471878542009-08-17T20:16:34.775-07:002009-08-17T20:16:34.775-07:00I totally agree that there are C students who work...I totally agree that there are C students who work very hard, and who are active participants in their education but just don't have the skills necessary to succeed at formal education. This was actually the one box on those two tables that looked to me like it was totally outside of the control of the student.<br /><br />Still, passivity is a real problem in education. Though as to the bit about unassessed strengths, that is often a case of passivity in a teacher. For real learning to take place everybody has to be an active participant.Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-84452953003958198092009-08-17T18:46:31.783-07:002009-08-17T18:46:31.783-07:00"from ignorant certainty to intelligent confu..."from ignorant certainty to intelligent confusion"<br /><br />ha!<br /><br />I think there are some C students who try, and have strengths in areas unassessed by the prof/teacher. but yeah, i'm one who believes a lot of people just don't know what they are capable of, or just need to admit they aren't really all that interested.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-20394815521648886032009-08-11T10:02:50.201-07:002009-08-11T10:02:50.201-07:00haha, that's funny.haha, that's funny.Jinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16787680143499841900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-69189720717350486612009-07-21T10:22:40.994-07:002009-07-21T10:22:40.994-07:00It isn't just that the word order of 1a and 1b...It isn't just that the word order of 1a and 1b are different. One is an active verbal construction and the other is a passive verbal construction. So in the active phrase the subject (McCall) receives a slight emphasis, as does the action itself. In the passive phrase the object (Hickok) moves to the foreground slightly and the subject and verbal action retreat a little. Also, passive phrases are (generally) less common, which makes them stand out slightly. Linguists also have whole lists of things that active and passive voice do at the level of paragraph and above.<br /><br />Your example from Matt goes to the same point, and one that is often the subject of debate. Which translation is better, the one that more closely resembles the actual surface structure of the text (formal equivalence) or the one that more closely resembles the deep structure of the text (dynamic equivalence). Which is really a better translation, "donkey's millstone" or "big-ass microwave"?Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-15544150945292823262009-07-21T10:08:33.354-07:002009-07-21T10:08:33.354-07:00I would certainly never say that academic training...I would certainly never say that academic training is decisive in good interpretation. There are a lot of trained scholars that I think suck at exegesis. Also I would probably note that I speaking more about questions surrounding the history and text of the Bible, and less about theology here. The two are related but not the same. I don't think I ever say that someone needs s PhD, and Barth, Lewis, and Bruce all fit my criteria tremendously well. They were all careful, thoughtful, and tremendously skilled interpreters and Christians everywhere should read everything those three men wrote.<br /><br />As for the new priesthood, this is kind of a problem and kind of not. Certainly I believe in the priesthood of all believers, in the sense that there is no special training needed for one to have access to God. But (as Scott Bailey, another blogger has noted) different people in the body of Christ have different gifts. Let's let those with the gifts necessary to understand the history, language, and text of Scripture do their job, and let's listen to them when they do it.Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-48564449668127546552009-07-21T05:59:45.496-07:002009-07-21T05:59:45.496-07:00I don't know about this, Colin. I get the sens...I don't know about this, Colin. I get the sense from reading your blog post that academic training is what is decisive for the proper use of the Bible in the Christian life. Does this not tend towards the classic Protestant temptation to make Bible scholars the new priesthood? Besides, there are plenty of excellent teachers of the Bible do not have PhDs (Karl Barth, CS Lewis, FF Bruce). At the risk of overstating my point, I've often wondered if academic training in biblical studies actually takes away one's ability to read Scripture in, with, and for the church. Indeed, your first point about checking out a teacher' s authority seems bang-on to me. But where does one get that authority? Is it the university? I tend to think not. If I'm going to be a good Barthian I should say that the only authority to interpret the witness to God's revelation comes from God himself, namely the Spirit of the Word. This, of course, puts us directly involved with the church catholic. Should we not test a reading of Scripture, first, in light of the wider Canon, second, in light of the church's creeds and confessions of faith, and third, in light of the church's tradition of reading Scripture through its history? The final criteria, of course, being God's revelation itself, the Word. This Word seems less interested in academic credentials than in faith and obedience.<br /><br />Perhaps I'm just cynical...D+https://www.blogger.com/profile/10259032714878217775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-55775985887444072412009-07-20T20:55:51.704-07:002009-07-20T20:55:51.704-07:00This is curious to me. Couldn't it be both? Yo...This is curious to me. Couldn't it be both? Your sentences a and b have identical deep structure meaning but not surface structure meaning? They mean the same thing, but the way we hear it may be drastically different, just because of word order?<br /><br />As for the show using new rather than old swearing, I guess if they want to transport us into that time yet convey the gritty language "easily" without much work on the viewers part then they made the right move. But couldn't they have accomplished it with good acting and writing? Use the old language but capture the original offensiveness and grittiness? I don't know. It would bother me watching it to have it so anachronistic. Deep structure meaning may be the same but on the surface it would still mean they didn't try hard enough.<br /><br />This reminds me of something I came across in sermon prep this week. When Jesus says "It would be better to have a large millstone hung round your neck" in Matthew 18 the literal translation is actually "have a millstone of a donkey". The idea is that there were hand-millstones and the big ones that donkey's carted around.<br /><br />Thing that got me thinking was, wow, it is way more effective, and even humorous, to keep the "donkey" language. But then again maybe they didn't laugh at donkeys then the way I do today. (But weren't donkeys funny from day 1. Or day 6 I guess?)<br /><br />So anyway, wouldn't it capture Jesus' deep meaning better if we kept the literal translation? Or maybe if we translated it with similar modern ridiculousness, like "It would be better to have a microwave bungeed around your neck"?<br /><br />Great post Colin. I've missed your blogging, making ties from everyday crap to stuff we read about in theory texts and what-not...Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-45471939727655243932009-07-20T20:46:07.479-07:002009-07-20T20:46:07.479-07:00I couldn't agree more with your review, Colin....I couldn't agree more with your review, Colin. They made some strange editorial decisions, for sure. The books will just always be the best, and thats that, I guess! :o)Colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297051459071208567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-73317890257925694262009-07-17T08:35:45.110-07:002009-07-17T08:35:45.110-07:00Yes, being so-called "self-taught" isn&#...Yes, being so-called "self-taught" isn't a bad thing, but it's not the same as being tested and challenged in a formal educational setting. That said, there are obviously flaws and problems with formal education as well.Colin Toffelmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13857934895856384717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-53486718907179419712009-07-17T06:38:17.607-07:002009-07-17T06:38:17.607-07:00yes. the other thing important about someone's...yes. the other thing important about someone's educational credentials is that a degree tells you they've had their thoughts tested and there has been a community there to evaluate and dissect them. that's still no guarantee of credibility but it is something more than the court of popular opinion and book sales.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898471.post-70420526364202339412009-07-16T10:23:04.346-07:002009-07-16T10:23:04.346-07:00Why does Hollywood have to screw all the good stuf...Why does Hollywood have to screw all the good stuff up? I'm looking forward to seeing The Time Traveller's Wife..but not in the theatre. I refuse to watch movies in public where I know I'm going to cry like a blubbering baby. :)Jinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16787680143499841900noreply@blogger.com