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48 questions linked to/from What are we looking for in answers?
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What texts are open for examination?
I assume the baseline here is interpretation of and principles behind understanding the 66 book Protestant canon.
What about the extra 7 Deuterocanonical books used by Catholics?
What about the extra ...
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Why should one participate in the Biblical Hermeneutics site (is it a viable site)?
I just found your site yesterday [years ago now, note the date of initial posting], and have been looking around at various meta discussions on distinctions between it and C.SE, or how much doctrine ...
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What is the Anatomy of a Good BH.SE Answer?
This question has a different focus than What are we looking for in answers?, but is related.
There is an explicit one for questions (What makes a good/bad question?), which itself links to the more ...
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What does "show your work" mean in the context of exegesis?
As a result of recent debate over whether certain answers would be considered acceptable on this site, we posed the question "What are we looking for in answers?". In my foray into the issue, I noted ...
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What barriers might be hindering more quality participation from Jewish members?
While this site is, in principle, solidly non-partisan in its religious affiliations, over time with a larger base of participation things have clearly gotten skewed a bit to the Christian side of ...
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Friends, we are not Christian!
I am a Christian. You might be Christian too. But we are neither Christian nor even religious.
If you are the sort of person who reads Meta, this is insultingly obvious. It says right in the FAQ:
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Some 2013 BH.SE Memes to Brighten Your Day
What's your favorite meme of 2013? Feel free to add more!
I was asked to make each meme a separate post that can be voted on, and to make this community wiki.
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What should our title be?
Our current title, "Biblical Hermeneutics", has a lot going for it:
Covers many of the questions we ask if you take hermeneutics to mean "applied hermeneutics".
Quietly excludes people who don't have ...
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How can this site distinguish itself from Christianity.SE?
Might as well address the elephant in the room right off the bat.
Many questions on Christianity deal with exegesis. During the proposal process, there was a lot of consensus to merge the Biblical ...
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Hermeneutics vs Exegesis
Is "Biblical Hermeneutics" the best name for this site? So far, it seems few of the questions asked (similar with earlier phases) have much to do with hermeneutics directly, and are more exegetical. ...
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Having extended hermeneutics to exegesis, where do we draw the line?
Background question: Hermeneutics vs Exegesis
Are we a site for practicing exegesis where the experts happen be the ones with good knowledge of hermeneutics or is this a place where one could ask ...
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Should we require answers to cite sources?
Over on the Skeptic site, they have a rule that all answers include references to sources. It's a hugely different site than ours, so such a rule isn't necessarily appropriate here. But there are ...
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All traditions are welcome on Biblical Hermeneutics
Dan recently wrote:
We should avoid the fallacy that we can somehow require diversity. We certainly welcome diverse perspectives, but what if some questions only have Christian perspectives? We can'...
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Please can we have a custom close reason "...doesn't start from the text..."?
I don't know the stats but I think all our current close reasons are used regularly, so we don't want to change them.
However there has also been significant support for having a close reason that ...
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A roadmap to Biblical Studies
Recently, Soldarnal suggested a name for our site that I quite like: Biblical Studies. It seems that Stack Exchange would be willing to entertain a name change, if we think it's a pressing issue. ...