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23 questions linked to/from Site Viability and the Distinction Between Scriptural and Biblical Studies
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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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What kind of site do we ultimately want to have?
There have been a lot of discussions on meta about different aspects of site direction, but none directly focused on the fundamental question: What kind of site do we want to have? What should our ...
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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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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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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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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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The false dichotomy between "faith-based" hermeneutics and "let the text speak for itself" hermenuetics
This "gripe" is not unfamiliar to contributors to biblical hermeneutics beta, and frankly it is probably as old as the hills. Ages ago when I was taking undergraduate courses in theology, I ...
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Jewish Hermeneutics here too?
Judaism respectfully has very little to say on most of the questions here. Is there a StackExchange for them too, or is it more pragmatic to just share this one?
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Pseudo-neutrality & its enforcement
From the perspective of a postmodern/pluralist worldview, there is no such thing as 'pure' objectivity / true neutrality (nor objective truth, for that matter). In effect, all assertions of neutrality ...
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How do we define our terms for interpretive frameworks?
This comes from the question, Is there a scriptural warrant for the literal-historical approach? The question links to the Wikipedia page on Biblical literalism, which states:
Biblical literalists ...
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Is postmodern relativism the worldview of this site?
Dan O'Day says that the worldview of this site is postmodern relativism. Is it? Should it be?
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Why are we fragmenting between 'tanakh' and 'old testament'?
I see no difference between tanakh and old-testament, except that the referrer is Christian or Jewish. It seems to be just a wordplay, like calling God, Yeshua instead of God or Lord.
Do we really ...
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Questions about canonicity
Someone brought up a question that had been closed as being off topic (correctly, in my judgment) that had the canonicity tag. The canonicity tag wiki says:
The study of how a text came to be ...
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Should we positively discriminate in favour of all non-Protestant perspectives on BH?
It seems to be the case that many of our active contributors hail from Protestant traditions and perspectives. Several folk have expressed concern about this:
I currently believe there is a strong ...
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Studying the Bible vs. Bible Study
I've previously highlighted the distinction between Biblical Studies and Scriptural Studies, of which this is a postscript seeking community feedback on future direction. While there is a similar post ...
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