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Should we permit "G-d" or "G d" in question titles or edit to "God"?
I think that alternate spellings of "God" shouldn't be changed. It should be up to the author to decide how he or she wants to spell words, whether in religious words or in ordinary words that have ...
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Is it considered bad manners to answer a question that has already been accepted?
There is a lot of interest in the meaning of "accepted answers" on Meta.Stackexchange. Generally, the wisdom seems to be that multiplying good answers to questions (even if they have an accepted ...
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I'm sorry, but I must resign as moderator
It is a very sad thing for the community here that you are no longer moderator. This site is particularly difficult to moderate, and you have made a major positive impact since agreeing to help back ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
I'd like to thank everyone who voted! And I'd like to thank Susan and Soldarnal for their service as Moderators pro tempore. We've been so fortunate to have a long list of volunteer moderators (in no ...
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What should we do with questions about tools used in Biblical scholarship?
In my understanding, Meta is for discussion of Hermeneutics.SE site policy. None of these questions is about the site. They are indeed “meta-” in a way, but they are meta-hermeneutics rather than meta-...
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Is it possible to ask questions about the grammar, vocabulary, or translation of Biblical texts?
To use a metaphor, I would distinguish between questions about grammar, vocabulary, translation in the air— that is, questions which do not relate to a biblical passage– and questions ...
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What place does Numerology have on this site?
Numerology itself is neither sacred nor taboo here. It all comes down the fundamental requirement of the site: that you show your work.
It seems likely that the ancient writers were familiar with ...
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Are questions about hermeneutical approaches still on topic?
As far as I'm concerned, yes these always have been and still should be on topic. I've been kind of frustrated when I've run across similar things where some of our community can't seem to separate ...
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What is the point of answering questions here if some self appointed expert just deletes whatever they do not understand?
You have one post that was deleted by a moderator. It was not deleted because it wasn't understood, it was deleted because it didn't meet the basic requirements imposed on all answers on this site. ...
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Verse level search capability?
I started an open source project on Github as a place to house a community driven implementation of this. Anyone with ideas is invited to submit them as issues or discuss existing ones. Anyone with ...
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What is the Anatomy of a Good BH.SE Answer?
Keep on Topic
The BH.SE site does not exist to prescribe how readers should live their lives in light of the text (though if the text contains a prescription of how to live, that may be noted as part ...
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Verse level search capability?
I doubt SE will ever implement something like this as in has so little impact on their bottom line, but this actually wouldn't be hard to implement ourselves.
Man handle a copy of the data dump onto ...
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Which standard for transliterating/transcribing Hebrew should we use, if any?
I'm not sure uniformity is a practical or important goal. We have plenty of problems with the quality of questions and answers around here, and there are plenty of areas where we need to push both new ...
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Why did my answer receive three downvotes in less than half an hour after it was posted?
I can only speculate
I have not as of writing this voted on the question or the answer you gave. However, I do believe I can answer some points as to "why" you are getting down voted.
First, the ...
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Should Hermeneutics Stack Exchange have a Section for the Protestant Faith Only?
Absolutely, and unequivocally NO!
'Catholic' questions, Protestant questions, Jewish questions, Mormon questions(concerning the bible) are MORE THAN WELCOME, providing that they are asking about the ...
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Is there a Trinitarian bias in voting?
You might be hurting your case by calling downvoters losers and leaving comments like:
So who's the coward that down voted this? Yeesh.
and:
Down votes? No explanation? QUIT TROLLING ME, ...
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Adding a reason for deleting answers
OP: Far too often, I see answers that are one-liners, wholly unsupported throwaways and downright terrible answers to questions of an OP.
Since this is tagged discsussion, I'll add in another related ...
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Caleb, Caleb, Caleb! Why have you deleted an answer that the community has found useful?
No, we don't delete stuff just because we don't personally find it useful. There are, however, a lot of scenarios where content is not useful to the community and we do clean it up. In this case it ...
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Is it considered bad manners to answer a question that has already been accepted?
No, not at all — as long as you have a reason to do so. The accepted answer mark is really just the original poster saying they think they are satisfied, but there is usually room for improvement. ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations, Jesse! I believe you will do well in this role in that I perceive that you have a humble and peacemaking spirit! The Lord knows how to place us where we can be most effective and use ...
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Is this an example of a good question?
Yes, this is a very good question.
It's about an interesting turn of phrase that doesn't necessarily have an obvious translation and may or may not have implications depending on how it's interpreted....
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What level of downvotes would constitue serial downvoting?
According to the help center:
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period of time, the system considers these votes to be invalid and removes them. ...
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Is it ok to ask since when a particular teaching/doctrine was known?
Questions about the history of a doctrine in Christianity such as when a particular viewpoint came on the scene or came to prominence are probably better suited to Christianity.SE. Even though the ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
It's been a privilege serving this community, but my current life circumstances no longer allow me to spend as much time and energy moderating this site as I'd like. As such, I'm stepping down as a ...
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What is the Anatomy of a Good BH.SE Answer?
Show your work.
If you are personally analyzing the Scripture, show your logic, make explicit your connections.
Avoid making an mere assertion, especially one highly relevant to your argument, wihtout ...
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Is the scope of BH.SE too narrow to make the site fully viable?
The Stats Reflect the Topic and Approach
The requirements for moving out of Beta are, to some extent, arbitrarily set based on some SE model that said 'X' is good for each category to advance out of ...
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What about questions about historical linguistics when focused on meaning in biblical languages?
It's a reasonable question, but my own sense is that "historical linguistics" ("HL" in what follows) questions are not a good fit for BH.SE.
The examples provided would only very tangentially -- if ...
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I'm being trolled by moderator
I don't know if you've ever hear of Occam's Razor, but I'd like to propose that you've made quite a number of assumptions about my motivations that are not justified by the paper trail. Some of the ...
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Are history of interpretation questions on-topic?
My own sense is, Yes -- "history of intperpretation" questions are "on-topic" for Hermeneutics.SE. I have some caveats (noted later), but here's my rationale.
The BH.SE community is already ...
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Is using one's own initials as an identifier for a translation allowed?
Allowed?
I'm not sure that's the right question. There are a very limited number of things we actually flat out don't allow. Maybe "encourage" might be a better question.
Encouraged?
No.
We have, ...
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