#Augusine in bkXV city of God fights the text of the Scripture to maintain completely unScriptual ideas like God is unchanging and emotionless. That's not what the Book says, bro. #criticalbible. Y? #booksky

To expound a bit: I had come to understand staunch defense of factual inerrancy was a response to Enlightenment/Scientific Method. Reading, e.g., a church father defend Methuselah's age (but worry it doesn't extend past the Flood) rebuts that. #criticalbible #booksky

#Augustine Book XV, CityoGod, seeks to show things in Gen.1-11 are "rerum veritatem," real facts and also reveal truths about Christ. #criticalbible #booksky Factual inerrancy arg. predates #enlightenment ? Guess so.

Fifth Ennead complete. Wondering about Plotinus's One | Brahman | Tao | Christian Panenthism. All encorage Apophatic thinking. Is that were similarity ends? #booksky #criticalbible #plotinus #greatbooks

Although perhaps Briseis and Chryseis are actually treated even worse than Bilhah and Zilpah. #booksky #criticalbible #homer

@wilgafney.bsky.social I believe I first read "womb slave" in your work. Powerful term. Reminded of it reading about the trafficked women in the opening bk of the Iliad & the lament of Sisera's mother in Deborah's Song #booksky #criticalbible

And this one, is more than just positing a common set of phrases in the air. #criticalbible #Plotinus is rifing on the same Platonic understanding that Paul was incorporating into Jewish Tradition to form Christianity, no? #booksky. Plato + TANAK = Christianity

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. - Gibbon, D&FRE, ch2 #booksky #criticalbible sick burn

#BiblicalHebrew #BiblicalGreek #CriticalBible #booksky Wilson's intro on transl. has me wondering about comparisons between her view on sonic fidelity to the ancient lang. and Robert Alter's. Really similar, no?

Tacitus's Histories Book V is fascinating gris for the mind mill of #criticalbible thinkers.

#criticalbible these passages were written so close together. Fascinating view of healing. Ps Vespasian was in Alexandria when this happened. #booksky

Vespasian reluctantly heals a blind man in the name of Serapis, the blind man "begged Vespasian ... moisten his cheeks ans eyeballs with his spittle." #booksky #tacitus Hist.bk4.81 cf. John 9:1-7 #criticalbible