I have written on the different ways of dealing with the tetragram in translation here, but, as I just got my own copy of The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter, let me quote him directly on his decision as a translator.
“Yahweh” would have given the English version a certain academic-archaeological coloration that I preferred [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Alter on Translating the Tetragram
Posted in Hebrew Bible, tagged alter, pentateuch, tetragrammaton, translation, yhwh on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Antony: Philosophers Without Gods
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged atheism, dennet, Ethics, morality, new atheism, pascal, philosophers, religion, sam harris, transcendence on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
Louise M. Antony, ed.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Oxford University Press, 2007
In this collection of essays a number of atheist philosophers write to stand up for themselves, to show that they are neither immoral nor soul-less, so to speak. I applaud the purpose of the volume, to “introduce” atheistic [...]
Pinnock and Callen on Sola Scriptura
Posted in Hermeneutics, tagged creed, inerrancy, infallibility, magisterium, orthodoxy, pinnock, sola scriptura on January 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wrote some thoughts on sola scriptura in practice, but Clark Pinnock and Barry Callen—actual, you know, theologians—put it far better than I in The Scripture Principle (105):
A further safeguard of the truth was located in church authority. Christians began to think in terms of an authoritative institution that would not be subject to human [...]
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