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I follow this scholar on YouTube, he has a lot of good things to say.
This short recently caught my attention. It's about Noah.
www.biblegateway.com
I think he's right. This is an interesting example of traditions involving interpretations that go beyond the text.
But the bible is oblique enough or sparing enough in detail that - well don't many interpretations require extrapolating beyond the text? Or at least some extra biblical knowledge for context?
This short recently caught my attention. It's about Noah.
Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 5:32-10:1 - New International Version
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. Wickedness in the World - When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they...
I think he's right. This is an interesting example of traditions involving interpretations that go beyond the text.
But the bible is oblique enough or sparing enough in detail that - well don't many interpretations require extrapolating beyond the text? Or at least some extra biblical knowledge for context?
