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Greek Quote of the week #1

Το πρωινό είναι το σημαντικότερο γεύμα της ημέρας.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

For more on this popular belief see:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878450X17300045

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181126-is-breakfast-good-for-your-health

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/breakfast-lose-weight

Our Motto, then, is…

Sunday, March 13th, 2022

Our motto, then, is “back to the Hebrew text”.

It is not enough to browse through various magazine articles, and retail at second or even at third hand the facts or fancies of others. We must get back to the ordinary Hebrew sources and verify the results for ourselves.

If need be, we must copy the devotion of the old Rabbis who did not scruple to burn the midnight oil in the prosecution of their studies. “Hananiah ben Hezekiah,” says the Babylonian Talmud, “is of blessed memory, for but for him Ezekiel would have been declared apocryphal, because his words contradicted the words of the Law: three hundred jars of lamp oil were brought to him, and he sat in his garret and solved the contradictions.” That is his example to Hebrew students to-day. Let them toil as he did at their Old Testament tasks. And they shall yet know something of the beauty of the language and the loftiness of the thought, when they have learned.

Adams, John. Sermons in Accents: Or, Studies in the Hebrew Text. London; New York: T&T Clark, 1906.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Quote of the Week for Sunday, March 13th, 2022

How is the modern preacher to make sure that he is retailing week by week the fully verified results of Biblical exegesis?

Only in one way:

he must get back to the ordinary Hebrew sources and verify the results for himself. If the cause of truth is to be safeguarded from the extravagance of ἀγνωσία, the preacher of the future must sit down and grapple with the minutiæ of the text.

Adams, John. Sermons in Accents: Or, Studies in the Hebrew Text. London; New York: T&T Clark, 1906.

Another Quote of the Day

“If you have no morphology, you have no theology.”

Dr. Peter Gentry

Quote of the day

חפשו בתורה היטב ואל תסתמכו על דברי

“Search in the Torah carefully and do not rely on my words”

this quote is often attributed to Anan ben David one of the major founders of what would later become known as Karaism. However, as this line of thought is very much parallel to the concept of Ad Fontes: Back to the Sources (למקורות), I thought it was worth posting here.









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