Comments on: Ancient Hebrew Poetry: What’s Wrong with Seminaries? Why Don’t They Provide Solid Training in Biblical Interpretation? http://www.witheringfig.com/biblical-studies/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/ In principio erat Verbum... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: How NOT To Learn Biblical Greek | Withering Fig http://www.witheringfig.com/biblical-studies/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/comment-page-1/#comment-651 How NOT To Learn Biblical Greek | Withering Fig Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:00:31 +0000 http://www.witheringfig.com/2007/07/12/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/#comment-651 [...] a recent article I alluded to some issues with language study in modern theological training (though, for more on [...] [...] a recent article I alluded to some issues with language study in modern theological training (though, for more on [...]

]]> By: stephen http://www.witheringfig.com/biblical-studies/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/comment-page-1/#comment-649 stephen Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:24:14 +0000 http://www.witheringfig.com/2007/07/12/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/#comment-649 Hey John, Thanks for your comments, they are greatly appreciated. I agree whole-heartedly...it seems silly to me that the text be so venerated, and yet, in a certain way, so ignored. -Stephen Hebert Hey John,
Thanks for your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
I agree whole-heartedly…it seems silly to me that the text be so venerated, and yet, in a certain way, so ignored.
-Stephen Hebert

]]> By: John Hobbins http://www.witheringfig.com/biblical-studies/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/comment-page-1/#comment-642 John Hobbins Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:42:14 +0000 http://www.witheringfig.com/2007/07/12/ancient-hebrew-poetry-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-seminaries-why-don%e2%80%99t-they-provide-solid-training-in-biblical-interpretation/#comment-642 Hi Stephen, your reflections are candid and disarming. Ideally, a fine sermon, like a Disney flick or an episode of the Simpsons, will be understandable on multiple levels simultaneously. A 4 year old will take in Lion King at his level, his father, at another. Both will be moved by it, but in different ways. It is not good that sermons today often make sense on one level only, that of the layperson with little or no background in either scripture or tradition. Finally, it is hard to take seriously a tradition's claim to honor Scripture above all other texts, if no one in that tradition thinks it worthwhile to read Scripture in the original languages. John Hobbins Hi Stephen,

your reflections are candid and disarming. Ideally, a fine sermon, like a Disney flick or an episode of the Simpsons, will be understandable on multiple levels simultaneously. A 4 year old will take in Lion King at his level, his father, at another. Both will be moved by it, but in different ways.

It is not good that sermons today often make sense on one level only, that of the layperson with little or no background in either scripture or tradition.

Finally, it is hard to take seriously a tradition’s claim to honor Scripture above all other texts, if no one in that tradition thinks it worthwhile to read Scripture in the original languages.

John Hobbins

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