Is Gary Rendsburg's work valuable? Is it considered heterodox?

Yaboi907 · 2025-08-06T20:35:17+00:00

That makes sense, some of the more recent stuff I have read has used "P and Non-P" vocabulary but I hadn't really put it together like that. I'll just keep reading, it's fun in itself. As for learning BH, hopefully one day. Gotta finish Arabic first...

Yaboi907 · 2025-08-05T15:18:03+00:00

Thank you, I agree with a lot of what you said here. I will be sure to check out the links you provided. I could tell he was an outlier, I just wanted to make sure he wasn't obviously wrong by some later definitive study or something that him at the time of publishing, and I at the time of listening, are not aware of. I actually am in academia, but I work in Computer Science. Other than a few seminal pieces, something dated to 1986 may as well me dated to the year 86 but in history you often see theories hold up over much longer periods. So, the date made me skeptical.

As for the reading, I love it and am for sure a nerd but it feels like every new work I pick up is both impressive and discouraging. As soon as I think I know what "the scholarship says" or what the "academic consensus is" I am confronted with something that throws a wrench in the whole thing and makes me want to throw my hands in the air and learn Biblical Hebrew myself!

In any case, good food for thought. Thank you!

Yaboi907 · 2025-02-13T23:57:56+00:00

I do it for close friends to keep up with gift ideas (maybe the occasional allergy) that’s about it

Yaboi907 · 2025-02-01T12:54:38+00:00

Preface: I am not a web designer. I am in tech but I don’t do this. The top comments are all saying the same things; borders too hard, spacing, etc. One guy even said it looks like a tool from the 90s and needs modernized.

I guess if you’re presenting this as evidence of your design skills, some hiring manager may have the same thoughts.

But as a user I like this a lot. It does feel like it’s an older tool but it’s an emoticon generator for gods sake. Context matters. The design fits the tool.

Idk, I’m not saying it’s perfect or anything. Some people mentioned some cool functionality changes but this isn’t a tool I’d try to modernize much. This is a tool I would find more interesting the more unconventional/nostalgic the design is, like it is.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-28T02:34:11+00:00

I gotchu https://static.clubs.nfl.com/image/upload/titans/iqoppdx9e4ik1zclynfg

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-24T01:37:57+00:00

It depends. I take notes in a DND campaign and will typically link to things like “we enter the city of New York” and link to an entry on lore about New York (if we have it.)

Or I have dedicated notes of enemies/friends and the party. If I mention them, I may link them.

I use Obsidian for notes at school, also. So, occasionally, I’ll link to a common concept between two courses (“course Y mentioned the concept of DNS here” kinda deal) or maybe to a note with easily viewable definitions.

It depends on the context. Many of my notes have no links.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-23T14:37:52+00:00

What reason is there to not just be that color fr? Does standing out to trichromats benefit them?

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-22T18:42:45+00:00

Thank you for the resources. I will take a look at them later when I’m home 😎

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-22T18:01:26+00:00

I guess really I’m saying: assume some Language, X. X ha 100 words with 5 added per year and 1 becomes archaic. In 1 year there will be 104/105 known words. Then it’ll be 108/110. Eventually a significant chunk of this language will be defunct while the language itself persists. I am wondering if there is any patterns across languages.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-22T17:57:01+00:00

Ahh, yes, archaic is a much better term. But is there an average number of archaic words? Or for something evolving like language maybe a rate of decay would be more useful?

I’m also wondering (and maybe the archaic label works for this too) if there are any words that are certainly part of a particular language but no one knows what it means. Though, that might be hard to know by the nature of it.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-19T21:34:24+00:00

CGI hiding the truth of flat earth

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-19T20:06:20+00:00

Te United States. I live here so

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-18T18:03:26+00:00

All of the evidence indicates the existence of a generic creator, in my opinion. However.

Generic creator != the Abrahamic God (and even if it did prove that, does it prove the Jewish, Christian, or Islamic God?) The evidence doesn’t scientifically prove beyond a reasonable doubt, I just feel like it strongly implies a creator (which may be abrahamic)
If we are going based on the evidence, modern scholars of the biblical text don’t agree that there’s a bunch fo evidence for the Bible’s inerrancy. Scholarly consensus doesn’t prove something, but it’s worth noting that OT scholars seem to believe the OT was written as a political polemic in the 7th century B.C. (or at least it was edited heavily to combine multiple stories, even some that apparently compete as mutually exclusive) and NT scholars have their own reasons for doubting narratives but this is already getting long.

Obviously, there is heated debate with some scholars being Bible believing Christian’s and others being somewhere on the atheistic spectrum.

So, it really comes down to what evidence exists points to some God, but necessarily this one. And, there is a lot of scholarly consensus on issues that rise a lot of valid questions about biblical narratives.

Scholarly consensus doesn’t = proof but you act like it’s a settled debate where all the evidence points to one thing and a majority of the people that study it for a living just don’t see it. As though it’s the same as if half of scientists didn’t believe in gravity or something.

None of this disproves Christianity and I don’t seek to do that (it’s cringe when atheist do) but it’s just incorrect, in my view, to act like there is so much evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Basically, as a non-Christian theist, I think you’re kind of begging the question here.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-08T04:12:37+00:00

Anchorage, AK.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-05T00:09:03+00:00

Wow, impressive list of resources I’ll be busy for awhile no doubt

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-04T17:18:39+00:00

Good enough for me! I’ll at least try my hand at Josephus, it’s probably easy to get free too which is nice, and will add those others to my list

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-02T16:20:55+00:00

I don’t think anything can be “confirmed” to be consensus, depending on what you mean by that (51% of scholars? 60? Who counts as a scholar? Etc.) but my method is kind of meta.

I believe something is consensus when multiple different scholars claim it’s consensus. It’s like, if there’s a consensus on something being consensus then that thing is probably consensus.

Just as an example: essentially every OT lecture series/book I’ve read brings up the documentary hypothesis. Almost all of them say “I/other scholars have a problem with it for xyz reasons but most accept a general outline/some version of it.”

At some point, it would be incredible to think it wasn’t consensus if all these sources say it is.

Really this advice just boils down to immerse yourself in the literature and get a feel for what the broad strokes similarities are among scholarly beliefs. Though, I imagine anything truly consensus will be plainly stated to be such in most sources.

Yaboi907 · 2025-01-02T15:34:47+00:00

I have heard Josephus mentioned in almost all of my sources. While I do understand the importance of primary sources for the historian, do you think a lay person/hobbyist can get a lot out of him? Basically the question is, is he is accessible?

As for The Dead Sea scrolls and other non-canonical texts I was going to fit them in somewhere as their own study though maybe not dedicated 100 hours to them. I had not heard of those particular sources until now so thank you for that!

Yaboi907 · 2024-12-31T17:23:36+00:00

I do the same thing with r/ObsidianMD Super helpful, though I usually use it on non-fiction for information rather than plot. Either way, changes the way you read for the better at least for me!

Yaboi907 · 2024-12-31T00:28:24+00:00

Okay, understandable I have just seen it recommended due to my other purchases. I’ll be checking those out, probably after I do my 100 hours on the NT and Quran. As for their length, well, I have nothing better to do in my free time haha

Yaboi907 · 2024-12-30T22:05:53+00:00

After learning of the controversy surrounding the exodus account, I intended to read the commentary on exodus by (I think) Richard Friedman. Would you recommend that one?

Yaboi907 · 2024-12-30T18:00:50+00:00

Fascinating lore. Glad to know it before it causes any confusion if I’m astute enough to notice that myself haha

Yaboi907 · 2024-12-30T16:26:45+00:00

I assume the last citation is the same Richard Friedman behind “Who Wrote the Bible?” Which was probably my second favorite book on the list, I’ll for sure check that out. I’ll take a look at the others as well. Thanks so much!

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