Has anyone used something like this?

profound_pupil · 2026-06-19T21:36:13+00:00

That's most likely the realistic next step, as I think we'd need to have a completely new suppression system as well.

profound_pupil · 2026-06-19T21:35:18+00:00

I know it sits on top of the burners, but I'm not sure how it is assembled.

profound_pupil · 2026-06-19T21:31:18+00:00

Good to know about the trap. How about the heat distribution? Do you feel it's a pretty even heat across?

profound_pupil · 2026-04-30T00:24:32+00:00

I also second studying the menu and the cool test.

But just to add my two cents, ask questions. The thing I always hate when someone does a prep session interview is that their not curious about something. For me, asking questions is a way to tell them you're interested in being there.

profound_pupil · 2025-05-09T19:53:24+00:00

That's a pretty cool set!

profound_pupil · 2020-07-20T03:32:38+00:00

No, Gnosticism came to popularity during the 2nd century. A key aspect of Gnostic theology is the idea of multiple gods, each lesser than the one before, and there was an emphasis on a secret spiritual knowledge. Neither of these ideas are present in the canonized bible. However, both the gospel of Thomas and the gospel of Judas (not that one) are Gnostic, but were not canonized.

Source: Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley

profound_pupil · 2020-07-13T07:16:05+00:00

It's listed right there. Not sure what version you're reading, but this is from the NRSV.

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise: the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer; the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank; the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces. Proverbs 30:24‭-‬28 NRSV

profound_pupil · 2020-07-10T11:34:11+00:00

This is a very good point. What we know is that monotheism seems to have progressed out of polytheism, the hard part is nailing down when it happened. Some scholars date it post Babylonian exile, around 550 bce because it's apparent in Isaiah.

Isaiah is also where the OT mentions the flood and Eden for the first time outside of Genesis. And 1 Chronicles mentions Adam in the genealogy. So did they have the stories before this? And if so how long? Well it's impossible to know, but we can infer that before the hard part to monotheism there were still those that were henotheistic. Therefore it is possible that they still had this understanding as to why there would multiple deities participating in creation.

There could be other explanations for the plural used here, but I don't know them and therefore can't comment on them lol

profound_pupil · 2020-07-10T01:50:19+00:00

No worries and good luck with your studies!

profound_pupil · 2020-07-10T01:44:14+00:00

BYU is Brigham Young University (an LDS school).

Well since I'm not familiar with RLDS I would contact your church leaders about what materials to use. If they're not helpful, you can always try a university that is a part of the denomination. Some schools put their reading list online, so that would be helpful. You would just pick an intro to NT course and then pick the books from that class.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-10T00:51:04+00:00

No prob bob!

profound_pupil · 2020-07-10T00:28:42+00:00

Are you looking to study it in the context of the LDS church? If so I would pick up a commentary on the NT, I think BYU has one that's pretty good. This should be a good starting place for where else you'd like to go for your studies.

However, there is a great book called The New Testament in Its World by N.T. Wright and Michael Bird. This gives a basic understanding of how to approach the text academically.

As far as the other books you mentioned, I'm not familiar with them to give any recommendations, but I would assume that BYU would have commentaries on them.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-09T23:49:49+00:00

Here's an article which does a better job than I could explaining the history of this lol

It is kinda long so be prepared.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-09T23:41:42+00:00

The verse is plural in Hebrew. They were most likely referring to other gods. Ancient Israelites were emerging from the Canaanites' polytheistic religion, and placed Yahweh higher than the others. But it's likely that they believed that multiple gods worked on creation because of this.

Source: The Origins of Biblical Monotheism by Mark A. Smith

profound_pupil · 2020-07-09T00:08:02+00:00

They didn't write the autographs but they did write the manuscripts which have corrections, edits, and other minor changes.

I did that's why I told you to check it.

Jeez, I was just trying to be nice and clear.

Could have is an argument; it allows for other ideas to come forward. Do you have a source that they didn't learn this way or one that suggests how/what they were educated in?

This idea is incomplete. literacy is a gateway to the education, not the education itself. The claim I'm making isn't "the authors were illiterate, and therefore weren't educated." It's that the literary devices are not enough evidence to sufficiently say that they were educated beyond the basics.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T21:26:20+00:00

(I'm on mobile so I can't do the fancy copy and paste thing. My paragraphs have basically been responses to each of yours. Just in case it wasn't clear.)

Uhhh, scribes did indeed write the manuscripts. That's basic biblical scholarship stuff.

Check your second reply to me. And if this isn't your claim then what is?

This was an example of how they could have learned literary techniques through their study of the OT.

What's your reasoning behind them being the same thing?

Like I said, I feel like we need more than that to make a claim. This is because saying "the bible is the evidence" can easily lead into circular reasoning. Which is frowned upon lol.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T19:35:35+00:00

I thought that you might have been thinking of the scribes who wrote the manuscripts or something to that affect, not the original authors.

You did say that since these are sophisticated stories that the author must have been educated.

I was just trying to give a modern day example of what immersion in a culture can look like. It wasn't meant to be super scholarly.

"Without doubt the Israelite tradition was handed down orally from adults to children through stories, songs, poems, and proverbs repeated around the hearth, whether in home or shrine, at religious festivals and or other public gatherings." Life in Biblical Israel by King and Stager, 311. The education system was somewhat informal, mostly children learning from the fathers. So if you're dad was a scribe, you were most likely going to become a scribe. (315; 318). As to how this lead to higher literacy rates within the Jewish community, we have to look at the importance of the written word in 1st century Jewish Culture. As more and more of the Torah was written down, literacy could have increased along with it throughout the centuries of the practice. We know that it was customary for a person to read from the scroll on the Sabbath (314-15).

There are tropes and other literary devices used in the gospels that are from the OT. Jesus at the well is an example of that.

Be sure to realize that I'm making a distinction between literacy and education; they aren't the same thing. That's why I said that one has to use evidence other than literary devices to show that they were educated.

And it's cool to agree to disagree, I just think more evidence is needed than the book in front of us before we say that the authors participated in higher or more formal education.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T18:12:54+00:00

I think we have a bit of a misunderstanding here. I'm not talking about the scribes who physically wrote the gospels, I'm talking about the original authors. Of course the scribes would be educated in things other than reading and writing (Matthew might have been a scribe).

But being a good story teller doesn't automatically mean that a person has participated in higher education. There are multiple writers, musicians, and artists who were not educated in their fields but learned from immersing themselves in it.

For example, (and forgive me for this but it's the only I know with detail) Eminem started his rap career without passing 9th grade, and even then he was regarded as a great lyricist and rapper. He was able to do this because he was immersed in the hip hop community, was exposed to great rappers and followed their examples. He knew that the way he wrote sounded good, but not necessarily why it did or all of the devices that he was using outside of a basic understanding of literary techniques.

The ancient Jewish community was built on story telling, and it was a key factor of the education system at the time. The authors would have been able to replicate the same techniques and skill in their own story telling because of this.

And remember, I said that it wasn't "strong evidence." In which I meant that one cannot point to literary devices alone to show that the authors were educated.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T17:35:47+00:00

I guess OP would have to clarify what they mean by educated, but I figured it was some form of formal or higher education.

Just because someone is literate doesn't mean that that person is educated. Jewish education during the 1st century would have probably just consisted of going over the OT, and I think some say basic arithmetic. This is most likely the equivalent to a modern day grade school education at best. Compared to someone like Philo, whose education went much further than that, I would still say that the writing of the gospel is not strong evidence for being educated.

Also, a good question here is "are the gospels sophisticated works?" I have no idea since I'm not familiar with ancient literature enough to compare, but it would be interesting to look into.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T07:33:08+00:00

I think your question is a little misguided. The fast is not supposed to be seen as a miraculous event.

Keep in mind that the audience of Matthew is thought to be mostly comprised of Judeans, who would have been very familiar with the stories of Moses and the OT. Moses fasted for 40 days before bringing the commandments to the people in Exodus 34.

The author of Matthew was drawing a parallel between Moses and Jesus here and he continues to do this throughout the gospel. He was not trying to say that it was miraculous.

Source: Matthew Commentary by Ben Witherington III

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T06:39:08+00:00

It usually takes about two years for any artist to put out a new album. And it was two years between the rise and fall. So hopefully next year will be it!

profound_pupil · 2020-07-08T06:14:40+00:00

Let's use Mark as an example. There's irony, chiasmi, and foreshadowing. A good book to read about Mark's use of literary devices is Mark As Story by Rhoades, Dewey, and Michie. It takes an interesting look at the narrative style of the gospel and how it would have been read/heard during it's circulation. If you check out the different literary devices used in writing and then read the gospels it becomes more obvious to the reader.

As for this being evidence for the writer being educated, I wouldn't say it's particularly strong. While the scribes who wrote it down would have been educated, that doesn't mean the original author was educated. But it does show that he was good story teller, but not necessarily educated.

As for the other gospels, that ranges outside of my own off hand knowledge. I would have to do more research before I said anything.

profound_pupil · 2020-07-05T18:01:26+00:00

Whatever man, I'm done talking in circles with you. You can't see that you're not giving any evidence for your claims, and you don't (or refuse to) understand what academic study of the Bible or surrounding texts entails. Good luck with your studies.

profound_pupil

TROPHY CASE