There’s an interesting article in the New York Times discussing the possible impact language has on perception. These ideas clearly have some relevance to the translation and understanding of biblical texts, but there is also some danger in proposing speculative interpretations based on the perceived significance of distinctive characteristics of Hebrew. Of course, this wouldn’t…
Month: August 2010
indecision 2010
Image by haikugirlOz via Flickr The election appears to be over. Well, the voting part of it. But now we’re faced with a hung parliament and the horse trading with the independents and Greens as one or the other major party seeks to form a government. It suggests to me that the label assigned by…
sutherland to surf 2010
Another Sutherland to Surf fun run took place on the 25th July. The weather was more pleasant than last year, but my preparation was not as good. Nonetheless I cut about half a minute off my overall time, so in the circumstances I was quite pleased. The results this year were not separated into runners…