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Tag Archives: textual criticism
The Memoir Problem and the Postwar Record: Source Criticism and the Lost Cause in the Study of Davis and His Generals
Abstract The eight case studies in this volume have repeatedly anchored their conclusions in a single methodological commitment: that contemporary correspondence must be privileged over the self-justifying memoirs of the principals, and that the later Lost Cause historiography must be … Continue reading
The Seniority Crisis of 1861: Jefferson Davis, Joseph E. Johnston, and the Origins of Confederate Command Estrangement
Abstract In late August 1861 President Jefferson Davis submitted to the Confederate Congress the names of five officers for appointment to the grade of full general, fixing their relative seniority in an order that placed Joseph E. Johnston fourth. Johnston, … Continue reading
Paper 4: The Bride Price Reconsidered: What the Mohar Texts Actually Govern
Abstract This is the honest paper of the suite. Unlike a case built on a command that grants the reader nothing, the bride-price texts do give a father a genuine role and a genuine right of refusal. Exodus 22:16–17 and … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church of God, Love & Marriage
Tagged authority, family, institutional ecology, law, legitimacy, marriage, textual criticism
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Paper 2 — The Constitutional Text: Foreign and Domestic Emoluments and the Anti-Dependence Architecture
The text as the prohibition’s strongest ground If the emoluments regime is anywhere at its most formidable, it is on the page. The clauses are short, declarative, and categorical; they do not hedge, balance, or invite the weighing of interests. … Continue reading
Posted in American History, History
Tagged emoulments, law, legitimacy, political history, textual criticism
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Steelmanning the Critic: Surfacing the Counter-Texts Yourself
Abstract This paper argues that the most credible move available to a biblicist authority is to raise the strongest objections to his own position before his critics do, and to invite testing rather than resist it. Building on the costly-signaling … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church of God, Musings
Tagged communication, legitimacy, philosophy, textual criticism
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Touch Not Mine Anointed: Anatomy of a Misused Text
Abstract This paper offers a case study in how a single verse becomes a shield for authority, demonstrating by close exegesis the difference between faithful interpretation and self-protection. The text is the divine word recorded in Psalm 105:15 and 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church of God
Tagged authority, doctrine, legitimacy, textual criticism
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Paper 6 — Synthesis: The Firstfruits Harvest and the Shape of Redemption
Sixth and final in the suite “Pentecost in the Bible: A Feast Read at Many Depths” Thesis Read together, the feast charts the whole arc of redemption and marks the hinge between what has been accomplished and what is still … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Biblical History, Christianity, Church of God, History
Tagged legitimacy, Pentecost, prophecy, textual criticism
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Paper 4 — Two Assemblies, One Feast: The Old and New Testament Church Begin on Pentecost, and What That Says About the Kingdom
Fourth in the suite “Pentecost in the Bible: A Feast Read at Many Depths” Thesis Both the congregation in the wilderness and the Spirit-born assembly at Jerusalem are founded on the same feast, and the firstfruits character of that feast … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Biblical History, Christianity, Church of God, History, Musings
Tagged identity, legitimacy, Pentecost, textual criticism
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Paper 2 — Levels of Interpretation: What Actually Happened on Pentecost
Second in the suite “Pentecost in the Bible: A Feast Read at Many Depths” Thesis Pentecost carries several meanings at once, and the meanings reinforce rather than compete with one another. A reader pressed to say what the feast is … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Biblical History, Christianity, History
Tagged doctrine, legitimacy, Pentecost, textual criticism
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From Sanhedrin to Rabbinic Authority: Reinvention in the Mishnah: An Afterlife and Memory Study
Abstract The Sanhedrin of the late Second Temple period ceased to function in any meaningful institutional sense in the wake of the First Jewish-Roman War. Yet the institution did not disappear from Jewish memory; it was remembered, codified, and reimagined … Continue reading
Posted in History, Musings
Tagged ancient history, authority, Judaism, legitimacy, textual criticism
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