Brad and Jen: a scholarly discussion

Like most American families, we often devote our dinner table conversation to the subject of hermeneutics, the science of interpretation. Just the other night, my young son Erasmus -- not his real name, nor his real inclination -- was questioning the translation of the Hebrew "qhl" in the New Revised Standard Version of the Book of Ecclesiastes. (Full article: 712 words)

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