Questions tagged [scope]
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What precisely is "Biblical Hermeneutics?"
Having answered a number of questions and engaged in comments, my conclusion is that BHSE is hamstrung by two factors:
A lack of clarity in defining what Hermeneutics actually is. I've taken many ...
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Why is the Trinity tag required? Are there other required tags we should be aware of?
Why is the Trinity tag required?
Earlier this month I was surprised to see a moderator remove what seemed to me to be a more relevant tag for a question and replace it with the Trinity tag. This ...
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Tag and On-Topic-Scope concerning "gnostic-gospels"
There has been some discussion on non-canonical texts. The majority of the contributors in
What about Gnostic texts?
What texts are open for examination?
seem to agree that questions on the Gospel of ...
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Site for Biblio software usage questions
Is this the SE site for asking usage questions about Biblio software?
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This looks like a well-masked theological question
The Question: Are John 1:14 and Philippians 2:5-8 describing the same event?
I waited to raise this on the BH.meta until the Question had been answered so as not to interfere with the answer approval ...
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May I ask a question, about Euclid's use of Greek prepositions, on the main site?
A recent answer referenced Bullinger's The Companion Bible quoting Euclid in regard to the use of eis and emphasising how Euclid had used the preposition, in a strictly geometric sense, and how this ...
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I wasn't able to find in the on-topic page what exactly this site is about in terms of what are the rules in answering questions
I wasn't able to find in the on-topic page what exactly are like the...rules or paradigms or not sure of term for the site. Hopefully you'll know what I mean by the end of this post.
The thing is......
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What does it mean for a Question to "Arise from a Biblical text"?
Arising from a Biblical Text - 2011 to 2020
In the 'On Topic' article, we point users to this 9 year old Meta Question to clarify the idea of Questions needing to 'arise from' the text. Now, whilst ...
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Criticism of Second Esdras' First Two Chapters
Among the Apocrypha of the Latin Vulgate, there is a certain book, called Second Esdras, which is found neither in the Masoretic Text, nor in the Greek Septuagint. Its first two and last two chapters ...
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Two questions using [tools-of-biblical-studies] being voted to be closed
Some time ago, I made a question about the usage of Gesenius's Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon using the tag [tools-of-biblical-studies]. According to the tag definition
For requests for resources that ...
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Can someone please add a description to the "Biblical Theology" tag?
Without a description I think the biblical-theology tag will be overused.
I'm not even sure it is relevant to this site.
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Personally, I think it is a meaningless term and the tag should be ...
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Are questions about hermeneutical approaches still on topic?
Reviewing recent questions tagged hermeneutical-approaches, I couldn't help but notice that quite a few of them have been marked "on-hold." Some are closed as "primarily opinion-based" while others ...
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Are translation/pronunciation questions on topic?
I've come across a Hebrew word that I don't know how to pronounce. The word is
השגחה, which means providence. Sometimes, השגחה פרטית, Divine Providence.
After attempting to use automated ...
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Hermeneutic tools [duplicate]
Recently two questions about other tools were asked on Hermeneutics Meta (this site): one on biblehub.com and one on BDAG. A question on the main site about searching in the Vulgate currently has two ...
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Feedback request: Is this question off topic?
If not, can it be brought on topic?
Who planted the assembly in Rome to whom Paul wrote "Romans"?