Just for Fun: Some Word Play in Mark 16

Practicing what I preach, I read Mark daily in January, and on the last day ran across two Greek-English oddities in Mark 16. First, Mark 16:2 begins, “Very early on the first day of the week, [the women] came to the tomb, the sun having risen.”  Of course, the “Son” as well as the “sun” … [Read more…]

“A Sunday Hope”

That’s the title of this short piece I posted the last Sunday of January on National Review Online.  I’ll note that the post has attracted 168 comments so far, but I have no idea whether that is a high or low number for this venue.  Anyway, here’s the post (and I hope all my fellow … [Read more…]