Queries & Comments
The Word of the Lord
In one of the questions in your interview with Phyllis Trible (“Wrestling with Scripture,” 32:02), she responded incorrectly. Professor Trible stated, “‘The word of the Lord’ is a prophetic genre, but that phrase does not appear at all in a book like Genesis.” The expression devar YHWH, “the word of the Lord” does appear in Genesis—twice (15:1 and 4)—when God speaks to Abram. In addition, the phrase ne’um YHWH, “utterance of the Lord” (one of many possible translations for this expression), which is attested several hundred times in the prophetic books, occurs in Genesis 22:16 in the story of the binding of Isaac.
Un-Biblical?
I have just read “Wrestling with Scripture” in your March/April 2006 issue. Why did you print such a thing? It is so biased and un-Biblical that it should never be printed, and especially not in a supposedly Bible-oriented magazine. You have made a mockery of the “Bible”-oriented approach you’ve always tried to give.
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