December Interregnum Part 2: The Ancient Greek Text and Reading the New Testament
What do you do when the original manuscripts are different from what we think we know?
Merry Christmas! Not that this essay is about Christmas, because, you know…it isn’t. I kind of forgot about Christmas when I was planning to write this one, and then I just got busy with streaming on Twitch and cleaning my living room and a bunch of other things, so I didn’t change it and it isn’t about Christmas. HAHAHA ROFFLES L0LLERSKATES
Anyway, I haven’t been wanting to get back to regular essays until the start of 2023; for some reason there’s just something satisfying about beginning again at the beginning of the year. It isn’t even a resolutions thing for the new year. It’s more about the mild OCD I have about things lining up with each other in pleasing ways. What’s that? Why, yes, I do always have the TV volume set to an even number, and yes, ideally that number would be a multiple of 4. Why do you ask?
So two essays left for this year before we get back to it. In this one, I’m going to discuss a problem for interpreting the New Testament; next week will then be a review of what we’ve done so far and a preview of what is coming up in the next little while.
The problem I’ll be discussing here is one among many issues in the epistemology and interpretation of the scriptures. We’ll get to all those issues eventually, but I just wanted to discuss this one now because I’ve been thinking about it and because many people are going to begin reading the New Testament soon.
