The Bible's Competing Eschatologies
Despite the fact that my blog would lead persons to believe I've been taking courses on Mark this semester (actually, I've never had one undergrad or grad course on Mark's Gospel), for the last 7 months, from an academic standpoint I've been working on nothing but the Hebrew Scriptures. Currently, I am translating my way through Micah and yesterday when I crossed paths with Micah 4.1-5 I was stopped dead in my tracks. Here's what those verses say (my rough translation): (1) And it will be in the end of the days that the mountain of the house of God will be established as chief and it will be lifted up from the hills and His peoples will stream to it. (2) And many nations will come and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob and He will instruct us in His ways and we will walk in His paths.' For from Zion the Law shall go forth and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (3) And He will judge between many peoples an...