Grenfell Tower and the EU: a North-Booker red herring (part 2)
(continued from part 1) Booker and North’s main argument, as I understand it, is that: The 1999 ETRA Committee recommended that the BS…
Grenfell Tower and the EU: a North-Booker red herring (part 1)
Christopher Booker has argued (1 July 2017, also here) that our EU membership has been a contributory factor to the Grenfell Tower disaster. He…
Grenfell Tower: was the cladding legal or not? (part 3)
In my previous two posts (part 1, part 2) I have outlined the two routes offered by the Building Regulations 2010 Approved Document…
Grenfell Tower: was the cladding legal or not? (part 2)
In my last post, I pointed out the statutory requirement, contained in Article B4(1) of Schedule 1 of The Building Regulations 2010, that:…
Grenfell Tower: was the cladding legal or not? (part 1)
Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, claimed on the Andrew Marr Show on 18 June 2017 that the cladding that was used on Grenfell tower…
Psalm 89 in Brian Simmons’ ‘Passion Translation’: making interpretive decisions for the reader
Psalm 89.27 (28 in the Hebrew bible) reads: אַף־אָ֭נִי בְּכֹ֣ור אֶתְּנֵ֑הוּ עֶ֝לְיֹ֗ון לְמַלְכֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃ Here are a few translations into English: Also I will…
Psalm 78.41 in Brian Simmons’ ‘Passion Translation’: did Israel wound the Holy One, as he pretends?
Psalm 78.41 reads: וַיָּשׁ֣וּבוּ וַיְנַסּ֣וּ אֵ֑ל וּקְדֹ֖ושׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל הִתְווּ׃ The NASB, as an example of a normal translation, reads: Again and again they…
Psalm 44.4 in Brian Simmons’ ‘Passion Translation’: ‘Command deliverances for Jacob’ or ‘Decree majesties for Israel’?
In my last three posts I have looked at three cases in the Psalms where Brian Simmons, in his so-called ‘Passion Translation’, has…
Psalm 14.7 in Brian Simmons’ ‘Passion Translation’: who does he think he is?
Psalm 14.7 reads: מִ֥י יִתֵּ֣ן מִצִּיֹּון֮ יְשׁוּעַ֪ת יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל בְּשׁ֣וּב יְ֭הוָה שְׁב֣וּת עַמֹּ֑ו יָגֵ֥ל יַ֝עֲקֹ֗ב יִשְׂמַ֥ח יִשְׂרָֽאֵל׃ Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come…
Psalm 47.4 in Brian Simmons’ ‘Passion Translation’: Jacob replaced by ourselves in God’s affections
Psalm 47.4 reads (BHS): יִבְחַר־לָ֥נוּ אֶת־נַחֲלָתֵ֑נוּ אֶ֥ת גְּאֹ֨ון יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֲשֶׁר־אָהֵ֣ב סֶֽלָה׃ Let’s take this one word at a time: יִבְחַר (yiḇḥar) is the third…