BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.
He works from Charlottesville, Virginia as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute and managing editor of Mises.org.
He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante and a layabout, at least in spirit.
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March 14th, 2009 by 
bkmarcus
In my previous post, I linked “listening to” to Bart D. Ehrman’s courses at the Teaching Company, but it just occurred to me that the first audio commentary I heard on the Bible was from Mises.org’s archive of Robert LeFevre talks:
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March 14th, 2009 by bkmarcus
I find the KJV difficult to read, but I love reading and listening to biblical scholarship. Here’s something you miss if you try to read the Bible for yourself:
Genesis 24:63. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
(This is the first time Isaac and his bride-to-be see each other.)
Genesis 24:64. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
Apparently "meditate" is a guess at an untranslatable word that appears nowhere else in the Bible, and "she lighted off the camel" is a mistranslation of "she fell off the camel."
So Isaac went out to ____ in the field, and when Rebecca saw him, she fell off her camel.
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