Reviewing Michael Bird's paraphrase of Romans

[@EmilyTodicescu]

Pretty cool that Dr. Michael Bird himself showed up in the livechat!

[@danabolick5154]

Historical and hysterical! Scarce as hens teeth is used often in this area of the Appalachian foothills and I believe in most of the South. The phrase rotten as turnips feels like a phrase I used to hear from Irish/Germanic folk when I was younger. I expect it has “old roots”😂 like that turnip.

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@danabolick5154 born and raised in GA and living in the Carolinas for the past 20+ years...but I've never heard it. 😅

[@danabolick5154]

@@DiscipleDojo I was born and raised in Caldwell County NC. You should hear the crazy dialects and phrases in some of these older, holler communities. At 53, I’m still shocked by some of the things my older friends and neighbors come up with 🤣. I love this wonderful diverse world God created for us!

[@Happyland1971]

@DiscipleDojo I never knew you were in the Carolinas. Greetings from Greenville, SC!

[@AllDayML]

"It's like pulling hens teeth" - a popular American phrase to mean impossible or very difficult since hens don't have teeth. God bless you JM

[@Mark-cl2zk]

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[@stephentalas1940]

'Rarer than hen's teeth' is a fairly common expression here in the UK and probably went across with those convicts to Oz!

[@MAMoreno]

I've come across "rare as hen's teeth" from Americans, so I don't think it's limited to Australia.

[@MeederTom]

Really where did you hear that? Is it a southern thing? I was raised in New York so maybe that’s why I never heard it.

[@etiennedevignolles7538]

I am English. Rare as hens' teeth is a very common, and quite old, expression in England.

[@MM-jf1me]

As an American, I've read it many times before -- it's not an outlandish expression, but it's not one I normally use myself nor one I hear while conversing with others. Having a broadly similar background to JM, I was surprised he hadn't come across it before.

[@Leviticus_is_fun]

Great book reviews like these are as rare as hens teeth. Glad to see a fellow Australian getting some airtime. Well deserved.

[@DeanAndersen]

I think having the combination of the Greek text, interlinear ,notes and the paraphrase all in the same resource is helpful. It does seem the paraphrase may go too far and I will be sticking with the Message or the Phillips for the times when I need to read a book or a passage with fresh eyes. I wonder if the included notes are more informative than the NET Notes?

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@DeanAndersen no they are not nearly as exhaustive or technical as the NET notes.

[@MartyrsAndMetal]

I pre-ordered on Logos because of this review! This paraphrase seems like it'll be informative and hilarious.

[@jonellshelby157]

Thanks for this review. I love Michael Bird.

[@MusicalMind9]

This is such a cool book! Thank you for showing it to us!

[@MM-jf1me]

This looks like a really cool resource. Thanks for the review!

[@richardpetervonrahden6393]

Thanks so much for this detailed review. The concept of the book sounds excellent. I really like and respect Michael Bird, and am also from the Southern Hemisphere so many of the Australianisms are familiar. Unfortunately from the extracts you have read, some of the paraphrasing, especially his repeated use of assonance and alliteration, seems to be unnecessarily frivolous, and some of his selected idioms will be out of date in a couple of years. And so overall I am not too keen on reading this paraphrase, and so I won't be hunting this book down. This is a pity for Lexham (whose work I think is valuable) and for Mr Bird, whose other work I have greatly enjoyed, but it is the function of a reviewer to help the buyer decide on their purchases, and your review has been very useful in helping me with this decision.

[@dqan7372]

Great tour of the book. Very helpful. I really like the format. The paraphrase itself doesn't grab me, but I'm not in the market for a modernized paraphrase anyway.

[@elizabethhankins6973]

Come up and see us in the NC mountains, and you’ll hear the hen one from some of the older folks. :)

[@missinglink_eth]

This is what I think of when I read about Targums ❤

[@cindyanderson4757]

"Scarce as hens' teeth" familiar to this Missouri native. Did he use "fine as frogs' hair" anywhere?

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@cindyanderson4757 no, but that's great!

[@MM-jf1me]

I've never heard "fine as frogs' hair" before -- that's a fun one!

[@richardvoogd705]

I can't remember exactly where, but I've heard the saying "as rare as hen's teeth before, possibly on TV. I'm in New Zealand.

[@missinglink_eth]

Refreshing Rendition of Romans 😂

[@pablopablo1620]

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[@ApologistInDetroit]

Wait, no Romans 11 reveal? lol

[@tsm7964]

Paraphrase is for fun but for memorization the King James is by far the best.

[@3BadBostons]

So, who does he say God turns over to these desires?

[@betoinbeta]

Ehh. Not sold on this. It feels a little scattered stylistically.