Anyone care to take a stab at them? This was just one part of the exam (pick two essays for 20 points each).They aren’t the best, I know, so I would be interested in any suggestions you all might have for additional questions. The goal was to have one per […]
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I have asked the question before but I thought I would solicit your comments yet again. How is this guy anything more than a horny thug with violent tendencies? How is it that he is preserved in the canon as being a great leader of Israel? Can it really be […]
This afternoon I received the following from OUP announcing their new online resource. On quick inspection the site looks very nice (I happen to be using Coogan’s textbook this semester). What really piqued my interest was Liz’s comment that “we have been following your blog here at Oxford.” Really? Liz, […]
From Comics I Don’t Understand, worth quoting in full. Nicole: I only wish the angel had said “Oh snap”, and the god in the bonus panel had used the phrase “youthful indiscretions”
It took them long enough to notice. Die Klicky-Bibel is a great site and has been around for a while, but the news broke this past week that Playmobil is not very happy about it. ZIRNDORF, Germany (AP) — Pastor Markus Bomhard has learned that you can’t just crucify a […]
I was getting ready for church this morning and had the radio tuned to our local NPR. Unfortunately this is not a very good radio so every time I move over to the closet the radio starts picking up a Christian station. This morning the preacher (I have no idea […]
That title was not mine, but that of the print version of Carla Carlisle’s “Spectator” column in Country Life magazine from last Lent. (Thanks to Philip Jenkins for sending me a copy last week.) Carlisle is not only a columnist, but also a farmer (near as I can tell) in […]
This week’s lectionary readings are: Numbers 21:4-9 Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 The John passage has disturbed a clerical colleague because of the following portion. “18 Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed […]
That is, of course, Phyllis Trible’s terms for the many texts in the Hebrew Bible that shock our modern sensibilities as God calls for the desctruction of the Canaanites or…worse. Since 9/11 many Americans have asked and asserted that the Quran itself, with passages such as Sura 47 that begins […]