For those of you in my class who read this blog (all two of you ;-), Tyler Williams reports Another New LXX Book: The Legend of the Septuagint There is a new book on the Septuagint that focuses on the legends surrounding its origins (the Letter of Aristeas), as well […]
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UPDATE: BetUS.com is giving 10-1 odds that the world will end. (Thanks to Mike and Mike in the Morning for the tip, although they said the odds were 10,000-1.) I do not recommend betting, but I suppose if you go for this one…. How would you collect? I agree so […]
This evening I was at an event where the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, the Right Reverend Wolf spoke. She recalled her time spent living in homeless shelters as a homeless person (this was during her sabbatical and she readily admits that the fact that she always had a home […]
If you click on my profile you will see that I live in (near) New Orleans and that I teach at Tulane University. Needless to say we have been through a lot this year. Whenever catastrophes of this magnitude occur someone always seems eager to step forward and say that […]