Over at Novum Testamentum Blog Brandon has done an outstanding job collating the Biblioblogging world’s latest thoughts and comments. And he even likes the name “Targuman!” Thanks Brandon. Novum Testamentum Blog A Weblog Dedicated to the New Testament and Cognate Fields 04.01.07 Biblical Studies Carnival XVI Posted in weblogs at […]
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I just received this email on the Targum-L. I hadn’t thought to worry about this! So i am glad Paul did. Dear everyone heading to Lubljana for the IOTS or the IOSOT this summer, I have talked to the Slovenian embassy in Washington, and they inform me that citizens of […]
Heart of the City, by Mark Tatulli. A great a creative srip. Passages like Isa. 2 and the knowledge of humanity’s ability to hate itself make it clear to me that such prophetic utterances, in oder to be fulfilled, truly require the existence of a loving redeeming God.
I was flipping through the small concordance in the back of a TNIV Bible and found the slightly amusing header, due of course to the proximity of the words, but amusing nonetheless. Kinky.
My brother has finally convinced me to sign up for Skype. For those who do not know what this is in brief it allows you to use your computer, connected to a high speed network, to call other computers anywhere in the world for free and other (regular) phones for […]
From Christian Today – Christian News The Cambridge-based International Biblical and Theological Research Centre has appointed its youngest warden. The internationally respected evangelical centre for biblical and theological research has invited Dr Peter (Pete) Williams, currently Deputy Head of Divinity, History and Philosophy, and a senior lecturer in New Testament […]
I only heard snippets on the way home, but this sounds good and I wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention. NPR : Francis Collins on ‘The Language of God’ Geneticist Francis Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Project. He is also an evangelical Christian, and author […]
I will be moderating a panel discussion in two weeks on the biblical creation narratives and climate change. It is part of a series by PSU’s Rock Ethics Institute: Rock Ethics Institute – Climate Change. It should be a good series. It will be focused primarily upon Christian interpretations, which […]
I am sure that many of my readers have already seen or heard of Stephen Prothero’s new book concerning American’s woeful ignorance of religion, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t. One of the more amusing statistics cited was that a significant portion of high school seniors believe […]
What follows is a subsequent chapter of the work-in-progress I shared last week, Characters of God. (You can read the premise of the work and the first chapter here.) These chapters originated as meditations for a men’s and later a women’s silent retreat. The meditations originally focused upon male or […]