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Lauren Rossen, “The Busy Body” has posted an updated review of Arnal’s The Symbolic Jesus I have not read the book, but obviously I need to. Conclusion The Symbolic Jesus is an important book that, while containing objectionable inferences along the way, makes the reader ask the right questions for […]
Comedy Central apologizes for duping 2 professors in separate incidents It wasn’t the Daily Show, but close. “A top official at the Comedy Central television station has apologized on behalf of the members of a fictitious news crew who misrepresented themselves to two faculty members during separate tapings of a […]
From their blog: [Today is] the official release date of Accordance 7! That’s right, you can purchase and download the upgrade to version 7 right now. 🙂 We’ve already covered a few of the new features in detail, and I’ll be talking about the rest in the coming weeks. You […]
This may be old news to many of you, but I just stumbled across Livius. Articles on ancient history. This site by Jona Lendering and Marco Prins appears to be a great resource. Sections include: Anatolia Carthage Egypt Greece Judaea Mesopotamia Persia Rome Achaem. Inscriptions Alexander Babyl. Chronicles Caesar Legions […]
I really like the Spurs and Tim Duncan, but the Mavs deserve their victory. (Amazing game!) I have been following Mark Cuban’s blog for a while and I am now a fan of Cuban as well. This is a good example of why: That symbolized this Mavericks team. Dirk and […]
(Thanks to The Busybody for the title above. I couldn’t beat it, so I used it!) Jim Davila gives his review of the Da Vini Code. So far he echoes the comments i have heard from others: I thought it was interesting that the movie not only corrected some errors […]
Saturday we took the ‘fam to Over the Hedge. It was great! I have long been a fan of the comic and I was a wee bit worried that it might be a hash, but no! It was a great mix of “family values” (the “family” in this case consisting […]
New Testament scholar Ben Witherington has blogged about DVC. Da Vinci Code– the Movie: “So Dark the Con of Man” ” I was prepared for this movie to be a bomb. Actually, its not. It stands up rather well as a suspensful movie, and it is not the case that […]
PVP is a fun online comic I read regularly. Be sure to read Scott’s comments. Only one nit to pick. Scott says, The Davinci Code is not revisionist history any more than Star Wars is. It’s a fictional thriller. It’s a novel. Fiction. The very word FICTION defines it as […]