TC Rhyme
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I want to propose a contest as to who can write the best rhyme to help
teach the second century manuscripts to students. I've had a brief go
myself (I was ...
The Potent Instability of Religion & Magic
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In November 2007, during one of the worst droughts in Georgia history,
then-Governor Sonny Purdue “stepped up to a podium outside the state
Capitol… and le...
Megillat Sefer Translation: A Review By Pini Dunner
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Megillat Sefer Translation: A Review
By Pini Dunner
Rabbi Pini Dunner is a scion of one of Europe’s preeminent rabbinic
families. He studied at various yes...
Dammit, Jim, I’m the Doctor
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In thinking about a talk I’m going to be giving on religion and sci-fi, in
which I’m planning on comparing the treatment of religion in Star Trek and
Docto...
Moral Virginity versus “Dirty Money”
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David Barash recounts how he turned down proferred money from a logging
company, thereby retaining his ethical purity but quite possibly doing harm
to the ...
Interview mit Kevin Vanhoozer
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Kevin Vanhoozer war Blanchard Professor für Theologie am Wheaton College
und geht nun wieder zurück an seine ehemalige Wirkungsstätte Trinity.
Justin Tayl...
Houston Baptist establishes MA Program
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I have some good friends down there, and I think the are doing some valuable work. The Houston Baptist University philosophy department is pleased to announc...
From my diary
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I’m in Chester at the moment, on personal business. Chester, I know, is a
Roman city. The street plan shows as much — it is, indeed, extraordinarily
Roma...
Keeping up with the James Ossuary Issues
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The not-guilty verdict in the Jerusalem forgery trial of Oded Golan and
Robert Deutsch, announced Wednesday, has generated an incalculable number
of news s...
Brief recap of recent travels
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Last month I was fortunate enough to be able to attend, and present a paper
at, the Patristic Symposium of the Florovsky Society at Princeton
University. I...
Greetings on the Persian New Year
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Rabbi Avi Gisser, a leading national-religious rabbi in Israel, composed a
greeting to the Iranian people to mark the Persian New Year, Nowruz. It was
post...
The Uncounted
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Transfers, part-timers, and students who take a break and re-enroll later
may look like community-college "dropouts" when, in fact, they've
accomplished th...
Gerson on Locke and religious freedom
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Michael Gerson has published an astute analysis of the current controversy
south of the border over religious freedom: Catholics, contraceptives and
John L...
Aspect Adjustment on the Jonah Ossuary
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So Robert Cargill posted another theory about the ball base of the figure
on the Jonah Ossuary, which I believe is on the right track.
When I read over it...
Was Jesus Forsaken?
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While prayerfully considering Why Does God Suffer?, I came across an
excerpt of advance material from Thomas H. McCall's Forsaken: The Trinity
and the Cros...
Christians expelled from Homs
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*From the Syrian secularist website al-Haqiqa. Arabic original here.*
*For more information about the Islamist makeup of the "Free Syrian Army"
from a sourc...
Early Jewish Christians
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Yesterday I was emailed an inquiry about “Ebionites”, the inquiry
responding to some simplistic statements asserted with astonishingly
unwarranted confiden...
Hebrews at the Regional SBL Meetings
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The Book of Hebrews is featured in at least three regional SBL meetings.
The following is what information I could ascertain from the regional
meeting web...
Great Greek classics and language resources
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Today I found "Elpenor"- some more useful Greek classics and language
resources, to add to the
amazing Perseus resources at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Th...
Origen - On Prayer
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A new text has been added to the Early Church Texts website: the concluding
sections of Origen's *De Oratione* (*On Prayer*).
Also additional links have be...
What register is the Bible written in?
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When I asked my 8 year old daughter Anna what “register” means, she
peevishly replied, “I don’t know; cash register?” But she does know what
register is, b...
Changes to Christianorigins.co.uk
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See the new ‘Welcome & Events’ tab above, for upcoming CSCO events here at
New College. We are also now adding faculty pages, with pre-pub samples of
thei...
True criticism
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In the end, it’s misleading, and perhaps false, to speak of reviews as
‘negative’ or ‘positive’. A good review should contain both elements,
judiciously ba...
On my way to Groningen
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I am getting on a plane in a few hours to make the trek across the Atlantic
to Amsterdam and then by train to Groningen. I am speaking at the
University ...
Halakhot Pesukot online
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I just noticed that the (former) Sassoon manuscript of Halakhot Pesukot has
been digitised and is available online. It's a manuscript from 10th century
Ira...
How to be a Biblical Man
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The ESV translation of 1 Corinthians 16:13 has Paul tell his audience to
“act like men.” This tradition of translation goes back at least as far as
the KJV...
What's New in March 2012
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1- Crusades
Conflict Between Christendom And Islam
Chapter 18: The Franks and the Syrian Christians Chapter 19: The
Christians under Turkish Rule
Dr. Ma...
Große Fastenzeit
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Orthodoxe Gläubige fasten ab heute sieben Wochen lang. Mit dieser
Fastenzeit bereiten sich die orthodoxen Christen für den größten
christlichen Feiertag ...
Theodore of Mopsuestia and Those Heretics
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Theodore is was the Bishop of Mopsuestia in the late 4th and early 5th
centuries, a town in the vicinity of Antioch. He was a fellow student of
the much ...
Judgeship in ‘Umayyad Spain
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The following are two short anecdotes about a judge in Cordoba, Spain
during the rule of the ‘Umayyad amir Abdallah ibn Muhammad (r. 888-912).
Both stories...
NAPS 2012 Annual Meeting Announcements
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Dear NAPS members, I am happy to announce that the program for our May 2012
meeting is now available online at the NAPS website. To access the
program, pl...
Time Out!
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With the Super Bowl behind us, I can at last put aside the numerical
complexities of football: three-point field goal; six-point touchdown;
one-point conve...
Christian Apocrypha at 2012 SBL
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Pierluigi Piovanelli, the new chair of the SBL Christian Apocrypha section,
has asked me to pass along the call for papers for this year's annual
meeting: ...
"Is the Original New Testament Lost?"
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Join us for an evening of scholarly dialogue on the origins, the
transmission, and the reliability of the New Testament. Do we have the
original manusc...
Biblia Hebraica Moves to Washington
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Or "why I only posted 20 times in 2011."
2011 was a year of transitions for me and my family. First, I switched PhD
programs at the beginning of the year...
Grammar of Akkadian with new Hebrew Appendix
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Last week Eisenbrauns announced the third edition of John Huehnergard’s A
Grammar of Akkaidan. Amongst a variety of updates and revisions, a new
appendix o...
Christian Carnival ii (2 November 2011 edition)
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Welcome to the November 2nd edition of the Christian Carnival ii, where
Christian blog writers — of various denominational backgrounds — share
their best p...
Shutting Down
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Because several people have noted the importance of certain posts, this is
how I will adjust the shutdown. As of this afternoon, this blog will go
“privat...
Moving On
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The Talmud Blog is now live as a web log collective at
www.thetalmudblog.wordpress.com. Update your RSS feeds and what have you,
and move on over. The (aca...
Beyond Greek Grammar and Syntax
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It is crucial for the Greek student to move beyond a surface level
understanding of the language. Language communicates much of what it
communicates at a ...
Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden
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This morning I took the train to North-West London on a personal pilgrimage
to the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden. A few weeks ago I received my copy
of t...
CAL seems to be back online
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I just noticed that the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, which was offline
for approximately six weeks due to a ‘hacker’, is now back on-line. What
exactly w...
Euangelion Has Moved to Patheos.com.
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Dear friends, just to let you know that Joel and I have decided to move *
Euangelion* to a new host site Patheos.com. We think this will represent a
bigger ...
Various and Sundry
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1. I just want to take a moment to say thank you to the fine folk over
at Women in Theology for tirelessly advocating for and supporting
Ford...
Three Religions, One God
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We cannot point to any three other religions that form so intimate a narrative relationship as do the successive revelations of monotheism -- Judaism, Christ...
Still working on the Psalms
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I continue to refine my reading of the psalms. I am updating all my
translation posts from 2010 slowly over the next two years with a
commentary on each ps...
Story on Salt Lake City NBC Station
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In conjunction with the celebration of Epiphany on January 6th, the NBC
affiliate in Salt Lake City did a very nice piece on the book. I was
especially gla...
Karl Barth on Commentaries
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In the preface to the second edition of The Epistle to the Romans, Karl
Barth addresses his critics who accuse him of being an opponent of
historical criti...
All things bright and beautiful?
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Whilst reading this recent piece in the Guardian by John Milbank and Philip
Blond, and brought to our attention by Roland Boer, I was, for some reason,
rem...
vv 11-20
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So ok Madinah means Ascendant, Rising and then land of the so the East but
up and down are symbols here
ܘܥܒܕܘ ܥܡܝ ܚܘܪܩܢܐ . ܘܟܬܒܘܗܝ ܒܠܒܝ ܕܠܐ ܢܬܛܢܐ
11 They ...
Jesus: First for the Jew, then for the Gentile
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Many Muslims misrepresent the Bible. I am sure they do not do this as an
act of dishonesty, but it is that the Qur’an forces them to engage in such
dishone...
Oh Those Pesky 'Angels and Demons'
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At this point it is hard to believe all the ruckus that was caused by Dan
Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which, when people calmed down, they realized it
was...
Altvater Joseph der Hesychast
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Abt Ephraim von Vatopedi: Altvater Joseph der Hesychast und die Lehre des
Inneren Gebets, die aus seinen Briefen fließt Der selige Altvater Joseph
der Hesy...
Author James Kelley explores alchemy as an important aspect of inquiry in Western Civilization in "Anatomyzing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology". The book is an attempt to afford the reader rare insights into the history and meaning of Western esotericism. Kelley is interviewed in the following podcast by Gnostic Media...
