Posted in zwingli on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For his slanderous, evil, vile, wretched, heartbreaking, foul, discouraging, wicked, satanic, demonic, Wrigtianistic, Tillingistic, confounding, confusing depraved attack on a dead man. Doug Chaplin, winner of this week’s Total Depravity of Humanity Award and in addition he also receives the Total Depravity of Humanity Lifetime Achievement Award.
Pray for his soul. If there’s anything left of [...]
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Posted in current events on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the woman who walked into the Church and shot at her soon to be ex-husband… And it all happened about 2.5 hours from here. Whew… With all the folk out there who love me like they do, I’m surprised that it wasn’t me. And no, Chris Tilling, don’t get any ideas you Limey gun-toter.
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That’s the title of a forthcoming book by Philip Davies to be published later this year by Westminster John Knox. The table of contents follows:
1. Bible, History and ‘Biblical History’
Biblical History?
The Biblical Historian
Bible
History
‘The Bible as History’
Summary
PART ONE: RESOURCES
2. Bible I: Chronology, Facts and Causality
Chronology
The monarchs of Israel and Judah
Before the monarchs, and after
Facts
Causality
Summary
3. Bible [...]
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News today indicating that the National Geographic Channel will air a special on Herod’s Tomb later in the year. The MediaWeek blurb says
As documentaries have long been Nat Geo’s stock in trade, the net has a wide array of long-form specials in the works, including Herod’s Lost Tomb, which will give the world its [...]
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Posted in church history on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a reversal of the Papal Bull Exsurge Domine, Pope Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) is now telling God he need not rise up at all, but instead he should take his seat: Luther’s not a heretic after all!
Pope Ratzinger- I hate to break it to you- but you’re a bit late. Luther’s already dead. Telling God [...]
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This notice just arrived:
the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org) has recently published the following article:
Raz Kletter, “The Friends of Antiquities” (in Heb. נאמני עתיקות): The Story of an Israeli Volunteer Group and Comparative Remarks.
Abstract
The ‘Friends of Antiquities” were members of a unique body of volunteers, which was active in Israel for forty years, since its [...]
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The folk at the so called ‘Christian Coalition’ of Georgia (and while I wouldn’t quibble with the ‘coalition’ bit I do disagree with their bastardization of the word ‘Christian’- they are hardly scarcely that) has come out in favor of folk toting guns to church. Astonishingly, while they want an armed congregation (what imbeciles) [...]
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Posted in biblioblogs on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
E.V. has hit the putative nail on the figurative head with his recent expose.
Yup…
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Posted in archaeology on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Jonathan Reed is lecturing in San Antonio on archaeology and biblical studies. If you are in the area- you should go. He’s great fun!
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