Posted in archaeology on March 10, 2008 | 12 Comments »
[Originally posted Mar 2 at 9:59 P.M.]-
UPDATE: It’s been a little over a week since the program aired. In the meanwhile I’ve attended the regional SBL and while there happened upon a book titled Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel, edited by John Day and published by Continuum. In it sits an [...]
Posted in conferences on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Via Joseph Lauer-
The Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies & The YU Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Relations
invite you to a mini-symposium:
“Puzzling Out the Past : New Technologies Reveal Ancient Jewish Inscriptions”
Speakers:
Professor Bruce Zuckerman (University of Southern California),
Pinchas Roth and Eytan Zadoff (YU Schneier Center Graduate Fellows)
March 13, 2008, 2:45-3:45, Belfer Hall [...]
Posted in biblical studies on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My copy of the latest Logos software offering (of interest to me, anyway) arrived today so I’ve been playing around with it a bit. It’s their Semitic Inscriptions: Analyzed Texts and English Translations. It contains
* The Hebrew and Canaanite Inscriptions
* The Hebrew and Canaanite Inscriptions in English Translation
* Glossary to the Hebrew and [...]
Posted in news on March 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Governor of New York- Mr Ness, the crime fighter, the destroyer of misrepresentation, etc., has himself been guilty of employing prostitutes. ABC News reports
A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in a prostitution ring was caught on a federal wiretap. The official says [...]
Posted in conferences on March 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Daily Reflector of East Carolina University notes
ECU hosts Jarvis Lecture — A biblical archeologist will speak at the 16th annual Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture at 7:30 p.m. March 31 at the Harvey Banquet Hall at the Murphy Center. William G. Dever will present “Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and [...]
Posted in church history, current events on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We Southern Baptists have, collectively (though certainly not individually, since a lot of us have been ‘green’ for a good while), finally come to the realization that we are stewards of the earth and charged with its care. I know, you’re thinking, duh. But our leaders have been too bent on gaining and [...]
Posted in current events on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And here’s the evidence. If you think big oil is ripping people off, wait till you take a gander at how big education is doing so. With thanks to Katie for the tip.
Posted in current events on March 10, 2008 | 11 Comments »
That according to the ruling of last week as reported by Christianity Today:
“California courts have held that under provisions in the Education Code, parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children,” wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey for California’s Second District Court of Appeal. The parents, identified in court papers only by [...]
Posted in church history on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s the title of a booklet published by Heinrich Bullinger published on this day in 1568. Or, according to the full title (oh I love those 16th century titles consisting of phrase after phrase… 
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Das man die todten beyn nitt solle harfür graben samlen und behalten oder fürstellen sunder in di erden vergraben. Wider die [...]
