Due to be formally presented on the 6th of May- Heinrich Bullinger’s Sermonum Decades quinque, de potissimis Christianae religionis capitibus (1549–1552) . Oh happy day! A modern German edition has been out for a few months now so it’s great news that the Latin version (the ‘original’) is on the cusp.
Here’s a couple more coming out soon that folk who read here (by which I mean, the most intelligent folk in the world) may like to know about:
Lexicon of the Septuagint, by J. Lust
New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ, by Thomas Schreiner
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The print version of JSOT arrived the other day and I’ve enjoyed most of all this particular essay. I commend it to your attention. As the abstract notes
Bathsheba’s actions in 2 Sam. 11.2-4 identify crucial aspects of her character. Past commentators interpret these words in connection with menstrual purification, stressing the certain paternity of David’s adulterine child. This article demonstrates that the participles roheset and mitqaddesset and the noun mittum’atah do not denote menstrual cleansing. Bathsheba’s washing is an innocent bath. She is the only individual human to self-sanctify, placing her in the company of the Israelite deity. The syntax of the verse necessitates that her action of self-sanctifying occurs simultaneously as David lies with her. The three focal terms highlight the important legitimacy of Bathsheba before the Israelite deity, her identity as a non-Israelite, her role as queen mother of the Solomonic line, and her full participation in the narrative.
The essay is titled The Sanctified ‘Adulteress’ and her Circumstantial Clause: Bathsheba’s Bath and Self-Consecration in 2 Samuel 11.
If you’ve never seen Crash, you owe it to yourself to go buy the DVD or rent it or watch it when it’s on tv (like it is at this very moment). It’s the most intelligent movie ever made.
The Associated Press has a brilliant reminder that one nation’s joy is another nation’s sorrow.
Mohammed Shaikha was 9 when the carefree rhythm of his village childhood — going to third grade, picking olives, playing hide-and-seek — was abruptly cut short. Uprooted during the 1948 war over Israel’s creation, he’s now a wrinkled old man. He has spent a lifetime in this cramped refugee camp, and Israel’s 60th independence day, to be celebrated with fanfare on May 8, fills him with pain. “For 60 years, Israel has been sitting on my heart. It kicked me out of my home, my nation, and deprived me of many things,” he said. And each Israeli birthday makes it harder for 70-year-old Shaikha and his elderly gin rummy partners in the camp’s coffee house to cling to dreams of going back to Beit Nabala, one village among hundreds leveled to make way for the influx of Jewish immigrants into the newborn Jewish state.
We Christian folk are as obliged to care for the plight of the Palestinians as we are the plight of the Sudanese or the victims of Katrina or the survivors of the Typhoons. Israel certainly has the right to exist as a nation. And so does Palestine.
Prof. F. García Martínez, professor of Religion and Literature of Early Judaism and Director of the Qumran Institute, has been made a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. García Martínez will receive his decoration during an international congress in honour of his retirement to be held in Groningen on 28 and 29 April 2008. The presentation, by Frank de Vries, Deputy Mayor of the municipality of Groningen, will take place on 29 April 2008 at 5 p.m. in the Aula of the Academy Building.
Via Jim Davila. I join with all those others who congratulate Professor Garcia Matinez on this incredible honor.
A friend emailed this- I think it fairly well done.
SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2007
Scenario : Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbors’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school .
1957 – Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario : Pedro fails high school English.
1957 – Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 – Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1957 – Ants die.
2007 – BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy .
With this. I would only add two things in clarification. First, failing to love God with one’s whole mind is just as big a sin as failing to love God with one’s whole soul. And second, there is a grand difference between intellect rightly used and understood and the idolatrous worship of reason which Luther so astutely condemns. When human intellect is exalted to deity, idolatry is at hand.
Till the 29th Biblical Studies Carnival. Last call for submissions.
