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Claude Mariottini on Roman Catholic Womenpriests
Dr. Claude Mariottini has recently linked to an interesting article on Roman Catholic Womenpriests. Go over to his blog to check it out. But, also to add a bit to the discussion, lay people are often somewhat surprised when I inform them that women were allowed to take the Nazirite vow in the Old Testament. …
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Psalm 72 – The King Worthy of Homage
I wrote yesterday about how the lectionary obliterated a bit of beautiful imagery. It doesn’t do a great job with today’s response either, which is the middle-latter portion of Psalm 72. The focus of this part of the Psalm is upon the king who is worthy of homage and dominion in verses 8-11. Psalm 72:8-11…
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Kill Them All – Man, Woman & Child … But, Not Really
Okay, I’m being a little facetious with the title to this post. But, it’s so hard to write good title lines without doing that from time to time. At any rate, Matt over at MandM has recently written on the “commands to commit genocide” in the Book of Joshua. One matter he brings up is…
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Psalm 72 – Shame on the Lectionary
Psalm 72 is the responsorial for today and the lectionary successfully obliterates the imagery of verses 6 and 7. Here’s how the lectionary reading looks online. Psalm 72 in the Lectionary Responsorial Psalm 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8 R. (see 11) Lord, every nation on earth will adore you. O God, with your judgment endow the king,…
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John Hobbins' Invisible Fence?
John Hobbins has written a post in response to Joseph Kelly’s three part (so far?) series on inerrancy. Frankly, it seems to me a bit like John is sitting (quite perturbed I might add) on an invisible fence. I certainly get the point, and agree, that in/errancy should not be in the forefront of our…
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Psalm 72:10 – Tarshish Again
Last week I wrote a learner centered blog post on the significance of Jonah fleeing to Tarshish. And, Tarshish shows up again in today’s responsive reading. To understand the symbolism of gifts coming from there, try out the “activity” from the first part of the previous post using the maps. Then, consider the text. Psalm…
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Visuals for Biblical Books
Stephen Smuts has linked to some very cool looking Bible word clouds. Though I think that some of this may be translation dependent and some of it perhaps a little misleading to a somewhat uninformed person (e.g. “father” in Genesis is probably not talking about God as a father), I still think that do give…
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Why Did Jonah Flee to Tarshish? (Learner-Centered)
A while back I wrote a post answering the question of why Jonah fled to Tarshish (if you’re a more advanced reader you probably would not have learned anything). Yesterday, however, I started to think about what it would mean to take a more learner-centered approach to my blogging. And, I thought a re-write of…
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Learner-Centered Blogging?
I don’t know why, but I was thinking through David Clines’ SBL Presidential Address on learner-centered instruction again today. I can remember thinking it was a good address, but having done research in pedagogy, I don’t remember feeling like I had learned much new. Yet I was thinking about the address today in the context…
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The Contrast Between Judges and Samuel on Kingship
I was re-struck this morning as I was reading in the Book of 1 Samuel by the contrast between some of the views of kingship in it and in the Book of Judges. The books of Samuel are certainly not a monolith on this topic, however, since there are positive views of kingship found therein. …