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In which Doug calls me a wide-eyed idealist …

November 28, 2013
A lot to be thankful for

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I know I certainly have a great deal to be thankful for.

November 28, 2013
“Analogy” vs. “metaphor”

In one of the SBL sessions I attended this week, one of the papers led to questions about whether it was meaningful to switch from using the word “metaphor” to using “analogy.” In other words, is there a distinction between?: The psalmist uses the metaphor ”the Lord is my rock.” The psalmist uses the analogy ”the Lord is my…

November 27, 2013
Hobbes on metaphor #fail

Came across this massive fail by Hobbes to rage against metaphor in Hofstadter and Sander’s Surfaces and Essences and thought it interesting: To conclude, the light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; reason is the pace; increase of science, the way; and the benefit of mankind, the…

August 8, 2013
Python to save your soul

In a previous post, I showed you how Python can let you print important things over and over again. Here I’m posting a video that just might save your soul with the code for the quiz at the bottom of the post: from random import randint import sys questions = {1 : [“Joel is a…

July 4, 2013
Audio from talk on Old Testament violence at Holy Ghost

For those who were interested, below is a link to the audio from my talk on violence in the Old Testament this past Monday at Holy Ghost. It’s very echo-y since it was in the parish hall and the train passed twice, but you should be able to hear it okay. Old Testament Violence (right-click/ctrl-click…

June 29, 2013
Reason #1 learning some programming can be helpful …

You can print important things over and over again. Thinking this might come in handy with some of my Twitter conversations at some point.

June 11, 2013
Buying Joel’s Book = Sacrifice to Goat Demons: A Pesher for Today

I was annotating Leviticus today, and the meaning of 17:7 was readily apparent. Once you understand that Joel in his multiple personalities = the goat demons, you are on your way to understanding the text: So they (people who have recently bought a book on mimetic criticism and the Gospel of Mark) shall no more…

February 26, 2013
That’s Deep, Deep

Sometimes repetition of a word has an intensifying effect. We have examples of this in English: 1. (Me to my kids sometimes): If you don’t start acting right, we’re going to have a big, big problem. 2. The pope has resigned. It’s a sad, sad day. I recently came across my favorite example of this…

February 11, 2013
Sitting, Dwelling and the Unworthiness of the Messenger

There is a thread that runs through all of the lectionary readings for today. We see in Isaiah, Paul in 1 Corinthians and Peter in the Gospel reading the unworthiness of the messenger. This is evident in any number of ways in Isaiah 6, but one of the aspects of the reading I noticed is…

February 10, 2013

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