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Commercial for God – Doctrine of Retribution Abused (VFTTB)
I just finished teaching through the Book of Proverbs in my Wisdom Literature class and thought I’d share this video. It is exactly what the title of the post says a “commercial for God.” Basically, these two girls read Proverbs 3:9-10 verbatim. Just be careful because it might give you a sickening feel in your…
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John Hobbins just threw out an interesting set of posts
I mean he was throwing them out one after another, and I’m not sure if he’s stopped yet. They are posts that he’s giving the heading: An outline of a 90 minute module in a course entitled “The Bible and Current Events.” Follow the links and you pretty much have it. I’m not sure of…
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Pope Pius XII on the Importance of Textual Criticism
I’ve posted on textual criticism for the past two days. This will probably be the last post on the topic for a while. Yesterday, I posted on video I used in attempting to show my students the importance of textual criticism. I also used this quote from Pope Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu to…
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The song that might not be or the importance of textual criticism – (VFTTB)
In my Wisdom Literature class, I’m taking the approach of tradition history. We are trying to look at this corpus through each stage of development. We started with textual criticism. At any rate, I can’t find the exact video I used, but this one will do. To illustrate the importance of textual criticism, I told…
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Interesting text criticial issues in Wisdom Literature
A while back I posted asking if anyone knew of interesting text critical issues in the Wisdom Literature that I could use in my class. I got no response other than Tim being surprised at how text critically inept we must be. At any rate, here are some of the texts that I ended up…
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A great new book on Inspiration
Yesterday I went to the library at Notre Dame Seminary after class and saw Denis Farkasfalvy’s book Inspiration and Interpretation: A Theological Introduction on Sacred Scripture on the cart of new arrivals. I checked it out and pretty well couldn’t put it down. Farkasfalvy covers some of the same ground that Peter Enns does in…
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Audio Sample from “Living in Exile” Added
I’ve added an audio sample from a talk I gave called “Living in Exile.” It was a part of a series of Lenten reflections. Check it out HERE.
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Audio Sample from “Spiraling Downward”
I have uploaded an audio sample from a talk that I gave called “Spiraling Downward.” This was a talk given during a series of Lenten reflections. Check it out HERE.
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Audio Samples from “Wandering in the Wilderness”
I have uploaded to audio samples from a talk I gave called “Wandering in the Wilderness” to my audio page. This talk was given during a series of Lenten reflections. Check them out HERE.
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Welcome to my website!
My name is Jeremy Thompson, and I recently successfully defended my dissertation for a PhD in Biblical Languages through the University of Stellenbosch. I have taught courses on the Old Testament at several universities in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas, including Notre Dame Seminary, St. Joseph’s Abbey and Seminary College and Loyola University. …