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Around the Blogosphere (12/19)
I awoke to a number of interesting posts this morning. They were on a variety of themes, so I couldn’t call this a round up. But, here are a few that I read this morning that were posted either last night or early today: Jesus Kills Santa (via Joel Watts) I Just Don’t Understand This…
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Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock App Could be Life-Changing
I was a bit surprised when my former college roommate told me that there was an app for the iPhone that would be worth the price of the phone even if it was the only app available. He proceeded to tell me about the Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock app (developer site HERE). Now a bit…
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Endogamy and Exogamy
Today was the first time that the dictionary on my Kindle came in handy. I was reading Niditch’s War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence and came across the words “endogamy” and “exogamy.” Should have been able to figure those out based on prefixes and root, but it was early. …
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Testing the WordPress App on my iPhone
This seems like a pretty interesting app that would let me blog from just about anywhere. Not much fun for typing long posts, but seems like it would be cool for photo posts and such. Hope it works. Here goes…
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New Testament Reading from Matthew 1.18-25
Today’s New Testament lectionary reading is from Matthew 1.18-25. Two of the resources that I linked to yesterday not only deal with verses 1-17, but also with verse 19-25 of chapter 1. So, if you missed those resources yesterday and are interested be sure to check them out.
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An Utter Aberration
Head over James McGrath’s blog if you want to read one of the most aberrant statements ever written in the English language.
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Jim West's Endorsement of Lawrence Schiffman
It’s nice to see Jim West endorsing Lawrence Schiffman, his exact words being “He’s awesome.” I have used two of Schiffman’s audio courses before from the Modern Scholar Series, The Hebrew Bible and The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique. However, I had heard about issues concerning Schiffman (a charge of plagiarism, or…
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Niditch – Ban as Sacrifice versus the Ban as God's Justice
It is not easy for humans to kill others. To participate in mass killing in war is destructive of individual psyches and of the larger community’s mental health. The ban in either trajectory is a means of making killing in war acceptable. How does the ban as sacrifice and the ban as God’s justice differ…
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Resources on Matthew's Geneaology (Mat. 1)
Today’s New Testament reading is the geneaology of Jesus in Matthew. Thankfully, I do not need to write much about this as I fear the New Testament scholars might have a field day with me. (In seminary, I learned something about possible gematria in the passage, something about the theories of why these women are…
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Just Jinjer "What He Means" – More God in Music
While I’m at it, I heard this song on the radio the other day. A lot God talk. I think people will resonate with most of it, except some perhaps might not like the “more tolerance” (because the the band may be using a different definition of the word “tolerance” than you prefer … very…