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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…
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Re-struck by How Little Christmas Material is in the Bible
Today’s New Testament lectionary reading should look familiar. That’s because it is made up of the lectionary readings from 12/17 and 12/18. As I noticed that, it made me think of just how little Christmas material there is to choose from when developing the lectionary for this season. There’s none in Mark or John. And,…