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June 2017

June 16, 2017

Ecclesiastes, Just Sayin’

Steve Wiggins shared the above meme featuring a quote from the Bible, an image, and...

June 12, 2017

Joel Baden on the Bible and Immigration

A lecture by Joel Baden, drawn to my attention by Biblical Studies Online. In an...

June 11, 2017

The Green Pastures

When I mentioned in my course on the Bible and music that one of my...

June 09, 2017

DisembARKment

A friend shared the above quote on Facebook, which seems to have circulated anonymously for...

June 07, 2017

Religious Imagery in Wall-E

Reddit is exactly the kind of place where one would expect a discussion to take place about...

June 06, 2017

World Refugee Day Dinner

The Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis Refugee and Immigrant Services organization is hosting a World Refugee...

June 05, 2017

May 2017 Biblical Studies Carnival

Thanks to Jeff Carter for hosting the latest Biblical Studies Carnival - and apologies for...

June 03, 2017

PAVONe

Via NASCAS I learned of the following web resource: I am pleased to inform you...

June 01, 2017

The Creation “Museum” vs. the Bible

Ben Stanhope drew the above photo of a display at the Creation Museum to my attention....

May 2017

May 31, 2017

The Bible is Getting More Loving

The bible is getting more loving as time goes on. Here is the number of...

May 27, 2017

The Poor You Will Always Have With You

Liz Theoharis writes: Keeping in mind these emphases of Deuter­onomy, we can grasp the liberative...

May 25, 2017

NIV Faithlife Study Bible

I was supposed to join in a blog tour about the new NIV Faithlife Study...

May 24, 2017

Defamation of Character in Biblical Interpretation

Kerry Connelly wrote in a recent blog post about a commentary on the story about...

May 23, 2017

Not What I Planted

This cartoon by David Hayward seems like a suitable updating of the parable of the...

May 21, 2017

Scholars Love The Bible

Something I said a while back has been turned into a meme and begun to...

May 20, 2017

Not In The Spaces We Know

A special issue of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, exploring the intersection of the Hebrew...

May 19, 2017

Review of Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity

The review I wrote of Nina Henrichs Tarasenkova's book Luke's Christology of Divine Identity has just been...

May 19, 2017

Why Canon the Card Game is Necessary

A recent post on the blog "History for Atheists" (which critiqued the meme above) highlights the...

May 15, 2017

Fond of Quoting Leviticus

May 11, 2017

Steve Reich, Tehillim

Indiana University has an interesting archive featuring Steve Reich's exploration of the Psalms. And the...

May 02, 2017

Michael Kiefer, Psalm 22

The composer wrote the piece after experiencing the death of his child.

May 01, 2017

The Residents – Wormwood

Perhaps the most unusual example of Biblically-themed music that I have come across in my...

April 2017

April 23, 2017

Thomas Paraphrased

Chris Tilling shared his own translation of John 20:25: And Thomas said unto them, "Pics...

April 20, 2017

Targum Jonathan and Mythicism

I have explained before on numerous occasions the problems which the proclamation of Jesus as...

April 18, 2017

Mr. g

Last night I had the opportunity to attend a dramatic reading of the play "Mr....

April 17, 2017

United Ark-Lines

Did dinosaurs and unicorns get dragged from their seats?

April 14, 2017

Mutant in the Armor of God

From TheologyGrams

April 12, 2017

Worst Navigator Ever?

This is an old joke, and not a particularly funny one, since it misses the...

April 08, 2017

John and the Synoptics

Elizabeth Corsar blogged about the fact that the relationship between the Gospel of John and...

April 07, 2017

An Article Conceived on this Blog is Born!

About a year ago, I floated an idea in a blog post, something that had struck...

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