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July 2020

July 28, 2020

Vspph, Vphdph, Vphcph

Meredith Warren shared the meme above on Facebook and it inspired this blog post. Apparently...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

A Call for Compositions Setting Biblical Texts #CFP

Bob MacDonald is launching a project to turn the melodies that emerge from the text...

April 2020

April 18, 2020

Keep Up Your Biblical Aramaic and/or Hebrew in Two Minutes a Day

If the pandemic's isolation of us all persists for another three years, you'll be happy...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

Learning by Listening

I have been benefiting from audiobooks to no end, and I have been podcasting more...

December 2018

December 18, 2018

Hebrew Matthew and Hebrew Josephus

I was reminded a while back (actually, looking at when I first wrote a draft...

March 2018

March 01, 2018

Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories

Anyone who has learned a language has worked with vocabulary lists. Sometimes these are provided...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

5 Easy Steps to Reading the Bible Literally

I've shared a number of these kinds of memes and infographics before, and so I...

October 2017

October 21, 2017

Paul Stanhope

I discovered Paul Stanhope's music through the Naxos Music Database, which introduced me to his...

June 2017

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 25, 2017

NIV Faithlife Study Bible

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

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 11, 2017

Steve Reich, Tehillim

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

March 2017

March 04, 2017

Ancient Hebrew Cosmology

Ben Stanhope shared the following image he made depicting how ancient Hebrews understood their physical...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

A Paulish Mistake in the Mandaean Book of John?

Charles Häberl has started blogging again recently, about the Mandaean Book of John and related texts,...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Not in the Spaces We Know: An Exploration of Science Fiction and the Bible

Frauke Uhlenbruch organized and edited an issue of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures which explores intersections...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

Early High Subordinationist Christology around the Blogosphere

Let me start this round-up of recent blogging about Christology with a quote from a...

October 01, 2016

Dust in the Wind (Ecclesiastes 1:2)

This meme was inspired by a comment left on Facebook, after I shared Robert Holmstedt's...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

A Unique Hat

Joel Willits wore a very striking hat yesterday at the Enoch Seminar. Can you read...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Strong Ability in Biblical Languages

As I sought feedback on the Swahili lyrics of Baba Yetu recently, one of the...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Translating Genesis 19

There has been a significant amount of discussion online in recent days about the way...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

Fundamentalists and Scholarship

I made the same point some years ago in a blog post. But the above...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Bad Hebrew = Free Advertising

There is a blog dedicated to bad Hebrew tattoos. I had apparently neglected it for...

May 05, 2015

Taking KJV-Onlyism As Far As It Can Go

I thought that the view of the King James Version of the Bible that Stuff...

March 2015

March 04, 2015

Infinite Religious Diversity in Infinite Combinations

The cartoon above came to my attention via Kissing Fish on Facebook. It is a...

January 2015

January 03, 2015

Origen on Adam (Corrected)

Ken Brown pointed out that the image I shared misattributed the quotation to the wrong...

January 02, 2015

Origen on Adam

Of related interest, see Jared Calaway's recent blog post about what Origen wrote about animal...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Can You Help Sort Out Columbia’s Students?

Matthew Morgenstern shared the above screenshot on Facebook. I searched online and found that Columbia...

May 2014

May 02, 2014

Hebrew’s 22 Words

How the article made it onto CNN, I have no idea. But they shared some...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Hebrew Cannon

Via George Athas. I haven't seen the distinction between canon and cannon illustrated quite this...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

The Solid Sky

Hector Avalos has a lengthy and detailed post about the solidity of the sky -...

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