Tuesday, August 09, 2011

The Help

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I certainly enjoyed reading The Help. It treats a solemn subject with some lightness and humour and I will be attending the movie soon, may...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

On women

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There has been a lot of chatter in the biblioblogosphere on women once more. Amanda has been blogging about female theologians, as well as ...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

John Stott

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Like many others in the bibliosphere, I too heard Stott preach and read his books and mourn his passing. I always looked up to him and felt ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Rod Decker's review of the NIV 2011

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Update: I said that I would comment on the treatment of Romans 16:7 in Decker's review. Above all, I felt that it lacked clarity. What ...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Dan Wallace on 1 Tim. 2:12

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Dan Wallace has finished his four part review of the NIV 2011 . Overall it has been a positive review of the NIV 2011, giving the NIV as a t...
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Night Train to Lisbon

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This Swiss nove l by Pascal Mercier is proving to be my reading highlight of the summer. The main character, a professor in a gymnasium, (a ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Junia, the apostle: Index

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I note that I remain the "go to" person for Junia, an apostle. Here is the index to my posts on the Better Bibles Blog. Here are ...
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The Net Bible notes - full of unpleasant little surprises

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I feel that somehow the clickability of the NET Bible makes it very attractive to some people. I have to admit that it is a lot of fun. But ...
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Homosexual orientation is "deeply sinful" CBMW

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The Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has upped the ante. No longer is homosexuality a pathology to be cured, but rather homosexual...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Dan Wallace compares the NRSV and the ESV

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I am not too sure what to make of this. In part 3 of his series on the NIV 2011, Dr. Wallace compares a list of translations with respect t...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Two posts on gender

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Tonya and Kurk have written fantastic posts about gender and blogging.
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Gobsmacked at Dan Wallace

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I have not yet finished reading this post . HT BBB . (Thank you, Peter, for your own response to this post.) But so far, I am astonished!...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Scriptio Continua

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Early Greek manuscripts were written without word breaks or spaces between the words. This is consistent with writing in many different lang...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Early Christian Literacy

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I attended a lecture by Larry Hurtado at Regent College last night, and enjoyed hearing a lot about early Christian literacy. I only wish I ...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Junia with a moustache

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Kurk has always made blogging so much fun. He writes again about Junia, giving her a moustache, and links to many of my far too long and det...
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top biblioblogger

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The Top 10 Biblioblogs reports that I have been voted number 1! (No artwork, though.) I don't know how to interpret this, since I have ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Luther and my dog

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reflections on my dog dying. In the second chapter of Genesis, the human and the animal are both called nephesh chayah , living beings. In t...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Nephesh

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Bible translation is messy. Life is messy. My dog died. So did Kurk's. Here is Genesis 2:7 and 17. And the LORD God formed man of the du...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

The Sibling Gods

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In this image, we can see clearly that Ptolemy II and Arsinöe II were called 'Siblings.' The Greek word for "siblings" is...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Female beauty matters ...

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This was such an important discussion last month. As if this is what biblical women should really care about. However, I believe my natural ...
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