2009 May | punctuated life

Biblical Studies Blunder

I have decided to knock off Fail Blog and start my own Biblical Studies Blunder (BSB) postings (hopefully there will be no lawsuits pending). It has the same concept as the Fail Blog, but the blunders are related to the wacky world of biblical studies.

***Please feel free to submit to me some Blunders to post!*** [...]

new blog: Pop Classics

Rogueclassicism draws attention to a new Classics blog, Pop Classics, by Juliette Harrisson, a final year PhD student studying Classics at the University of Birmingham. She describes her blog “my (hopefully witty and entertaining) random thoughts on appearances of Greek and Roman stuff in popular culture”. So if you are interested in the reception of [...]

The Miracle Maker: at Hulu

Today, I noticed that the Jesus film, The Miracle Maker (2000), is available to view in FULL at hulu.com. This is great! I recommend this film. The video file is in pretty good quality.

Although it employs claymation and is aimed more towards children, it provides a good filmic rendition of the Jesus story. Also, the film [...]

Kirk: Cruciform Ethics and Evil Done in Jesus’ Name

In light of some of my recent thoughts and posts relating to “cruciform” ethics – especially in view of a Christian posture towards torture and violence (e.g. here, here, and perhaps also here) – I’d like to point out that at Sibboleth Daniel Kirk offers a thoughtful post on “Cruciform Ethics and Evil Done in [...]

St. Paul the Pacifist: A Christian Response to Torture

Happy Memorial Day.
I am a veteran of the US Marine Corps and have pretty much become a pacifist. So to celebrate the holiday, I would like to draw your attention to my short article on Paul and torture just published at Religion Dispatches, an online magazine dedicated to the analysis of religion and culture/politics. Click [...]

Bible in America’s Holy Crusade

Recently GQ magazine posted a series of cover sheets used on classified Department of Defense daily intelligence reports, delivered by Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense) to President Bush, from March and April 2003. (article) (images).
These cover sheets show the misuse of biblical texts as captions on military photos, possibly to sanction such military activities. [...]

Fuller’s new library

Fuller Theological Seminary’s new David Allan Hubbard Library (Pasadena campus) is featured in the Los Angeles Times Religion section.

scholarly details on Codex Gigas (the Devil’s Bible)

For more scholarly details about Codex Gigas (the Devil’s Bible), see the the Codex Gigas website at the National Library of Sweden (here). Lots of information here. You can even browse the manuscript (here).
A snippet from the website:
About the Codex Gigas

The Codex Gigas contains five long texts as well as a complete Bible. The manuscript begins [...]

Fowl’s Theological Interpretation of Scripture

Over at Christian Theology and the Bible there is an eight-part series of excerpts from Stephen Fowl’s forthcoming volume, Theological Interpretation of Scripture, in the Cascade Companion series (Cascade Books; summer 2009).
Looks like it will be a good and worthwhile introduction to this emerging research trend in biblical/theological studies. Michael Gorman’s volume, Reading Paul, in [...]

Obama nominates Jesus for Supreme Court; GOP oppose

Obama nominates Jesus Christ for Supreme Court;
GOP concerned about Savior’s “troubling Middle Eastern ties.”

HT: Religion Dispatches

latte animals

Next time you order a latte ask for this.
A barista challenged himself to pour as many different animal images in any coffee/hot cocoa drink that came his way during the last 20 minutes of business.
I hope people gave good tips to this latte artist.

thanks for that earthquake, Jesus

We just had a 4.7–5.0 earthquake in Los Angeles (by the South Bay). I happened to come across this photo recently. Naughty and not nice…

[POLL] Which introductory Greek grammar do you prefer?

Which introductory Greek grammar do you prefer? (Please vote in the poll below.)
I know Mark Goodacre once took a similar poll on his blog, but that was almost two years ago. So I would like to try it again. For my poll I only list what seems to be the four leading options of grammars [...]

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