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Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Bible

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0004, 20th April, 2011
It was John Hobbins’ posts that first made me aware of the idea of functional canonicity. That is, regardless of what a group says is their canon, more practically important is what they use as canonical. In this sense, we could say that the Apostles’ Creed is canonical for most Christians. We could say that [...]
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whence the philistines?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1727, 15th September, 2010
It’s an interesting question.  At least I see it so.  To what place in the genealogies of the Bible are the Philistines assigned?  Recently I’ve been trying to memorize details from the Table of Nations, so the first place to go for understanding the biblical derivation of ethnic groups is Genesis 10:13-14: And Mizraim (Egypt) [...]
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social justice in the book of amos

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2213, 9th March, 2010
Lately myself and Joel have been talking a bit (here and here) through the issues of economic justice, and whether good economic policies are more socialist or capitalist.  Needless to say, I fall more on the capitalistic end of the spectrum, while Joel is more socialistic in his views.  In order to give the Bible [...]
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