Tag Archives: israel
Dr. Michael Bauman’s Reckless Islamophobic Libel, Round 2: Iran
[Update (7 Jan 2012): Both of Bauman's blogs are offline. I don't know what, if anything, this article had to do with it. Either way, perhaps it is for the best.] Over and over, otherwise bright, sane, conservative Christians all over the Internet start foaming at the keyboard the moment Muslims come to mind. This [...]
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One Sons, Three Times: The Peculiar Case of 1 Chronicles 1:31
The first nine chapters of Chronicles contain, in genealogical forms, the entire history of Israel from Adam to the return from the Babylonian exile. To the uninterested reader, these nine chapters may appear like some birth certificates that just got misplaced. Upon closer examination, these nine chapters reveal a wealth of data about the self-image [...]
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Isaiah 6:4-5
See the disclaimer in the last post of this kind. Related Posts:A Translation of Isaiah 6 with NotesIsaiah 6:1-3Eden, the Temple, and birds: a look at Isaiah 31:5Sing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet a little hebrew spelling story
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Deuteronomy 7:22 — Is it synecdoche?
Deuteronomy 7:22 tells us this: And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee little by little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. In one of my Bible classes here at OSU, an instructor suggested that this was the Deuteronomist covering for [...]
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deuterocanonical friday: judith 10
Judith has just prayed for God to help her save Israel by trickery. Related Posts:deuterocanonical friday: judith 11deuterocanonical friday. i mean, monday.deuterocanonical friday: judith 9deuterocanonical friday: judith 8deuterocanonical friday: judith 7
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deuterocanonical friday: judith 4
We find Judith where we left her last: completely unmentioned by a story that is determined to start off by downplaying her and her nation. Israel has already been whomped upon some, and Nebuchadnezzar is gathering his armies: Related Posts:Deuterocanonical Friday: Judith 12deuterocanonical friday: judith 11deuterocanonical friday: judith 10deuterocanonical friday: judith 8deuterocanonical friday: judith 7
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the odd case of kazakhstan: bride-napping and baby-making in an educated society
I’ve been looking at World Bank graphs of the Total Fertility Rates of a variety of countries, and though the specifics vary, they all more or less fit the fertility model that I subscribe to. There is, however, the outlier of Israel, which I discussed previously. But now I’ve found another case: Kazakhstan, I already [...]
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a note on the authorship of joshua
One finds a curious thing in book of Joshua, in chapter 11, verse 21: Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with [...]
Ethnos is an appropriate word for the Church.