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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Of the Writing of Syllabi There Is No End
There are only so many ways of slicing up the New Testament for ease of consumption by college freshmen. I’ve generally done a little bit of context and methodology work at the very beginning, followed by a thematic approach to … Continue reading
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I'm with Her Majesty on This One
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The Customer is Not Always Right
If you’re looking for a little Friday fun and/or suffering from feelings of inadequacy, allow me to recommend Not Always Right. It’s the place to go for funny and stupid customer quotes, such as Stupidity Bytes, Health Care(less), and my … Continue reading
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Bad Writing and Bad Thinking
Rachel Toor is my new hero, and the link to her article on the pitfalls of academic writing is going in my syllabus next fall: By writing prose that is nearly unintelligible not just to the general public, but also … Continue reading
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An Offensive Image of Muhammad
I have never watched an episode of South Park. The snippets I’ve seen over the years suggest it’s not my kind of humor, and I’m too old to pretend to be hip and trendy. As I understand it, South Park … Continue reading
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Good Samaritans
Fascinating article about modern-day Samaritans by Benjamin Balint. (H/T: PaleoJudaica) Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend
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An Offensive Image of the Virgin Mary
From the little I’ve read, I’m not 100% sure Chris Ofili was trying to cause offense with his 1996 collage, “Holy Virgin Mary.” At the very least, some have attempted to defend this work, which depicts the Mother of Jesus … Continue reading
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An Offensive Image of Jews
In 2006, Moroccan Abdollah Derkaoui won first place at Iran’s Holocaust cartoon exhibition. Entrants from Brazil and France tied for second. The exhibit was an attempt at responding to cartoons of Muhammad published the previous year in a Danish newspaper. … Continue reading
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An Offensive Image of Christ
This early second-century graffito may be the oldest known artistic representation of Jesus Christ. It was discovered in Rome 150 years ago. It depicts someone standing before a crucified man with the head of an ass. The crude Greek scrawl … Continue reading
Second-Temple Sabbatical Years: Beginning Again (in Fits and Starts)
The attested sabbatical years in the Second-Temple Period don’t line up with scholars’ best guesses of when sabbatical and Jubilee years fell in the pre-exilic period. The second-century Seder Olam Rabbah explains why this is so: since the Jews were … Continue reading
