Monthly Archives: March 2011

An Evangelical Calvinist Defends Rob Bell

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

I haven’t been obsessing about Rob Bell’s Love Wins. A lot of folks have. They need to read what Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, has to say. If you’re curious, still think that Greg Boyd may be on … Continue reading →

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Complete List of Biblioblog RSS Feeds

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Tim Ricchuiti has become the new best friend of all who follow biblioblogdom by aggregating the RSS feeds for all of the nearly 300 blogs listed at the Biblioblog Top 50 website. I’m speechless. (H/T: Joel Watts) Share this: Digg … Continue reading →

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Do You Speak KJV?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Take this quiz from Joel Hoffman and find out! Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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Must Be Essene to Be Believed!

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Check out DeadSeaScrolls.org. (H/T: Jim Davila) Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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Biblical Studies Carnival Submissions: Last Call

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

The next Biblical Studies Carnival will be posted here next Friday. If you would like to nominate a post (your own or someone else’s) please do so by emailing darrell [at] pursiful [dot] com. Thanks! Share this: Digg this postRecommend … Continue reading →

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I Blinked

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

…and suddenly this beautiful little girl… became this beautiful big girl! Happy birthday, Sweetheart! Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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And Now Some Homeric Poetry (Sort of)

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

I’m away at the Committee on the Uniform Series annual meeting, so of course I’m preoccupied with ancient Greek epic. Here are a couple of music videos to set the proper mood: The story of the Trojan War set to … Continue reading →

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The Creed of Saint Patrick

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

(From Patrick’s Confessio, c. 450) There is no other God, nor ever was, nor will be, than God the Father unbegotten, without beginning, from whom is all beginning, the Lord of the universe, as we have been taught. And His … Continue reading →

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Martin Hengel, Wild-eyed Fundamentalist

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Actually, he was anything but. But I wonder how some may react to this statement of his about unity and diversity in the early church: “Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed” (15:11). … Continue reading →

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Julius Caesar May Have Had a Brain Tumor

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

So say Francois Retief and Johan Cilliers in the South African Medical Journal (100.1, January 2010). Rogueclassicism has the story. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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