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Giant New Biblioblog!
Or rather, a new biblioblog devoted to giants: Goliath, the Nephilim, the Anakim, etc. Check out Remnant of Giants, a new (and admittedly arcane) project from Religion Bulletin’s Deane Galbraith. By the way, my recent reading about Israel’s “cult of … Continue reading
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Wise Women 4: Mourners
Singers of Dirges In addition to presiding over births, a wise woman may also have a role at the liminal time of a death in the community. This is also a role with broad cultural currency in the ancient world. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Deuteronomy, Genesis, Jeremiah
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Wise Women 3: Midwives
Medical Practitioners At the end of my previous post I suggested that wise women (in the Ancient Near East generally and in Israel in particular) often performed their services on occasions marked by liminality, the betwixt-and-between of important life passages. … Continue reading
Wise Women 2: Mediators
Authority Israel’s wise women held authority. The very use of the title “wise woman” without any further identifying comment in 2 Samuel 14 and 20 suggests that this was a familiar role at least to the original hearers of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Judges, Numbers, Talmud
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Wise Women 1: Mothers in Israel
Wise women played socially important roles in virtually every ancient culture. In Rome, ten Sybils—prophetesses—are mentioned by name in the prologue to the Sybilline Oracles. Oliver Gurney notes at least thirteen (perhaps as many as thirty-two) of these women by … Continue reading
Ancient Calendars 3: Canaan
The Canaanites lived in the land between Egypt and Mesopotamia, and at various points in their history their calendar adopted the features of both major cultural regions. In this post I’ll examine the calendars of Canaan, including calendar(s) of the … Continue reading
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Jews Were Still Using the Septuagint in Medieval Cairo
Professor Nicholas de Lange and other experts and Cambridge University have discovered evidence that the Jews of Cairo were familiar with the Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the Jewish Bible long thought to have fallen out of use among … Continue reading
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The Psalms for Personal Devotion
Chuck Huckaby discusses several resources for incorporating the Psalms into one’s daily devotions, with emphasis is on the metrical psalmody of the Genevan Psalter. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this … Continue reading
The Universe according to Genesis 1
Robin Parry summarizes three papers on Genesis 1 by Paul H. Seely appearing in the Westminster Theological Journal in the early 1990s. According to Parry, Seely comes from a Reformed evangelical background but, in these articles, he is reacting against … Continue reading
Armageddon and Near Eastern Chronology
A new archeological project is attempting to synchronize ancient chronology by relying on the twenty-nine destruction layers at Megiddo, which span the entire history of the region from 3000 to 300 BC. Megiddo is the only place in the world … Continue reading
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