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Are You a Scholar or Merely an Intellectual?
From The Gorgomons (via Pseudo-Polymath): Confucius is not an intellectual. Confucius is a scholar. Scholars dig through dusty tomes to find things like the recipe for the Liao Drug, and if they have an ounce of self-awareness, realize their expertise … Continue reading
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Greek Alphabet Song
The poet Kallias wrote a Greek alphabet song in the fifth century BC. I discovered several years ago that it can be sung to the hymn tune CLONMEL, which Baptists may know as the tune to “We Praise You with … Continue reading
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Drive-by Summary of Zoroastrianism
The religion of ancient Persia influenced the development of early Judaism, although the degree of influence is more subject to debate that this article on Comment Is Free lets on. It would be uncontroversial, however, to suggest that the emerging … Continue reading
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Do Rabbis Dream of Proleptic Sheep?
Via Jim Davila, word of an interesting new thesis from the University of Gothenburg: Erik Alvstad, “Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity.” “The rabbis interpreted dreams using the same … Continue reading
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Names in Genesis 1–11
Interesting article about the personal names in the opening chapters of Genesis by Richard S. Hess over at The Bible and Interpretation. I wish I knew more about onomastics than I do. The Medieval Names Archive does a fantastic job … Continue reading
Happy Chanukkah!
When this post by Barry Strauss showed up in my feed reader, I wondered what in the world a classical historian who has written about the Trojan War, the Battle of Salamis, and Spartacus’s slave revolt might have to say … Continue reading
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How "African" Was Ancient Egyptian Spirituality? 2
Life offline has kept me from finishing pondering the “African”-ness of ancient Egyptian spirituality for over a month. At last I’m back at it. As with all of my posts on African culture and spirituality, my objective is merely to … Continue reading
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Brain Research Lends Support to Paul, Rabbis, Freud, and…Spock?
Ken Schenck gives a blurb about How God Changes Your Brain, a new book about brain research that a group on his campus is discussing. I’m just dropping in on the group today; I haven’t read the whole book. But … Continue reading
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Fall Break!
As usual, I’ll be celebrating Mercer’s fall break by editing Sunday school lessons. While I do so, here is a thought for the day about higher education from Camile Paglia: Judging by the increasingly limited cultural and factual knowledge of … Continue reading
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How "African" Was Ancient Egyptian Spirituality? 1
In this post and the next I want to examine the religiosity of ancient Egypt in order to see to what extent it may reflect the world view discernible in much later cultures of sub-Saharan Africa. Christians and Africa In … Continue reading
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