From the monthly archives:

August 2009

People and dogs – unbelievable!

August 31, 2009

This morning I passed two little old ladies and a poodle in a little old car. One old lady is driving. The poodle is sitting in the front passenger seat. The other little old lady looks cramped and uncomfortable with hardly any leg room in the back seat – behind the poodle.
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Trust me: I’m an opinion poll

August 30, 2009

How to do an opinion poll – from the best satire the BBC ever made.

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Getting confused over the resurrection

August 30, 2009

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles)
Beyond bare affirmations of faith, where we enter the territory of explanation, it becomes difficult to say anything about the resurrection that will not be controversial. So it’s hardly surprising that I find the language of the fourth article controversial – [...]

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Poetic lions, cardboard bears and a great spoonerism: this week’s link love

August 29, 2009

Some posts from the last week for your reading pleasure.
Mike Aquilina posts a rather delightful and whimsical poem I didn’t know by the wonderful Stevie Smith – Sunt Leones. (“I only write this poem because I thought it rather looked / As if the part the lions played was being overlooked”)
Chris Tilling links to some [...]

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The right Bible (KJV) and the Bible of the Beast (NIV)

August 28, 2009

Claude Mariottini has found a video of a stunningly bad preacher. I don’t know his name, but he’s definitely going in my lists of most stupid and ignorant preachers ever.

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Translating rough texts: making Mark sound a bit less polished

August 28, 2009

John Hobbins has recently offered a “style-sensitive” translation of Luke 1:1-4 – exhibiting a somewhat latinate orotundity and verbosity. In the course of things he reminded me of a now defunct post in which I had essayed a literary translation of Mark’s rough and non-literary text. (Most translations make Mark sound more like literature than [...]

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Waterboarding the Jim West way

August 27, 2009
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Why would anyone use this search string?

August 27, 2009

“when I heard the story my initial response”
What story?

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Talk about prejudice and presupposition!

August 27, 2009

Over on Broadcast Depth, Matt has an interview with Andreas Köstenberger. I was gobsmacked by this final exchange. (The emphasis is mine.)

Q. Lastly, if there is one piece of advice you could give to someone entering New Testament scholarship, what would it be?
A. Stay humble, be devoted to your wife and your family, and get [...]

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Hey, help you Paul scholars (and others) out there!

August 27, 2009

Does anyone out there know of any serious post-Sanders attempt to use Paul (and a kind of mirror-reading of him) as a primary source for reconstructing first-century Pharisaism?
I’m aware that would be a risky business and need a very careful methodology. However, it seems to me that, if you are persuaded by Steve Mason’s (inter [...]

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