From the daily archives:

Monday, November 16, 2009

Conspiring against Tom Wright

November 16, 2009

I’d like to thank Jon Swales for drawing attention to this. He is surprised that Themelios asked John Piper’s executive assistant to review Tom Wright’s robust demolition of Piper’s attack on the New Perspective. He is not surprised that the review is unfavourable.
One may suspect the influence of the general editor, one Don Corleone Carson. [...]

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The friends of Onan

November 16, 2009

Jim West asked the question:

What exactly is the Institute for Signifying Scriptures?

As a result Clayboy felt compelled to look for the answer, which he now presents to you in its gloriously obfuscating incomprehensibility.

The Institute for Signifying Scriptures has as its primary purpose the facilitation of transgressive research into the phenomena — practices, representations, ideologies and [...]

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A question about hate

November 16, 2009

After some of the comments here, I have to ask:
Why is it that so many of us are always ready to explain “hate” in the Bible as hyperbole or “semitic idiom”, but when we encounter it in a blog post, assume it must be taken in its most literal, po-faced and unpleasant sense?

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