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The new five statement bible summary meme

November 24, 2009

Summarising is a mug’s game, or possibly a meme. After my attack on Packer’s summary of the New Testament yesterday, David Ker suggested that summarising the message might make a good meme. So, allowing for creative adaptation of the rules, here’s a go at some rules for a new meme.
Summarise the Bible in five statements, [...]

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The memorable musical moments meme

November 20, 2009

Sam Norton has tagged me with this meme. I’ll be up front about saying I’d thought find this really difficult. I’m not that musical a person – I’m best described as “eclectic, but I know what I like”. It turned out to be easier than I expected.
These are the rules:
Think of eight memorable musical moments, [...]

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The Deeply De-Christian Doctrine meme

November 4, 2009

I’ve been tagged by David Keen with a rather good, if provocative meme.
List 5 doctrines that are taught within the Christian church that you believe to be deeply de-Christian.
There’s clearly some flexibility on the word “doctrine” here, to include some actual practices with ideological or theological implications. I shall try also to broaden my scope [...]

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One book to rule them all – John Anderson’s non meme

September 17, 2009

Earlier this week John Anderson asked the very difficult question:

What ONE book has most shaped your perspective on the Bible and why?

Indeed, it was so difficult I was avoiding answering it, because every time I thought of one book, I was all Vicky Pollard about it (For all you non Little Britain watchers – “Yeah [...]

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What’s yours? The new random beliefs meme

September 13, 2009

This idea started when I discovered my catholicity was being discussed by Peter Kirk. I would certainly not complain about his description of me. However, I increasingly try to avoid classifying myself… no doubt part of that same personality quirk that makes me obdurate about displaying badges.
But I guess many of us don’t want to [...]

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Most influential women bible scholars meme

September 4, 2009

I’m going to pick up Mike Kok’s new meme on the top 5 most influential female biblical scholars.

Since this is a list of those who have influenced me the most, I shall begin with someone who had bridged the NT / early church fields: Frances Young, who supervised my MPhil dissertation.
I have always found Morna [...]

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James McGrath’s twisted (s)crap meme

August 23, 2009

Oh those twisted and weird liberal minds! James McGrath has cackled evilly and brought forth a bastardly meme: the (mostly dis)honest (s)crap meme. Worse still, he has tagged me with it. Why on earth did Daniel and Tonya join in without even waiting to be tagged?
These are the rules:

You post five things about yourself. Four [...]

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Being a complete orphan and other things about me: the honest scrap meme

August 11, 2009
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Oh, dear. A few days ago I was tagged for a meme by Peter Kirk: the Honest Scrap meme, wherein I’m supposed to tell you ten HONEST things about myself, and then tag seven others of you.
I was going to decline this invitation, because I can’t think of many things more boring than talking about [...]

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The five primary sources meme: my take

July 8, 2009

Ken Brown has tagged me with the Kevin Scull variation of his original five books meme. (Thanks, Ken.) The rules are:
1.) List the 5 primary sources that have most affected your scholarship, thoughts about antiquity, and/or understanding of the NT/OT.
2.) Books from the Bible are off limits unless you really want to list one, I [...]

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My intellectual bibliography: the five influential books meme

June 18, 2009

John Hobbins has tagged me with Ken Brown’s “five books that influenced me” meme. This is not easy. First. here’s a reminder of his rules:

Name the five books (or scholars) that had the most immediate and lasting influence on how you read the Bible. Note that these need not be your five favorite books, or [...]

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