Thursday, January 03, 2008

A Little GKC

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It's a pity that G. K. Chesterton lived, by and large, before the electronic media became widespread. As the video (mainly audio) shows,...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Fourth Annual Ralphies

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Ah, the Ralphies. This year, for me, has been a year of retrenchment, retreat, and hunkering down to work, and I don't feel that I'v...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Satan, Romney, and 2008

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An election is coming up — so they tell me — in 2008. And that can mean only one thing: Total boredom for the next 12 months . Yes, politics...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Home again (2)

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After the SBL conference in San Diego, I flew up to the Bay Area to visit my daughter Liz and her husband Brian. It was a delight to see the...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig (Part I)

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My, what a busy week. Friday I arrived in San Diego for the SBL meeting, and attended (briefly) the Accordance seminar that night, much the...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Lawrence and Lewis

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Last week I watched, over the course of several nights, Lawrence of Arabia (1962). They just don't make movies like that anymore. I don...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

O Reader, If Thou Needest a Laugh

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Readers who need a good laugh are encouraged to read Alan Jacobs' review of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works .
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Busybusybusy

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Sorry I haven't been blogging much. I know you all (all three of you) have been anxiously waiting for more new wisdom. But I've been...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Halpern and the Beerothites

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I've been reading, with great enjoyment, Baruch Halpern's David's Secret Demons . There is much of value in the book, as well as...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Heimgehen

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Blogger Scott Becker has died of cancer. His blog Aufhebung ("Cancellation") has been a moving, and sometimes harrowing, account ...
Monday, September 10, 2007

I (heart) Popery

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The return of Francis Beckwith, president of the Evangelical Theological Society, to Catholicism, happened quite a while back, but still is ...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Voldemort at Qumran?

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In one of the manuscripts of the Vision of Amram (4Q544), the title character has a vision of two angels; one of the angels is good, the ot...
Monday, August 13, 2007

New Targum Location

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Kudos and major props are due to Chris Brady, who is refurbishing and renewing the website of the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studie...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Nebo-Sarsekim (Jer. 39:3)

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In Jeremiah 39:3, several Babylonian officials are named: "Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer the R...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Of Sayers, James, and Bells

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Given that there is such a thing as "comfort food," why shouldn't there also be "comfort books"? Comfort books, as I...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Two Quick Movie Reviews

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Spider-Man 3: Good Pirates of the Caribbean 3: Bad
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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Avudim

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During the run-up to the season finale of Lost (which was terrific, by the way), I was watching (while working) some past episodes availabl...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007

August 1966

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The nightmarish Virginia Tech shootings have reminded me of my own very remote memory of the Charles Whitman shootings from the University ...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

Old Poem

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While cleaning out some papers, I came across a poem I wrote in college (that's back in the seventies, kids) for some class or other. Ma...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

Thoughts about Arni (Luke 3:33)

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As a side-effect of the Talpiot tomb discussion, I've been reading Richard Bauckham's Jude and the Relatives of Jesus , an interesti...
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