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Humour in the Bible elsewhere 24 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
If you have been enjoying my series on humour you may be interested in an article at BAR: Laughter in the Bible? Absolutely! I think Branch suffers from the lack of criteria and I’d be less confident...
“Reading the Bible Faithfully” announcement 31 Jul 2013 | 01:41 am
Since we started teaching Understanding and Interpreting the Bible at Carey have every year, as well as giving very favourable feedback, students have said things like “Why don’t they teach us this in...
What DID the text mean? 25 Jul 2013 | 01:13 am
This clay tablet contains a letter from a local ruler in Canaan to Pharaoh (Original in Pergamon Museum, photo by Tim Bulkeley) In our student exegesis assignments we ask them to state the intended m...
Recognising Irony in Gen 3:22 11 Jul 2013 | 08:41 am
Chris Heard at Higgaion a proposal which got me thinking. He suggests (in Divine sarcasm in the Eden story?) that we read God’s statement in Gen 3:22: “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing ...
Humour in the Bible: Book 6 Joshua: Rahab and the bungling spies 27 Jun 2013 | 05:10 am
Don Adams, as Maxwell Smart, holding the famous shoe phone. (Wikipedia) The little story, in Joshua 2, of Rahab and the clueless pair of young Israelite would be spies, provided Spenser1 (see Signs ...
Is hell an important Christian doctrine? Part 1: Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 4 Jun 2013 | 07:17 am
People like “old time religion”, “Give them more hellfire and damnation pastor!” the elders plead (somehow it is always “them” not “us” in this case), churches were full when preachers really put the ...
Reading the Bible Faithfully 28 May 2013 | 11:58 pm
Before we look at how we can better read Scripture faithfully we need to ask what -reading the Bible faithfully means. There are implications both for how and why we read. Later podcasts will tackle t...
Atheists, Fundamentalists and the Bible: Using Scripture 23 May 2013 | 10:54 am
I’ve been puzzled and frustrated recently in several conversations by the way in which both some Fundamentalists and some Atheists seem to (mis)use Scripture in similar ways. This is the first of a se...
Humour in the Bible: Book 5 Deuteronomy 22 May 2013 | 04:11 am
This podcast, suggesting a gentle wry smile in Dt 1:6 was inspired by a blog post from Rabbi Michal Shekelk1nsh2s2 “Could it be possible to stay too long at the site of Revelation?” There are also quo...
Complaints: Part Three: a clue in Jeremiah 16 May 2013 | 02:54 am
There are a number of passages in the prophets, and especially in Jeremiah that are like the complaint (lament) psalms. In Jeremiah the passages known as “the confessions of Jeremiah” are particularly...
