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Of Spy Narratives and Toyota Manuals 24 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
With a title like Manufacturing Judean Myth: The Spy Narrative in Numbers 13-14 as Rewritten Tradition, you might suspect some dense argumentation akin to an untranslated Japanese car manual. (The al...
From church to shrine 19 Aug 2013 | 12:28 pm
On Sunday I took a drive out to Waiuku. Now I suspect not too many readers know about Waiuku, and to be frank, there's no reason you should. It's a small town on the edge of Auckland, famous for not ...
Dragonses in Revelationses 17 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
Scott Bailey makes a basic point on his excellent blog about the last book in the Christian Bible, sometimes known as The Apocalypse. You can always tell whether a commentator on this book has even t...
A Whale of a Tale 12 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
What do we do with the Old Testament book of Jonah? Even the mighty Luther was perplexed, saying that it was stranger than any poet's fable. "If it were not in the Bible," quoth he, "I would take it f...
A Chip off the Old Block 9 Aug 2013 | 11:28 am
Block with chip? To call someone "a chip off the old block" is usually regarded as a compliment. But according to that most astute word authority Max Cryer, it didn't exactly begin that way. The exp...
A lot less than meets the eye 6 Aug 2013 | 03:17 pm
Prevarication is a theological art form. Canny theologians will talk and write as if things are "just so" when they're perfectly aware that they're simply manipulating metaphor. It keeps potential cri...
Shifting Sands beside the Dead Sea 4 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Greg Doudna Once upon a time there were a whole bunch of Essene monks, sort of proto-Augustinians, happily living an ascetic existence on the shores of the Dead Sea at a place called Qumran. They wer...
Free magazines for the iPad 2 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
It's nice to get something for nothing, and few things as cool as an interactive magazine. Here are three free Aussie magazines designed for the iPad that I really like. Travel. The Qantas magazine, ...
Showdown at Big Sandy 1 Aug 2013 | 04:08 pm
For those with an interest in the rise and fall of the wacky Worldwide Church of God, good news: major excerpts from Greg Doudna's ground breaking book, Showdown at Big Sandy, are now accessible onlin...
History of a Small Adventist Church 28 Jul 2013 | 08:11 am
Everyone has heard of the Seventh-day Adventists, a religion equally famous for giving the world cornflakes as it is for bizarre interpretations of the book of Revelation. Much less well known are it...
