Monthly Archives: August 2017

A bit of a ramble about chronological order in the Bible

Posted on August 15, 2017 by

Any time you tell a story, you need to put it in some kind of order. My bias is to use chronological order. But I recently saw the movie Arrival where the challenge is to communicate with alien beings who … Continue reading →

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Sparks and the age of the Song of Deborah

Posted on August 10, 2017 by

Beginning in April of 2005 I blogged for several weeks about Kenton Sparks’ book, God’s Word in Human Words. Sparks has now made available on the Internet his paper “Religion, Identity and the Origins of Ancient Israel”, which was originally … Continue reading →

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Eclipse hysteria touches the Bible

Posted on August 9, 2017 by

The Kansas City Star anticipating the solar eclipse on August 21, which will be total here, published an article with this headline:  “Was Jesus crucified during a solar eclipse? NASA shows one occurred in 33 A.D”.  This caught my attention … Continue reading →

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The DNA of the Philistines

Posted on August 4, 2017 by

Could we be on the verge of finding out who the Philistines and other Sea Peoples were? There has just been published a report about the genetic ancestry of the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean people. These would have been … Continue reading →

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Bad cows

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

The Bible has unicorns, at least in the King James Version.  Modern versions have replaced this with “wild ox”.  For examples of this look to the Balaam oracles: Numbers 23:22 and Numbers 24:8.  I think Jerome’s Latin translation is to … Continue reading →

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