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Review of “Lord of the World,” by Robert Hugh Benson

Lord of the World is an odd book. It is work of apocalyptic fiction. It is science fiction. It is the retro-future: written in 1908, it appears to be set in 2008. It is a snapshot of the Right-wing...

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Religious Education

Via Geographic Travels, a disturbing piece involving censorship of religious instruction in the US Army. In a pluralistic society, where there are many religious voices and religious viewpoints, it is...

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Review of “God is Red” by Liao Yiwu

The “mythic past” of China in the 20th century probably looks something like this: Weakness & Chaos (fall of the Qing, Revolution and Civil Wars, Whampoa, Yenan, Song Dynasty, Invasion by Japan)...

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Impression of “Life of Muhammad” Trailer

So this seems to be the trailer of the film — supported by the controversial Terry Jones — that rioters in Egypt and Libya used as justification to attack the United States, and kill our Ambassador....

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Easter: Flesh and Blood

And the human said: This one at last, bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh… – excerpted from Genesis 4, from The Five Books of Moses, translated by Robert Atler And the Lord said to Cain: Why are you...

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The Book of Kings

The Old Testament is, among other things, a collection of the greatest ancient literature that survives. The Book of Genesis is the story a family across four generations — Abraham thru Joseph – and...

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Review of “The Art of Biblical Narrative,” by Robert Alter

I finished The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter. Genre Conventions Alter argues understanding of the Hebrew Bible is impossible without understanding the literary conventions that its human...

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“The Book of Psalms,” translated by Robert Alter.

I have now read all of Robert Alter’s translations of the Old Testament.  The last book of his translations I was yet to read is “The Book of Psalms.” The Music of the Psalms But it makes me very sad I...

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The Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew The End It begins with an ending. The genealogies and lists in Genesis are used like credits in modern movies — they tell the audience a story is over. They are a way of...

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Impressions of “Laudato Si” by Pope Francis

The Gospel of Matthew begins with that most Jewish of literary creations, the genealogy. And it ends with news that we are never alone Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which...

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The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark is so fast it leaves you dizzy. It begins quoting three seperate Bible verses, introduces the King of Israel, the sacrement of baptism, and the prophet John. In four verses: The...

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The Gospel of Luke

In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. Luke 16:24 Ruth said, “Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where...

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The Gospel of John

John is to the Gospels what Leviticus is to the Torah: the door to mysticism: the apprehension of the inexplicable divine.   Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my...

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Acts of the Apostles

[And Moses said] The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb...

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Letter to the Romans

Paul’s Letter to the Romans is a wisdom book, similar to Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. Like those books it does not introduce new doctrine, new stories, or even deep grounding in an environment....

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Impressions of “The Assembly of the Gods” by E. Theodore Mullen Jr.

tdaxp’s note. Over the weekend I read “The Assembly of Gods,” #24 in the Harvard Semitic Monographs series, by E. Theodore Mullen Jr. The book is brief scholarly, but for me provided a tremendous...

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Review of “The Hammer of God,” by Bo Giertz

While I was reading The Hammer of God I kept thinking of A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter Miller. Like Canticle, Hammer is set in the same location over a long period of time (merely a century in...

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