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Codex Coolness – Dead Sea Scrolls Online
You may recall a few years ago I pointed you towards a project digitising the Codex Sinaiticus – now you can view a digitised version of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well. Tweet
End Of The World? Ummmm. . . .
I’ve been watching and reading with a mixture of fascination, pity, and even horror the various stories coming out of the US about the group predicting the arrival of the apocalypse on 21 May. Millenarian movements are fascinating, not new, and not limited to fringe Protestant groups – there was a serious millenarian movement in [...]
The Bible – How Do You Use It?
This morning’s news trawl dropped me into a number of posts and articles that touched on what one article referred to as “biblical literacy”. That is to say, it explored the amount which people understood modern UK society to be influenced by, or shaped by the biblical narrative. It’s a fascinating idea but one that [...]
Codex Coolness!
I’ve been waiting for this for some time now – I heard about it when it first started – and have remembered and forgotten about it off and on for two years since. But here it is – finally – the web site of the Codex Sinaiticus. What!? Youd don’t know what it is? Ach [...]
Oh bother, I stepped in it . . . .
I must admit I take perverse pleasure in reading the legal sections of the Old Testament – sometimes you’ve just got to sit, laugh, and wonder, what was going on that made this particular point worthy of recording. “You must have a latrine outside the camp, and go out to this; you must have a [...]
O.K. . . . . T.M.I !
Under the heading: “Modesty in brawls” I found this curiosty – “If, when two men are fighting, the wife of one intervenes to protect her husband from the other’s blows by reaching out and seizing the other by his private parts, you must cut off her hand and show no pity.” – Dt. 25.11-12 (NJB) [...]