BibleDudes Blog

Check out Bible Fight! It’s pretty awesome darlings. Thanks to Mary O’bliged for the tip.

A team of archaeologists led by Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University claims they have located the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium. Mazel Tov!

Despite what Stephen Prothero claims, Joan of Arc was married to Noah. Oh those revisionists do make a donkey tired.

He was a frozen embryo in liquid nitrogen who nearly thawed in the aftermath of Katrina. The testube was rescued, and many months later a baby boy was born. The parents named him Noah of course.

Darlings, it seems that David Plotz, a self described “ignoramus,” is set on reading the Good Book and blogging about his experience. Good luck with that David, and we’ll check up on you later.

Recently a construction worker in Ireland discovered a Medieval book of psalms while he was removing peat with a backhoe. The book is about 20 pages, in Latin script, and Bernard Meehan (Trinity College) dates the manuscript to 800-1000 CE. The book was found open to Psalm 83.

I just read about a new Bible Commentary produced by African Bible scholars that addresses contemporary issues such as slavery, AIDS, and female circumcision. Sounds cool.

An interesting LA Times article discusses the use of technology in modern American Christianity.

The Vatican, according to the BBC, is set to release a document allowing people infected with HIV to use condoms. There are basically two biblical verses in Genesis that have inspired Catholics to ban condoms. They are Gen 1:28 and Gen 38:9.

Matt Page just let me know about the Bible Films Blog, and it is awesome! They have a review of the recent Ten Commandments movie on ABC, and like totally way more.