For 2000 years some of the best minds have been researching the Bible, soooooo my darlings, is there anything new that the academic discipline of biblical studies (if it is academic at all?) can say? Is it possible for biblical scholars to reclaim the Bible from all of the other discipline? Is the Bible even [...]
Well, this is certainly a shocker. The Shroud of Turin is once again and still a forged relic, according to French scientists who explain how the Shroud was made in the 13th-14th century CE. Who knew? You can check it out here or here.
Last week, for a lecture at Tel Zeitah about the Shephelah in the Bronze and Iron Ages, I made a Quicktime movie about 2 Kings 8, the story about how Elisha informs Hazael that he will be king, and how Hazael usurps the throne of Aram. You can see it here.
Some Southern Baptists have established the Happy Trails Cowboy Church. Yeehaw!
According to the NY Times, Israeli doctors and scientists have germinated a 2,000 year old date seed from Masada. They named it, of course, Methuselah.
Yo! On the advice of Bart, the techno-artist behind BibleDudes, you should do like I did and listen to last week’s radio show This American Life by Ira Glass about religion in America. You can listen to it using Real Player, it’s an hour long, and I highly recommend it no matter your political/religious views. [...]
A Presbyterian minister named Russell Smith is leading a Bible Study called “Gospel According to Star Wars” according to Karen Vance of the Enquirer in Cincinnati. The article cites Matthew 28:19, and says that R2-D2 going to such lengths to give Obi-Wan Kenobi the message from Princess Leia is like the Apostles spreading the word [...]
So, forget about all the debate about what Jesus looked like. Now you can smell him according to the people at His Essence Candals. How do they know the odor of Jesus? Well they cite Psalm 45:8 which describes a king’s robes having the fragrance of myrrh, aloes and cassia, then they say the passage [...]
Avid fans of Pokemon and Apocalyptic literature knew that sooner or later, it had to happen! It’s Revelation in a very cool Anime format at Apocamon: The Final Judgement. It is very well drawn and written, and their use of Flash is excellent. For some of the material they require micropaymnets (25 cents for [...]
Dude! Scripturizer like totally converts Bible references in posts and comments into hyperlinks to online Bibles. So I can write John 3:17 and Rev 4:7 and II Samuel 3:11-21 and it totally links to these verses. This should come in handy. You can even use the original languages (Hebrew and Greek) at Zhubert.
