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Category Archives: Deane Galbraith
The Worst Book Cover in Religious Publishing Awards 2010
Religion Bulletin would like to open nominations for the The Worst Book Cover in Religious Publishing Awards 2010. This is the first year in which these awards have been run, and we sincerely hope it will become an annual fixture. You have … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Pedagogy, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged Antichrist, Arthur Goldberg, bad cover, book cover, Brad Warner, celibacy, homosexuality, Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, JONAH, Light in the Closet, Mikhail Gorbachev is God and Magog, polyamory, Randolph Wright, sex, Sex Sin and Zen
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November 2010 Biblical Studies Carnival – Call for Submissions
The Biblical Studies Carnival is a monthly blog carnival which has been running (albeit with a few interruptions) since April 2005. It collects and showcases a selection of posts on academic biblical studies, and is normally run by a different biblical … Continue reading
“Sausage” Blacklisted by the Society of Biblical Literature!
A controversy threatens to expand out of all proportion over an academic’s use of the term “sausage” in the title of his paper scheduled for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in November. The paper, by ballsy Australian biblical scholar Roland Boer, is provocatively entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Pedagogy
Tagged dicks, penis, Roland Boer, sausage, sausage-fest, SBL, Society of Biblical Literature
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Jesus vs. Google
Yesterday evening, as I happened to be walking to the Banksy film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, I noticed this amusing piece of street art: (Moray Place, Dunedin, New Zealand – Artist unknown) Not bad … but wrong font choice.
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged Banksy, Dunedin, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Google, Jesus, street art
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Odds on the Resurrection of Jesus: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1
There are quite a few academic and quasi-academic studies in which statistical analysis seems to be employed as a substitute for thinking. It is, perhaps, fairly understandable why some people are tempted by the allure of numbers. Those mysteriously complex formulae, mindnumblingly boring statistics and obscure mathematical notations lend a magical … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Popular Culture
Tagged 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, apologetics, Argument from Miracles, Bayesian probability, Christ, Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger, Josh McDowell, Lydia McGrew, N.T. Wright, Natural Theology, quasi-academics, resurrection, Robert Anderson, The Coming Prince, The Pope, The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth, The Resurrection of The Son of God, Timothy McGrew, Tom Wright, William Lane Craig
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What would British Novelist John le Carré have asked Tony Blair had he interviewed him?
What’s the one question that British novelist John le Carré would have asked Tony Blair, if he had had the chance? John le Carré answers in a recent interview with Democracy Now: I think I would have asked him one … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Politics and Religion
Tagged I did what I believe is right, John le Carré, Tony Blair
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Listen to Babylonian Online – And learn how to pronounce a lacuna!
Martin Worthington (pictured right), of St. John’s College, Cambridge University, has done a great service to enthusiasts of Ancient Mesopotamia, by putting together an online audio archive of Ancient Babylonian. As I listened to the reading of a segment of The Epic of Gilgamesh … Continue reading
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