The latest Biblical Studies Carnival is hosted by Vincent Artale Jr., whose first time it is hosting a carnival.Next month’s host will be Jennifer Guo, and it will be her first time hosting, too. She already has a post with a form for submitting links for the February carnival! Read more
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The episode begins with a flashback of Claire being in a car accident. She comes around, but her mother has been thrown through the car windshield and is lying on the street. The mother ends up on life support, and Dr. Woodruff says the cost of her treatment is being taken care of by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Later, we see Christian Shepard visiting her. Claire’s aunt Lindsey knows him. He is the one paying the bills, and... Read more
I really loved a phrase that Leigh Ann Hildebrand used on Facebook recently, when she said that someone thinks a particular Southern Baptist leader is “the best thing since sliced scripture.” But it also got me thinking about what sliced scripture might mean, and just then I happened across Zack Hunt’s post, asking whether Bible verses are the worst thing ever. Sure, they make it easier to refer to specific spots in Biblical texts. But is that worth the cost of people thinking... Read more
As the party heads north looking for Jack, they find a cow with a bell around its neck, and then a building with a satellite dish on top and other animals around it, and the man with the eye patch they had seen on the screen in the Pearl station. Danielle has never been there before. She has no interest in the man, and waits for as may of them survive. Sayid is shot in the arm as he approaches... Read more
The handling of mummy masks by Josh McDowell, allegedly in the interest of getting his hands (literally) on a first-century copy of Mark and perhaps other New Testament texts, has been getting a lot of attention. Some – including me at one point – have missed exactly what he said as a result of not watching the video the entire way through. Thankfully, Beau Quilter has made a transcript of the relevant part of the video: “Now, what you do, you take this... Read more
From Inherit the Mirth we get the untold story of the Exodus. HT Allan Bevere. Read more
In a flashback, Hurley’s father tells him that hope is never stupid, and “in this world, you gotta make your own luck.” On the island, we see Hurley talking about his experience, and being scared most of his time on the island, except when he was with Libby. He is talking to her, at her grave, which has a cross to mark it. He puts a flower there. Charlie tells Hurley that Desmond said he is going to die. Hurley... Read more
I shared a link to a blog post by Jonathan Bernier a while back, which questioned the relevance of the purported employment of the traditionally-proposed author of the Fourth Gospel. Here’s a list which someone put together of occupations of tannaitic rabbis: The sages of the Talmud worked at many diverse occupations. For instance, Hillel was a woodchopper before he became the Nasi (President of the Sanhedrin) and Shammai the Elder was a builder. Abba Chilkiyah was a field laborer; Rabbi... Read more
Tom Friendly tells Jack they are moving him. Jack says that if they are going to kill him, they should have the honesty not to call it “moving” him. Tom asks Jack what kind if people he thinks they are. he says the kind of people that would kidnap a pregnant woman, hang Charlie from a tree, and take children. Tom taps on the window in his cell and says, “You see this glass house you’re living in? How about... Read more
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