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Thanks to Jim Getz for drawing to my attention something that I must have missed when it appeared on AWOL: The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive. It is a site for a project aimed at bringing not only digital images of the bowls (hopefully including Mandaic ones!), but also scholars working on these bowls, together into a virtual collaborative space. They also have the coolest logo ever, mimicking the spiral writing characteristic of the magic bowls. One publicly-accessible result already connected with... Read more

Ken Schenck has a post up that provides today’s quote of the day. It begins with the same theme as David Ker’s book: The Bible Wasn’t Written To You. But then Ken goes on to say something more that even those who get this first point can overlook: The individual books of the Bible themselves do not have the same audiences. That is, the “Y-O-U” of each book is often different from each other. It is a simple point, and... Read more

Via several different blogs as well as e-mail, an appeal went out today for contributions to the Ancient World Open Bibliographies Project. Click through to learn more. Read more

Those who find the perspectives of Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow helpful in thinking about matters of religion and science may be interested in their next free online seminar, called “Evolutionize Your Life.” Read more

All of the signs below are from the site Passive-Aggressive Notes, which was drawn to my attention by my colleague and fellow coffee-drinker Brad Matthies. If you put one up in your workplace, let me know! Read more

Tim Bulkeley is looking for humor everywhere in the Bible, and is stuck the same place that I got stuck the first time I tried to read the Bible from start to finish as a teenager: Chronicles. Is there humor in Chronicles? The best I could come up with is the rendering of 2 Chronicles 7:22 in The Message: “And Israel will be nothing but a bad joke among the peoples of the world.” So is there humor in Chronicles?... Read more

At BioLogos, the next installment in a series on Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography in the Bible. Troy Britain illustrates that young-earth creationists like Henry Morris don’t only have unpersuasive and dishonest arguments – they aren’t even bothering to update them significantly, so they are the same old unpersuasive and dishonest arguments as well! Click through and see some specific instances of creationist dishonesty, such as using a photo of an organism that is off by some 400 million years so as... Read more

Another great, challenging, provocative cartoon from Naked Pastor: The politically correct term is “altitudinally challenged”… Read more