{"id":2395,"date":"2009-04-15T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/04\/biblical-scholars-and-personal-religion\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T23:04:00","slug":"biblical-scholars-and-personal-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/04\/biblical-scholars-and-personal-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It is exciting to learn that a new blog has been created by <a href=\"http:\/\/bibleandancientneareast.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/biblical-scholars-and-personal-religion.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alan Lenzi<\/a>, devoted to the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/biblicalscholars.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/introduction.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion<\/a>. Take a look!<\/p>\n<p>On an unrelated note, I just can\u2019t bring myself to dedicate a post about tonight\u2019s episode of LOST [spoilers alert]. Sure, there was significant religious content, both in the reference to God on the chalkboard in the classroom, which Jack was erasing, and the \u201cevangelical\u201d appeal made to Miles by a mysterious group of individuals who may be connected with the Others, or a third group as yet unencountered (but presumably connected with Iliana, the woman who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuffwelike.com\/stuffwelike\/2009\/03\/25\/lost-%E2%80%93-episode-recap-%E2%80%93-he%E2%80%99s-our-you\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">captured Sayid<\/a> and took him on the plane bound for Guam, who I suspect was employed by Ben). So why no post just about this episode? I guess I just have a soft spot for <a href=\"http:\/\/theoriesonlost.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/lost-is-star-wars-by-scribe.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ewoks<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1630717780596270187?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is exciting to learn that a new blog has been created by Alan Lenzi, devoted to the subject of Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion. Take a look! On an unrelated note, I just can\u2019t bring myself to dedicate a post about tonight\u2019s episode of LOST [spoilers alert]. 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