{"id":2560,"date":"2009-01-10T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/a-death-and-a-resurrection\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T20:55:00","slug":"a-death-and-a-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/a-death-and-a-resurrection.html","title":{"rendered":"A Death and a Resurrection"},"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>While it is being said that <a href=\"http:\/\/ntwrong.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/07\/thats-all-folks\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NT Wrong<\/a> (the blog, not the person behind it) is dead, we have also heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypotyposeis.org\/weblog\/2009\/01\/early-christian-writings.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">glad tidings<\/a> of a web site\u2019s resurrection. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Early Christian Writings<\/a>, one of the most useful online resources for the study of early Christian sources, has returned to life. So too has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyjewishwritings.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Early Jewish Writings<\/a>. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Peter Kirby, who maintains these sites. Their value is great, and it is too bad that the internet is not designed to allow him to hear the thundrous applause as the news of the return of these sites circulates among scholars and all sorts of other people interested in these subjects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7856949233640028263?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it is being said that NT Wrong (the blog, not the person behind it) is dead, we have also heard glad tidings of a web site\u2019s resurrection. 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