{"id":2973,"date":"2010-01-20T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/reconstructing-tenth-century-hebrew-morality\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:23:00","slug":"reconstructing-tenth-century-hebrew-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/reconstructing-tenth-century-hebrew-morality.html","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructing Tenth-Century Hebrew Morality"},"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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/januaryweb-only\/13-11.0.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Christianity Today<\/i><\/a> does a good job of reporting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2010_01_17_archive.html#2782991288340796545\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Khirbet Qeiyafa<\/a> ostracon, Fox news offers viewers no understanding of the nature of the find, the uncertainty about how the fragmentary text should be translated, or anything else that might be called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollstonepigraphy.com\/?p=56\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">accurate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliahebraica.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/evidence-in-eye-of-beholder.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nuanced<\/a> reporting:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.comcast.net\/ve\/1.0\/1389377739\/555\/457\/<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I\u2019d be delighted if viewers who gravitate to Fox\u2019s conservative reporting take to heart the message of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1262339428603&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Galil\u2019s reconstruction<\/a>, which calls for defending the poor and the stranger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3929476237503946600?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Christianity Today does a good job of reporting on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon, Fox news offers viewers no understanding of the nature of the find, the uncertainty about how the fragmentary text should be translated, or anything else that might be called accurate, nuanced reporting: http:\/\/www.comcast.net\/ve\/1.0\/1389377739\/555\/457\/ Having said that, I\u2019d be delighted if viewers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reconstructing Tenth-Century Hebrew Morality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While Christianity Today does a good job of reporting on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon, Fox news offers viewers no understanding of the nature of the find,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/reconstructing-tenth-century-hebrew-morality.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reconstructing Tenth-Century Hebrew Morality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While Christianity Today does a good job of reporting on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon, Fox news offers viewers no understanding of the nature of the find,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/reconstructing-tenth-century-hebrew-morality.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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