{"id":334,"date":"2011-02-22T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/all-things-biblical-around-the-blogosphere-studies-carnival-love-song-and-literalism\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T08:59:00","slug":"all-things-biblical-around-the-blogosphere-studies-carnival-love-song-and-literalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/all-things-biblical-around-the-blogosphere-studies-carnival-love-song-and-literalism.html","title":{"rendered":"All Things Biblical Around the Blogosphere&#8230;Studies Carnival, Love Song, and Literalism"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/afistfuloffarthings.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/22\/the-carnival-approaches-call-for-submissions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Biblical Studies Carnival is coming. Submit your entries soon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an update to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eisenbrauns.com\/ECOM\/_35M0I76AC.HTM\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Valentine\u2019s Day competition, Eisenbrauns<\/a> has posted a video of a performance of\u00a0\u05d0\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e4\u05d4\u00a0(\u201cPretty Woman\u201d in Hebrew). You can listen to it while you read the rest of this post\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hall quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/theconnexion.net\/wp\/?p=9664#axzz1Eh8hYbzO\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeremy Young on whether <em>questioning<\/em> is <em>unbelief<\/em><\/a>.<br>Rachel Held Evans asks <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelheldevans.com\/pastors-tell-truth\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pastors to tell the truth<\/a>\u00a0(HT <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/02\/on-truthful-pastors\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts<\/a>).<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2011\/feb\/21\/biblical-literalism-bible-christians\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Tomkins talks about the origins of Biblical literalism<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/goulablogger.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/22\/i-believe-in-the-bible-gods-holy-word\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chuck Grantham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/02\/the-history-of-biblical-literalism\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts<\/a>).<br>Timothy Beal explains that <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/22\/my-take-there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-the-bible\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">there is no such thing as \u201cthe Bible\u201d and never has been<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5345027878937749902?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biblical Studies Carnival is coming. Submit your entries soon! In an update to their Valentine\u2019s Day competition, Eisenbrauns has posted a video of a performance of\u00a0\u05d0\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e4\u05d4\u00a0(\u201cPretty Woman\u201d in Hebrew). You can listen to it while you read the rest of this post\u2026 Richard Hall quotes Jeremy Young on whether questioning is unbelief.Rachel Held [&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-334","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>All Things Biblical Around the Blogosphere...Studies Carnival, Love Song, and Literalism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Biblical Studies Carnival is coming. 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