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Last night I had the chance to watch Genesis \u2013 The Video Show<\/a>\"\". The first album I ever bought was Duke<\/em> on cassette, and I decided to learn to play keyboards<\/a> after seeing the video for \u201cFollow You, Follow Me\u201d. (I even attended Bible college with the drummer in the band that eventually split to become, on the one hand Genesis, and on the other hand\u2026nothing. Presumably the band members have met Kevin Bacon<\/a>, so\u2026you figure it out). I have tried listening to some contemporary progressive rock bands, but I can\u2019t think of one that really impresses, much less moves, me the way Genesis does.<\/p>\n

Is this just nostalgia, or is the old music really better? As I watched the videos, I found I even enjoyed the ones from Calling All Stations<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (which featured only two of the original members) more than much other music I\u2019ve heard lately. I might also mention that Tony Banks<\/a> has offered some classical compositions to his fans recently \u2013 his album Seven: A Suite for Orchestra<\/a>\"\"<\/i> was released on the Naxos music label. <\/p>\n

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I found myself wondering if nostalgia is also the reason why some Biblical authors found they couldn\u2019t let go of earlier imagery of creation, like that of God fighting the sea monster<\/a>, and why many people today feel they cannot let go of particular Biblical language even when it doesn\u2019t seem to reflect our present experiences or understanding of the world. Like Jesus\u2019 parable about the wineskins, when offered the new, we all have the tendency to say \u201cthe old is good\u201d.<\/p>\n

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For those of us who used to (or still) play Dungeons and Dragons<\/a>, there is a role playing game set in Biblical times called Testament<\/a>, published by Green Ronin Press<\/a>. Taking some Biblical statements such as \u201cthere were giants in the land in those days\u201d completely seriously, this game allows adventurers to encounter 30 new monsters in advenstures set in the Biblical era. I wonder how this might be used as a teaching tool. I also wonder how a character who is a Levitical priest might talk his way out of an encounter with one of the Nephilim. I\u2019ve never seen this particular game, much less played it, but I will try to do one if not both of those things in the near future.<\/p>\n

Finally, not least in order to make up for failing to include the Higgaion blog<\/a> in my blogroll, even though it is one I try to visit regularly, let me draw attention to a recent post about a novel<\/a> that does to the Hebrew Bible what The Da Vinci Code did to the New Testament. Anything, it seems, can be \u201cbrowned\u201d.<\/p>\n

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