{"id":43334,"date":"2018-02-22T05:46:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=43334"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:58:47","slug":"there-once-was-a-prophet-from-judah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/02\/there-once-was-a-prophet-from-judah.html","title":{"rendered":"There Once Was a Prophet from Judah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Jeff Carter has a book coming out, which is on a theme that readers of this blog should recognized, since I have highlighted his biblical limericks here before. Here is one that I highlighted<\/a> precisely because it was inspired by a blog post of mine<\/a>, which in turn drew on something that Keith Ward says in one of his books (The Big Questions in Science and Religion<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>p.107):<\/p>\n

It is a part of our Christian creed
\nthat our Jesus ascended, indeed,
\nbut he \u2018aint, to this day,
\nescaped the Milky Way,
\nunless, that is, he\u2019s attained warp speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeff now has a whole collection of his biblical limericks about to be published in book form \u2013 although not including the one I just mentioned above, perhaps because of concerns about how it should be attributed to the sources that influenced it. It does, however, include one that I linked to in a blog post about \u201ctraditional biblical marriage.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The book will be called There Once Was a Prophet from Judah: Biblical Limericks for Fun and Prophet<\/em><\/a>. When the publisher asked me if I would write an endorsement for the book, I was eager to do so, and eventually decided that this might be the appropriate form for the endorsement to take:<\/p>\n

Mr. Carter\u2019s an author who\u2019s liable
\nTo make you laugh at things found in the Bible.
\nComprehension\u2019s a must
\nIf your sides are to bust,
\nBut you\u2019ll also learn \u2013 that\u2019s undeniable!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another limerick of his<\/a> that is not in the book \u2013 because it is not biblical \u2013 is about the Christmas carol \u201cI Saw Three Ships,\u201d which inspired me to in turn share a longer reworking of that carol here on the blog<\/a>, since (as we both note in our different poetic genres) there is no waterway for a ship to take to sail in to Bethlehem!<\/p>\n

See also my blog post about his book\u00a0Muted Hosannas<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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