{"id":4345,"date":"2007-07-20T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/07\/did-paul-get-whacked\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T16:25:00","slug":"did-paul-get-whacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/07\/did-paul-get-whacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Paul Get Whacked?"},"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>This entry is simply to share another interesting connection between Biblical literature and popular culture, in this instance Micah Kiel\u2019s article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sbl-site.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Society of Biblical Literature web site <\/a>entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/sbl-site.org\/Article.aspx?ArticleId=695\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Did Paul Get Whacked? The Endings of The Sopranos and the Acts of the Apostles<\/a>\u201c. The question asked there regarding what constitutes a \u2018good ending\u2019 obviously relates to the recent thread on the ending of Mark\u2019s Gospel as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9202003934650645635?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entry is simply to share another interesting connection between Biblical literature and popular culture, in this instance Micah Kiel\u2019s article on the Society of Biblical Literature web site entitled \u201cDid Paul Get Whacked? The Endings of The Sopranos and the Acts of the Apostles\u201c. 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