{"id":436,"date":"2011-01-17T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/martin-luther-king-the-ancient-world-and-the-life-of-the-mind-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2011-01-17T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:48:00","slug":"martin-luther-king-the-ancient-world-and-the-life-of-the-mind-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/martin-luther-king-the-ancient-world-and-the-life-of-the-mind-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King, the Ancient World and the Life of the Mind Around the Blogosphere"},"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>Lots of interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/itself.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/martin-luther-king-a-left-wing-radical\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLK<\/a>-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=2269\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a>, several of which connect <a href=\"http:\/\/eerdword.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/living-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr<\/a>. himself with Biblical studies and other aspects of the study of antiquity. <a href=\"http:\/\/balshanut.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/mlk-ane-scholar\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pete Bekins links to<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/documentsentry\/doc_481124_000\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">essay Martin Luther King wrote for a course on the Old Testament while a student<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/rdtwot.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/dude-thats-modalism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Norelli evaluates the author of a book on the theology of King and Tutu to be a modalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptotheology.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/schweitzer-on-the-mythical-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew Malcolm quotes Albert Schweitzer\u2019s evaluation of why mythicism is implausible<\/a>. Much time has passed, but mythicists are doing no better at addressing his concern \u2013 although, as Schweitzer himself predicted, that hasn\u2019t stopped the viewpoint from being periodically revived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebiblicalworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/jesus-of-wikipedia-modern-example-of.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Byron looks at a modern instance of redaction criticism<\/a> \u2013 the editing history of the Wikipedia page about Jesus. <a href=\"http:\/\/honeyandlocusts.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/combing-the-net-1172011\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Gardner<\/a> links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2375754,00.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article about why you still cannot trust Wikipedia<\/a>. Brad Matthies talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/bradmatthies.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/from-information-literacy-to-metaliteracy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">digital literacy and evaluating sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cscoedinburgh.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/will-there-ever-be-another-martin-hengel\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Keith asks whether there will be another Martin Hengel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newtestamentperspectives.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/why-intellectual-life-matters.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Montonini suspects that some churches fear their members going to seminary<\/a> because they expect that education will lead to criticism of their own dubious beliefs and practices.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/the-worlds-oldes-ugaritic-melody-on-youtube\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/aigbusted.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/melody-from-ancient-past.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AIG Busted<\/a>, this video of music from ancient Ugarit.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=viMbnj_Ei2A?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=viMbnj_Ei2A?fs=1<\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anumma.com\/2011\/01\/17\/aleph-bet-learning-video\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brooke Lester has begun a video series for an immersion course in Hebrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnizachariassen.com\/ithinkibelieve\/?p=1625&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+IThinkIBelieve+(I+Think+I+Believe)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arni Zachariassen shares and discusses BioLogos\u2019 recent statement<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/17\/why-biologos%E2%80%94and-accommodationism%E2%80%94cant-win\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Coyne thinks that BioLogos is doomed to fail<\/a> because it cannot persuade the likes of fundamentalist dinosaurs like Ken Ham and Al Mohler.<\/p>\n<p>Several <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthebrewgrammar.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/15\/book-goals-and-book-reviews\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogs<\/a> discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblicalexegesis.org\/?p=521\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">academic reviews<\/a> that ignore the <a href=\"http:\/\/danielomcclellan.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/16\/robert-holmstedt-on-reviewing-books-on-their-own-terms\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">express purpose<\/a> of the book being reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>3 quarks daily looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2011\/01\/douglas-adams-writing-human-meaning.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">life and philosophy through the lens of Douglas Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8392979699440910384?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interesting MLK-day links, several of which connect Rev. 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