Hevel.org: A Chasing after Wind

Fabulous. Boing Boing has a few pages from the upcoming graphic novelization of Genesis, based on Robert Alter’s translation. This is going to be excellent.

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Danny has captured my thoughts exactly.  A snippet:
Blah? Blah blah so many blah blah’s. Blah blah, cha-ching blah! Blah— blah blah blah NIV is satanic blah, blah blah ??? blah.

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This is exceedingly good news.  Here is the press release:
Society of Biblical Literature Receives NEH Award
August 17, 2009
Atlanta – The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant to develop an interactive website that would improve public understanding of the Bible and its contexts. This website, “The World [...]

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Julia O’Brien has started a promising new section on her site called “Reading the Bible as an adult,” devoted to the idea that the Bible is, at heart, engaging and nuanced literature that speaks to people within and outside religious communities.  It is tragic, to use her word, that Christians have so thoroughly yoked the [...]

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I realized that I didn’t have a category for yesterday’s post about the Obama/Anti-Christ video, so I created a new one called “Ignorance.”  Such a category shouldn’t have only one entry, however, so I feel inspired to create a few more entries in the “why are Christians so dumb sometimes” vein, what my friend Brooke [...]

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At least according to this guy:

This video proves 3 things:

The “We report, you decide” nonsense must be stopped.
Every copy of Strongs Concordance must be rounded up and burned in a public ceremony on the Capitol steps.
Damn, Christians people can be stupid.

In case you were wondering, pretty much every sentence in the video is factually incorrect.  [...]

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Kevin has called for people to comment on the most important primary sources for understanding the Bible, and I’ve been tagged by Jim.  Today is my first day back in the office after 2 (count ‘em, two) weeks at the beach with my family, so I’m a little behind on everything.
It is impossible to say [...]

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Some of my friends are in the middle of a discussion on Facebook about how to approach the teaching of Hebrew in seminaries: whether to use Bible programs, what grammar to use, etc.  Underlying this discussion is the reality that seminaries and denominations have been dropping the language requirement like a bad habit over the [...]

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A friend in my Sunday School class recently loaned me Kathy Reichs’ 2005 novel, Cross Bones, in which a feisty American forensic scientist (with anthropology training, natch) comes across a skeleton believed to be that of Jesus of Nazareth. The extra little twist is that this skeleton was found among the remains of the [...]

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Our topic in the Kerygma Sunday School class yesterday was Deuteronomy 4-6, with a quick look forward into chapters 28-30.  [We are basically working out way through the Bible, and currently using Collins' "short" introduction as a starting point.]  I had the opportunity to discuss Hebrew translation twice in the lesson.  The group doesn’t know [...]

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