by Carl Howard | Apr 7, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
After a brief hiatus thanks to holidays and conferences about nothing, regular blogging should be back. I’ve yet to catch up on the blogging-the-Bible posts but I was spurred to write about the Bible and terrorism thanks to this recent post by Keren Tuch The Jewish...
by Carl Howard | Mar 4, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
Chapters 13 and 14 form a bizarre series of incidents about the continuation of Saul’s military campaign against the Philistines. War profiteering The first is the description of war profiteering by the Philistines (13:19-21). As mentioned before, the book quite...
by Carl Howard | Feb 5, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Just Who Was Ruling Over Israel? The book of Samuel now takes an interesting turn and sorta pulls the rug out from under you. Chapters 1-12 depict a relatively independent Israel that has just chosen Saul for itself as king. Now, it turns out that all this time, the...
by Carl Howard | Feb 1, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Classic texts are often portrayed as timeless, as something that can be related to beyond the specific context their author wrote them in. Shakespeare is the best example, with many an English teacher swearing that the portrayals of, say, despair, grief and betrayal...
by Carl Howard | Jan 18, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
–[continued from previous post] choose the first king of Israel. This is the unfortunate (as we’ll learn later) lad called Saul, the precursor to the book’s main protagonist. The story of Saul becoming king is very well written, reminding me of the story of Samuel’s...
by Carl Howard | Jan 18, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
–[continued from previous post] choose the first king of Israel. This is the unfortunate (as we’ll learn later) lad called Saul, the precursor to the book’s main protagonist. The story of Saul becoming king is very well written, reminding me of the story of Samuel’s...
