Tuesday, June 03, 2014

HT Jim West: Divination, Politics and Ancient Near Eastern Empire, pdf book is available to download from the Society of Biblical Literature

http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/divination-politics-and-ancient-near-eastern-empires/

Ooh!  This looks like it could be a lot of fun!

There's still all that blogging about Barry Webb's fine commentary on the book of Judges yet to do.  And then there's more to blog about Martin Shields' fascinating and helpful commentary on Ecclesiastes and ... Matiegka sonatas for guitar should have been mentioned a while back and ...

seriously, some rants may emerge about the recent Spiderman film in connection to comics continuity and canon.  There's a lot percolating and sometimes it feels like there's not enough time to write about it all.  And unlike some gigachurch pastors Wenatchee The Hatchet doesn't have some assistance from the Docent Group to rely on to get all the writing done!  No offense meant to the folks at the Docent Group by the way.  :)  There's a difference between having a research assistant who helps you assemble stuff while you're doing real research and writing of your own ... and a research assistant who assembles stuff that some guy who watches a football game on a weekend spends maybe an hour skimming over before recycling it into something that some people pretend to themselves is a competently developed sermon.  A research assistant shouldn't be used as a replacement for your own research and you surely should not use a research assistant as a convenient and implied semi-anonymous scapegoat if it turns out a book with your name on it has plagiarism in it!

Uh ... maybe Wenatchee should dial things back a bit for now.  Ahem ...

Anyway, the book about divination, politics and ancient near eastern empires looks intriguing! 

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