Summary: The several “Hebat” goddesses implied in a Hittite votive record, and a point of contact with the biblical Shema.
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Summary: I love the Top 50 Bibliobloggers. See why.
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Summary: Stealing office supplies, New Hittite period style! (Reading Context of Scripture in a Year).
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Summary: McGrath writes on two similarly unreasoned positions: mythicism and creationism.
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Summary: Nominate posts to the Biblical Studies Carnival: Blogroll Amnesty Edition.
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Summary: Students taking Hebrew (or Greek) as an elective may or may not get to use it while still in their degree program. What happens where you are?
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Or do you hear the strains of a modern Qohelet in the weary workplace recollections of a dime-store Cassandra? (Eff-Bomb Alert: grown-up language for grown-ups.)
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Summary: I am creating a character, a man of ancient Israel, as a teaching tool for students in Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament. Can you help me flesh him out?
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Summary: this week in Context of Scripture: scribes write postscripts to each other in the king’s letters, and the royalty of Bronze Age superpowers exchange niceties.
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