Daily Archives: March 25, 2010

Van Seters Vs. Levinson on Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread (In Van Seters’ Telling)

I finally finished John Van Seters’ A Law Book for the Diaspora!  In this post, I want to look at pages 163ff., in which Van Seters interacts with B.M. Levinson’s Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation.  It takes a … Continue reading

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Conservative Judgmentalism

Rachel Held Evans had a post, The Christian Response to Health Care Reform, in which I got a little heated.  She closed the thread, so I’ll be ranting on my own blog on the issue of conservative judgmentalism. You know, … Continue reading

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Robert Culp, Helicopter Parents, Democratizing Priestly Food Laws, Copying Cuneiform, A Scholar Is Moved, Tyconius the Proto-Preterist?

1.  Actor Robert Culp has passed away.  I mentioned him last month in a post on Roots: The Next Generation, for he appeared in an episode of that miniseries (see Roots TNG 4-5, Reward and Punishment in Wisdom Literature?, YHWH Alone, … Continue reading

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