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Feb 04
2010
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I've just encountered powerful curriculum on Joshua. It's entitled Joshua: A Journey of Faith and is the 2009-2010 Horizons Bible Study for Presbyterian women.
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Feb 04
2010
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I've just encountered powerful curriculum on Joshua. It's entitled Joshua: A Journey of Faith and is the 2009-2010 Horizons Bible Study for Presbyterian women.
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Feb 02
2010
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West Bank and Israel Travel Log #2: WallsPosted by Julia in travel , tourism , politics , Lancaster Theological Seminary , geography |
The first of many unsettling experiences during the LTS West Bank/Israel trip was my introduction to the Wall. While I had read much about the "separation wall" between Israel and the Occupied Territories and even seen photos from friends, I wasn't prepared for the reality.
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Jan 29
2010
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From January 6 to January 25, I joined my colleague Anabel Proffitt in leading a group of 21 students from our institution through the West Bank and Israel. I've recently returned, my camera full of pictures and my head full of realities to process and responses to formulate. In the next few weeks, I'll be reporting on my evolving experience of the trip.
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Jan 28
2010
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I've recently returned from co-leading a group of seminarians on a 17-day trip to the West Bank and Israel. It was an intense experience, and I'll soon start blogging and uploading photos.
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Dec 11
2009
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Preparing for Upcoming JourneysPosted by Julia in travel , teaching , politics , Lancaster Theological Seminary , family |
A lot will happen in the next six weeks.
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Dec 01
2009
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Fighting over Manuscripts in the Digital Age: The BlockbusterPosted by Julia in science , scholars , novels , movies , manuscripts |
It's a common plot of novels and movies: while the superstitious public clings to outdated religious beliefs, people in power compete for access to ancient manuscripts which reveal the powerful, if shocking, truth about the past. Think The DaVinci Code. Indiana Jones movies. Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. Irving Wallace's The Word.
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Nov 22
2009
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Reading the Bible with Reading Lolita in TehranPosted by Julia in Pentateuch , meetings , books , Bible as literature |
Between attending sessions and meetings at the Society of Biblical Literature meeting, I’m living in Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. I say “living in” because that’s how I interact with books. I live in them and they live in me—some for a few days, some for decades.
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Nov 18
2009
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2012 and the Noah NarrativePosted by Julia in violence , Pentateuch , movies |
In a recent New York Times review of the new movie 2012, Manohla Dargis twice links the destruction-of-the-world movie with the Bible.
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Nov 13
2009
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Ancient Literature for Modern HealingPosted by Julia in trauma , theater , movies , Bible for adults , Bible as literature |
A recent New York Times article reports that the U.S. military has turned to a new resource to help soldiers name and heal from the trauma of war: the very old literature of Sophocles.
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Nov 11
2009
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Psalms and Def Jam PoetryPosted by Julia in teaching , scholars , Psalms , poetry , language , Lancaster Theological Seminary |
It's one thing to acknowledge that the book of Psalms is written as poetry. It's quite another to consider what difference the poetic style makes to interpretation of the Psalms. What if we encountered Psalm 139's claim that "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" not in private devotion or from the mouth of a lector in church but in a context more like that of def jam? This great piece is Marty McConnell's "Instructions for a Body."