I’ll try to keep this quick. I’m looking for information about bible slavery. Particularly old-testament slavery. In every discussion I’ve heard of late on this topic, the apologists’ argument seems to centre around how old testament slavery was vastly different to, say, southern US antebellum slavery – it involved fixed terms of seven years, it …
Monthly Archive: December 2012
Dec 20 2012
What I’ve been learning about St Paul.
I’ve been learning so much about Paul this year. Things that never ever occurred to me as a believer, and which I’ve never heard any believer address, are, like a lot of things, common knowledge to the biblical scholarship community. (Well, – the basis of a common knowledge upon which debate rages as to the …
Dec 04 2012
“What if Hitler had won?” (Christian objective morality)
I’m going to look at an argument for objective morality that I heard enunciated on a Christian podcast a week or two back. You’ll know it, it’s not new. This time, however, it really got me thinking, and it could be the basis for a talkie-video on NonStampChannel2 some time. Before I put the time …
Dec 02 2012
A bible quiz, courtesy of Dr. Dale Martin of Yale.
I love the Internet. It allows me to be a student of Yale University. Well, that is to say that I’ve been making my way through a series of lectures by Dale Martin, of Yale University, on early New Testament history, available for free on iTunesU. Yep, I may as well be sitting in the …
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