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		<title>So THAT&#8217;S why the U.S. was happy to see Kazai win in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report in AKI (Adnkronos International) Kazai&#8217;s erstwhile election rival Abdullah was obliged to withdraw from the race when the U.S. swung its full support behind Karzai. That sounds odd given the media publicity at the time over outrageously fraudulent pro-Karzai election officials (some polling booths reporting 100% votes for Karzai, many yielding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4353&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A classicist&#8217;s insights into how Acts was composed and stitched together</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neilgodfrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literary analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to read fresh insights that potentially open new understandings on how a biblical author worked to produce what became a part of the foundational canon of western civilization.
I&#8217;ve recently been catching up with New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism by classics professor George A. Kennedy (1984).
Acts 1:1-15:35 seems to be a compositional unit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4344&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian conversion &#8211; an idea crafted by Paul from ancient philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BOOK REVIEWS & NOTES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engberg-Pedersen: Paul and the Stoics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation from Paul and the Stoics &#8211; 1, a look at Troels Engberg-Pedersen&#8217;s thesis.
The previous post introduced a model which enables us to see the stark similarities of the very structures and foundations of Paul&#8217;s theological thought with the Stoic philosophical teachings of his contemporaries. The source of these Stoic (and Pauline) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4325&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appealing to Faith in a Search for Truth, Playing Tennis Without a Net</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neilgodfrey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you appeal to faith when reason has backed you into a corner, think about whether you really want to abandon reason when reason is on your side.
(This quote and the following post are largely taken from page 154 of Darwin&#8217;s Dangerous Idea by Dennett.)
Many believers in God claim that their faith is something beyond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4313&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul and the Stoics &#8211; 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neilgodfrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Paul and the Stoics (2000) Troels Engberg-Pedersen, building on major scholarly perspectives of Paul, argues for three new ways of understanding Paul&#8217;s thought and &#8220;theology&#8221;.

1. Historical reading
Following Malherbe (Paul and the Popular Philosophers, et al), E-P insists that Paul should not be seen as &#8220;against&#8221; some Greco-Roman background, but as &#8220;being &#8216; part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4254&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candi Ceto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearby the Candi Sukuh is a (Hindu?) temple, &#8220;Candi Ceto&#8221;, also high up in a mountain region.
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		<title>Sukuh Temple in Java &#8211; different, embarrassing, erotic and largely unknown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neilgodfrey</dc:creator>
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I was recently holidaying in central Java and one &#8220;ancient&#8221; temple I had hoped to see was Candi Sukuh. I had heard it was very different from the usual run of the mill temple complexes at Borobudur and Prambanan, which I also had to see of course, and I hoped a first hand look would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4234&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eye-Witness or Bird&#8217;s-Eye Gospel Narratives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a mind game I sometimes play when assessing claims that the gospel authors used eye-witness reports as their sources. The game is to attempt to position oneself in the mind of the author as one reads, and to imagine with each word picture the author actually recalling the words of a reporting eye-witness. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4218&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to creationist Jonathan Sarfati</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will not be accepting an invitation I recently received to attend a lecture by creationist Jonathan Sarfati. I looked at Creation Ministries website and found an online book of his there, and dashed off my responses to it chapter by chapter and pasted it in Google Docs: http://tinyurl.com/jsarfati. Will respond to my invitation by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4221&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pattern of Years of Judah&#8217;s Kings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Memories of Ancient Israel: An Introduction to Biblical History &#8212; Ancient and Modern, by Philip R. Davies. . . . . .
1 and 2 Kings detail corresponding years of ascensions and deaths between kings of the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, and the lengths of reigns of each. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4202&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed Richard Dawkins&#8217; latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution. Loved just about all of it, but a few particular themes have left their mark in my mind more than others. 
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		<title>The Zionist Dream, from delusion to vindictiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilad Atzmon&#8217;s analysis of the Zionism strikes harmonious chords with other analyses of the psychology of fundamentalist Christianity, in particular with the latter&#8217;s self identity being grounded in a sense of natural worthlessness (consequence of sin) and in their belief that they can only become &#8220;whole&#8221; through fantasies that view others as inferior or worthless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4182&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Christian Zionism / Judeo-Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to be reminded that Christianity is not uniformly pro-Zionist-Israel. I would rather that those opposed to it pushed  more substantial flesh and blood reasons for their critique than the medieval notion of religious heresy, but at least tiny glimpses of some of the flesh and blood human reasons for opposing it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4172&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comparing Modern and Biblical &#8220;Histories&#8221;
The idea of history as a scholarly attempt to explain &#8220;what really happened in the past&#8221; is a relatively young European invention. The &#8220;first modern historian&#8221; is said to be Edward Gibbon (his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published 1770&#8217;s-1780&#8217;s); the acknowledged founder of modern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4112&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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A stone monument constructed by an Assyrian monarch around 850 b.c.e. makes mention of the biblical king of Israel, Ahab, and another king named in the Bible, Hadadezer of Syria. This is the famous Kurkh stele.
The Assyrian king, Shalmaneser III, uses this stone to boast of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4030&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hidden broken link</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[notice someone has been trying to access a broken link on this blog but i&#8217;m unable to locate the post or comment where that link is. &#8212; current site for all my notes on archaeology (davies and in search of ancient israel) is at vridar.info, but do please let me know if come across anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4094&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eddy and Boyd in a classic case of special pleading argue for the reality of demon-possession today:
We do not wish to dispute that some, if not the majority, of these reports [of "demonization"] may be explained in naturalistic terms. But what justification is there for assuming that all such reports of the supernatural can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4082&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gospel of Luke relied heavily on the Gospel of Mark but omits everything in Mark that lies between the miracle of feeding the 5000 to Peter&#8217;s acknowledgment that Jesus was the Christ. That is, after following much of Mark closely, Luke omits:

Jesus walking on the sea of Galilee
Healing many at Gennesarat
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luke opened his gospel with a solid reassurance to Theophilus:
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in  order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among  us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning  were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vridar.wordpress.com&blog=558383&post=4045&subd=vridar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the question of Bible reliability: Trust, good; Doubt, bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is nice to see Philip R. Davies (Memories of Ancient Israel) hit this one head on, page 134:
. . . verdicts of reliability or unreliability are morally equal.
Those in favor of the reliability approach sometimes imply that belief and trust are virtuous, while doubt and mistrust are bad. 
Analogies . . . 

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