The foreword written afterward
About two weeks ago, the inexplicable bug bit me to write a brief commentary on the Book of Judges. I wanted it to have a conversational tone, with its tongue often straining at its cheek, and I wanted it to largely eschew the ”spiritual metaphors” and ”hidden meanings” that pastors, priests, …
22:10. And they came to the regions of the Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, and the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon.
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I like how another blog I …
And welcome back to the Internet’s greatest Bible commentary, in which Yours Truly reads through the Bible and explains its many mysteries as best my limited education allows. I encourage you to read the Good Book along with me, because my time’s too valuable to write summaries. Here we go!
Wow. That last post really …
So: please find below my summary of Joshua 12-19.
Which I lifted from a page on Wikipedia, that famous fount of information. That page also says that
… by the Bible’s account, and archaeologically as well, the Israelites did not conquer the plains at that time; thus, those borders that run through the plains …
And welcome back to the Internet’s greatest Bible commentary, in which Yours Truly reads through the Bible and explains its many mysteries as best my limited education allows. I encourage you to read the Good Book along with me, because my time’s too valuable to write summaries. Here we go!
11:1. And it was, …
And welcome back to the Internet’s greatest Bible commentary, in which Yours Truly reads through the Bible and explains its many mysteries as best my limited education allows. I encourage you to read the Good Book along with me, because my time’s too valuable to write summaries. Here we go!
10:1. …
Uh oh, there’s a lot to cover here. We’d better jump right into it.
When last we left our hero (as my old O.T. professor always likes to say), Joshua has successfully destroyed the city of Jericho and now has his eye set on its neighbor, Ai.
Above: Family photo! Brooklyn, NY. 2007.
The version of the Hebrew Bible we will use today is once again brought to you by Chabad.org, the website of our favorite Hasids, the Chabadniks (pictured above). They should all live and be well.
Let’s see what their ancestors are doing in the Book of Joshua, chapter …
How was I supposed to know I should take a magazine with this cover seriously? [by Adam Volle]
It’s been a pretty big surprise to me that one of the few magazines out there still interested in shedding some real light on how things work today in Washington D.C. is RollingStone. I mean, yeah, they were cool enough to print stuff from P.J. O’Rourke, but those were basically humor columns. Yet …