And is there a lot of it around! Bad Archaeology explains itself thus:
We are a couple of real archaeologists fed up with the distorted view of the past that passes for knowledge in popular culture. We are unhappy that journalists with no knowledge of the methods, aims, techniques and theories of real archaeology can sell [...]
Archive for the ‘Bible’ Category
14 Mar
Bad Archaeology
5 Jan
Joshua to Gaza 2009
It is somewhat ironic that my private Bible reading scheme, which often follows the US Episcopalian lectionary, brought me today to the Book of Joshua.
1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,
2 Moses my [...]
29 Nov
Book notes and footnotes
On the right you will see a small stack of (bargain!) books, two that I have referred to just lately, and one that I am about to review.
The new book
Lawrence Potter (left) has inadvertently led me to a very good book blog via This May Help You Understand the World by Lawrence Potter. [...]
28 Nov
Dark energy, God and humility
I’m afraid that for me theology really is a branch of poetry. When at Christmas we sing “He came down to Earth from Heaven” we know the preposition is objectively meaningless, that the whole expression reflects a long gone cosmology which saw the sky as a vault or “firmament” with God sitting above it. But [...]
6 Nov
US election via George Negus, and the language of religion
Well, no doubt about it. Historic is no exaggeration; hence my previous entry in tribute to Martin Luther King, someone on the minds of many people just now. I will come back to that.
Last night I watched George Negus’s Dateline, mainly because here in Elizabeth Street Surry Hills something weird has happened to our communal [...]
20 Sep
The unexamined religion…
… is not worth believing?
You will find relevant tags and categories in the side bar, and I also refer you to On the awkwardness (and fatuity?) of discussing religion, a post from January 2007, and to the relevant part of the Links Page here. All that is hedging around what may be a can of [...]
13 Sep
Bigotry is not confined to the religious or the right wing
AV has made a kind and much appreciated allusion to this blog’s recent travails. However, when he attributes the event to right-wing authoritarianism he is not entirely correct; certainly an authoritarian cast of mind and an antidemocratic spirit are involved. However, the source of the attack was not necessarily motivated by conventional right-wing politics, and [...]
5 Sep
Yin/Yang beats Either/Or time after time…
I never said my Christianity was orthodox, though I am happy it is acceptable to South Sydney Uniting Church. In fact I am close in spirit, though not in intellectual stature or importance obviously, to the new Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia who is reported as saying he is an “agnostic with [...]
13 Aug
Unleashed: Leaving home — on South Africa today and those who wish to leave…
I am blogging Unleashed: Leaving home by Johann Rossouw, a South African philosopher based in Pretoria, and its accompanying thread, which I urge you to read too, without adding my own two cents worth, except to say I am interested, having heard much through Sirdan and from other sources, and casting my mind back to [...]
29 Jul
The bleeding obvious is still news to too many…
That was my initial thought as I read Freedom 2 b[e] :: View topic – …the death of alex…, which came my way through Anthony Venn-Brown’s latest newsletter, though this forum post is itself a couple of years old. The writer is a gay Christian and the occasion of the text was a resignation speech [...]
14 Jul
A Life of Unlearning — a journey to find the truth — the book
Saved from oblivion: this week’s archived post — July 2008
6 Jun
Christianity’s coats of many colours
That of course is an allusion to the common mistranslation of the coat young Joseph had in Genesis.
Jacob loved Joseph more than he did any of his other sons, because Joseph was born after Jacob was very old. Jacob had given Joseph a fancy coat to show that he was his favorite son, and so [...]
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