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About Benj

I’m a native North Jerseyan, transplanted to Pennsylvania...lived and taught in Eastern Europe for six years…Old Testament professor, author, minister, musician, liturgist…husband to Corrie…father to Daniel and Elizabeth.

This post is like a box of chocolates

I’ve been a little light in the blogging dep’t lately. My self-imposed deadline for the submission of my first two thesis chapters (out of six) is next Thursday, as is my fourth wedding anniversary. I’m also preaching this Sunday evening … Continue reading

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Links: 16 June 2011

As someone who works in pharma and is also concerned about the (lack of) integrity of academic research, this article troubles me, if it’s true. John Hobbins at AHP has some good thoughts (as usual) on the OT canon, and … Continue reading

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Travelogue IV: Wine and Wins, Flora and Fauna

In this post I plan to wrap up my series, covering nearly four weeks of my various traipsings through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Amsterdam and South Africa (here, here and here). — I took my first exam (Old Testament criticism) the Wednesday … Continue reading

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New Video: So You Want to Be a Persian Diaspora Jew?

My newest xtranormal.com video:  

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“The Truman Show”–For Every Human Being

What if your life were your own personal The Truman Show, with cameras and everything, capturing every experience–but with your full knowledge and consent?  What if everyone else did the same?  Would history be perfect? In the second section of … Continue reading

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Links: 7 June 2011

Benjamin Powell defends sweatshops, in this article and this podcast. John R. Lott, Jr., never a stranger to controversy, explains that government has grown since universal women’s suffrage, and why. Michael Smerconish has an interesting take on Gov. Christie’s Helicoptergate … Continue reading

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Links: 3 June

On the latest edition of Christ the Center, Camden talks with Dr. David Skeel of UPenn about Christianity in legal studies and bankruptcy law. I just finished listening to Pride and Prejudice, one of my favorite novels. I hadn’t read … Continue reading

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So, You Want to Study Lamentations?

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Meyer, the End of Days, and the Righteous One

Ben F. Meyer, on the early church’s understanding of the implications of Jesus’s resurrection: “[Their] strictly eschatological understanding of resurrection was, of course, distinct from the idea of the revivification of the dead as met with in the Elijah and … Continue reading

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It’s Not the End of the World

Here’s a wonderfully compassionate open pastoral letter from Tim Dalrymple to all those who believed in Harold Camping’s rapture prediction. An excerpt: Tonight the Rapture Parties will go on. The atheists will gloat, the mockers will mock. Yet there’s nothing … Continue reading

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