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Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
John Wesley: "[Wealth] is an excellent gift of God, answering the noblest ends. In the
hands of his children it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the
naked. It gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we
may supply the place of an husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless;
We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to
them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame; yea, a
lifter up from the gates of death."
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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This year I'll be posting the daily readings from a 1-Year Bible
reading plan. It runs straight through the Scriptures. I'll also be
linking to free audio downloads of an updated version of the American
Standard Version, so you can listen if the reading isn't possible. It
may not be the best translation, but it is free and open source.
Today's Reading: Genesis 7-9
MP3 Audio:
Gen 7 | Gen 8 | Gen 9
Here's my personal translations from Genesis 1-11 that I blogged last year:
Genesis 7 Translation
Genesis 8 Translation
Genesis 9 Translation
For reading, I highly recommend The Five Books of Moses
by Everett Fox as a great English version of Genesis-Deuteronomy. In
my opinion it captures the feel of the Hebrew text great, while also
being a very readable and accurate translation. I discovered it after
I had worked on my translation and was thrilled that in some places I
had made similar choices.
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 |
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This year I'll be posting the daily readings from a 1-Year Bible
reading plan. It runs straight through the Scriptures. I'll also be
linking to free audio downloads of an updated version of the American
Standard Version, so you can listen if the reading isn't possible. It
may not be the best translation, but it is free and open source.
Today's Reading: Genesis 4-6
MP3 Audio:
Gen 4 | Gen 5 | Gen 6
Here's my personal translation and commentaries from Genesis 1-11 that I blogged last year:
Genesis 4 Translation | Commentary
Genesis 5 Translation
Genesis 6 Translation
For reading, I highly recommend The Five Books of Moses
by Everett Fox as a great English version of Genesis-Deuteronomy. In
my opinion it captures the feel of the Hebrew text great, while also
being a very readable and accurate translation. I discovered it after
I had worked on my translation and was thrilled that in some places I
had made similar choices.
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 |
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Bono lists his Top Ten for the next decade in the New York Times. Here's an example of one:
Matter Doesn’t Matter
God, it appears, is a Trekkie. (God help us.)
Dr. Anton
Zeilinger, an Austrian physicist, is becoming a rock star of science
for his work in quantum teleportation, which I know very little about
but which I think I may have achieved backstage one night in Berlin in
the early 1990s. At any rate, it seems to have something to do with
teleporting properties or bits of information, not physical objects;
even though Dr. Zeilinger plays down the possibility of a “Star Trek”
moment, his breakthroughs are catching the attention of the
nonscientific world for their metaphysical implications. His own
version of E=mc2 ends in a cosmic punch line: that when it comes to the
origin of the universe, information matters more than matter.
The whole article is worth a read.
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 |
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From an article about the first burial shroud from 1st century Judea being found:
"We really hit the jackpot."
Found in a first-century
cemetery filled with priestly and aristocratic burials, the tomb was
initially opened by looters, who left the shroud behind, apparently
thinking it has no market value. Experts were able to retrieve the
artifact before it began to disintegrate.
The so-called Tomb of the Shroud is a rarity among Jerusalem tombs from the time of Jesus.
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starters, the Tomb of the Shroud appears to have been sealed shut with
plaster for 2,000 years, perhaps as a precaution against the spread of
leprosy or tuberculosis, which was also detected in DNA extracted from
the man's bones.
The tight seal apparently allowed the
shroud—radiocarbon-dated to between A.D. 1 and 50—to survive the high
humidity levels characteristic of Jerusalem-area caves.
Archaeologists
were surprised to even find remains inside the tomb. Traditionally
corpses were removed from such tombs after a year or so and placed in
ossuaries, or bone boxes.
The article also briefly mentions the following significant discovery:
. . . the remains of the man wrapped in the shroud are said to hold DNA evidence of leprosy—the earliest known case of the disease.
So after all these years of connecting the leprosy of the Bible with skin disorders others than Hansen's Disease, maybe it was leprosy after all?
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