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		<title>Two Minute Film about the Woman at the Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the website   Bible Films Blog Matt Page noted a new text-to-movie software program from xtranormal.com which is called State.   He challenged individuals to give it a try, and so here is my two minute film on the &#8220;Woman at the Well&#8221; from John 4.

This experiment with creating a “film” using a biblical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=183&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Claude Levi-Strauss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man often called the &#8220;father of modern anthropology,&#8221; Claude Levi-Strauss, died on October 30, 2009, at the age of 100.  He was only a few weeks shy of 101; he was born November 28, 1908.

Levi-Strauss influenced the social-scientific methodology in New Testament studies, especially in the methodology&#8217;s earliest years.  In a very simplistic trajectory, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=175&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use to love Saturday mornings when I was younger; it was the  morning for cartoons on TV.   With 24/7 cartoon networks today and ready access via the internet, kids today  probably do not have the same level of anticipation.   However, in the 1960s, cartoons, especially animated ones, were in limited supply.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=167&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus and Caesar&#8217;s Coin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While working on my paper for the SBL meeting in New Orleans, I chased a little rabbit about the coin of Caesar in Mark 12:13-17 (parallel,  Matthew 22:15-22 and Luke 20:20-26).   I had never really paid attention to that fact that not only does Jesus make reference to the image on the coin, but also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=161&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pompey the Great and the NT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pompey the Great (106-48 BCE) is never mentioned in the NT; however, like the old saying goes, “the dead rule the living.” Pompey set in motion events, situations and persons who would influence the events within Judea well into the first-century and beyond.  The silver denarius below, minted in the year 42 BCE by Pompey’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=154&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oxyrhynchus Hymn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several blogs of late, Mark Goodacre among others, have called attention to  the YouTube musical version of the earliest Christian hymn.
&#8220;The Oxyrhynchus Hymn (P. Oxy. XV 1786) is the earliest known manuscript of a Christian hymn &#8211; dating from the 3rd century AD &#8211; to contain both lyrics and musical notation. It is now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=149&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Novel&#8221; Interpretations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When individuals approach biblical texts for interpretation, they often want to present new or innovative interpretations.   However, &#8220;new&#8221;  interpretations are often greased by gimmick and present nothing new.   Charles H. Cosgrove, in an essay entitled &#8220;Toward a Postmodern Hermeneutica Sacra,&#8221; captures well that in a creative interpretation:  &#8220;. . . newness is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=144&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epilogue Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I was not faithful while blogging in Myanmar.  The second week in the country I was without Internet connections, and during the third week, I found myself teaching several extra class sessions.  I spent most of my energy getting ready for these class times.  However, I have selected a few pictures that give brief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=132&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not blogged for a few days because internet connections have been sporadic, but I wanted to jot a few words because these last few days in Myanmar have been incredible rich.
Bob Johnson and I have been leading seminars at the Myanmar Institute of Theology (MIT).

My seminar focuses on the Johannine writings, Gospel of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=123&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epistle 3, Sunday, 12 July 2009:  On the Road to Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was spent in attending the Maitrichit Chinese Baptist Church pictured below, and also in a celebration of the lay ministry of Thawesak Mahachavaroja, who Central awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree in May 2009.

Two impressions come immediately to mind of the church service.  First, the worship service was very familiar.  With the exception [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&blog=2453485&post=118&subd=ntstudies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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