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		<title>Birth of Lewis Carroll</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of Charles Dodgson (Jan. 27, 1832) better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll.  He authored several books, many on mathematical topics as a Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.  He is best known, however, for Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson has two connections of interest for theological [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=398&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tonic for Biblical Scurvy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I teach in Kansas, I pay attentions to issues that pop up in Kansas.  Here is an example of the abuse of the Bible and what I call the disease of biblical scurvy.  The Kansas House Speaker, Mike O’Neal, forwarded an email to his Republican colleagues related to a “Prayer for Obama” based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=390&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magi, Messiahs, Mithradates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lectionary reading last week (Matthew 2:1-12) contained the reference to the μαγοι απο ανατολων, “the magi from the rising [East].”  The word μαγοι is most frequently translated as “wise men” (NET, NJB, NLT, NRSV, RSV, ASV, ESV, CEV, and KJV).  The KJV has probably influenced this continued usage.  A few translations transliterate μαγοι simply [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=384&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hook, Line and Sinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As noted in my last post, religion and politics are intimately connected.         An excellent (and sad) illustration of this point is the Theology faculty at the University of Jena in Germany in the 1930s.  Bernard M. Levinson in, &#8220;Reading the Bible in Nazi Germany: Gerhard von Rad&#8217;s Attempt to Reclaim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=380&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Is the Religious Context?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finished reading Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts:  Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (New York:  Crown, 2011).  Its focus was mainly upon the years 1933 and 1934 as seen through the eyes of the newly installed American ambassador, William Dodd, and his daughter Martha.  Larson’s book provides a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=376&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Give Writing Assignments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed grading eight sets of papers.  As I often do at this season, when others are focused on sugar plum fairies, candy canes, or hopefully the Advent of Christ, I reflect on a semester’s worth of papers.  Having graded papers for twenty-seven years, my observation is that most students do not like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=370&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Afterlife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, June 27, I was a guest on the Religion Roundtable which focused around the &#8220;afterlife.&#8221;   The Religion Roundtable is an occasional special feature on  the daily &#8220;Up to Date&#8221; radio show (11:00-12:00) on KCUR 89.3 FM in Kansas City.  The show was hosted by Brian Ellison and included Rabbi Mark Levin and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=352&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Issue of Review &amp; Expositor:  The Economy and the Kingdom of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Review &#38; Expositor, Vol. 107, No. 4, fall 2010, is now available. The focus of the issue is &#8220;The Economy and the Kingdom of God.&#8221;  I highlight this issue because it seems particularly relevant and timely.  I should also note that I was the issue editor for this volume, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=345&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common English Bible:  A Brief Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received in the mail a few days ago a complimentary copy of the Common English Bible (CEB) of the New Testament. You can access the website of this translation here:  CEB.  I am always appreciative of complimentary copies of books (since so many are being published and my budget is limited).  I have only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=338&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Greek to Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David May</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been without Internet connections for the last few days (both a blessing and a curse).  So I have not posted recently.  In the time away from this blog, I have been to Ephesus, Patmos, Santorini, and Crete, Athens, and Delphi.  I though in this blog I would reflect upon one particular artifact I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ntstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2453485&amp;post=330&amp;subd=ntstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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