"[New Testament] scholarship is sometimes overimpressed with its own judgments about what Paul could, or (especially) could not have said or done." "One can be sure, for example, that if we did not have 1 Corinthians, one of the "assured results" of NT scholarship would be that Paul and his churches new nothing of the Eucharist. Indeed, but for the abuses in the church in Corinth, one can only imagine what other assured results based on silence there might be." -- Gordon D. Fee, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, a Good News Commentary, ed. W....
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Books of the Bible song
When i was i kid i learned the books of the Bible in a song to the tune of "Jesus loves me". I tried to look it up to teach it to my kids (since my memory of some of it was a bit fuzzy), but Google had no reference to it whatsoever (i searched on specific phrases i was sure about). Here is the song as best i remember it:
(Verse)
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges
Ruth, First and Second Samuel
First and Second Kings and Chronicles too
(Chorus)
Ezra, Nehemiah
Esther, Job, Psalms...
Updated biblical genealogy graph
Here's an updated version of the genealogy graph (in PNG and SVG formats, and the graphviz source file i used to create it). I've managed to get a only a little farther, but it is still an interesting graph. Graphviz's dot tool is particularly good for genealogies because it tries to draw all ancestors to a node on the same rank....
Mark Twain on watermelon
Recent output from the Linux "fortune" command:
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Twain had obviously never tried mango or fresh pineapple, and his recollection of Genesis 3 was a little off as well! :-)
John Wesley: Is there hope for me?
Here is comfort, high as heaven, stronger than death! What! Mercy for all? for Zaccheus, a public robber? for Mary Magdalene, a common harlot? Methinks I hear one say, “Then I, even I, may hope for mercy!” (from Wesley's sermon "Salvation by Faith", III.6; quoted in Derek J. Tidball, Builders & Fools: Leadership the Bible way. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1999, 31).
