Archaic Christianity

It has been a little quiet around here lately, but it's not been because of inactivity. I've been working on several projects lately, and one of them I was hoping to finish in time to end this month with a bang, but work, sunday school prep and an almost complete inability to keep myself focused on one thing has gotten in the way. So instead of something profound or academic, I offer you something humorous. But don't worry, it is old humor, so it at least fits the theme of the blog a bit.

Over at the website for the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts we've opened up a new section for notes on individual manuscripts. If you are interested, go read the announcement on the homepage, linked to above.

The first TC Note can be found here, and is about GA 1281.

Enjoy.

While I was in hurricane land, I did take some time to read. After all, you have to put down the chainsaw every once in a while. I finished Whose Bible Is It? by Jaroslav Pelikan. At first I was a little disappointed, but then I realized that it was aimed more at the beginner, so I settled in and enjoyed the book. I did learn some things, so it was worth reading. This is also the first book by Pelikan that I have read, and I may just have to read another one some day. If you are interested in how the Old Testament/Tanakh and the New Testament were formed, including how both were read and used, you may find it interesting.

I've spent the last few days in hurricane-ravished Southeast Texas. I visited family and friends in the Beaumont area to help out. I ended up helping my Dad and Granny out with fallen trees and limbs, which is always fun (okay...not really). I also visited a friend whose house was hit by storm surge. Right outside of Bridge City everything looked fine, but once you got in every yard you looked at had a large pile of sheet-rock, insulation, furniture and various belongings in the front yard. My friend's house had water in it at least four foot high. With the exception of the top four inches, his truck was completely submerged. What a mess.

Jim West is distraught over the possibility of the Large Hadron Collider destroying us all. Well, I hope that doesn't happen either! But here is some good news. To keep up with whether or not the LHC has created a black hole that would almost instantly destroy us, a website has been made to keep us updated. It is appropriately entitled "Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the Earth Yet?" Just stay tuned to that web page tomorrow and keep refreshing your browser and you will stay informed :)

FYI, I will occasionally be blogging over on the Spurgeon's Cigar blog and I just posted my first post there. The funny thing is, I don't even really know most of the people blogging there yet, so you never know if I'll agree with what the others are posting. So far the posts have been interesting at least...

Here are some various tidbits, links to things worth looking at new and old.

Random interesting stuff for the day:

I've been reading it in spurts for quite some time, but I finally finished Ehrman's Lost Christianities. If you haven't noticed, sometime I have a hard time focusing :). I will be posting the review of it tonight or tomorrow. My own thoughts are pretty well set at this point, but I'm going to take the time to read some other reviews, something I don't normally do. I will, of course, let you know when I have it posted.