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November | 2012 | Odd Oklahoma
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Exploring the weirdness that makes this place interesting. Stay updated via RSS. The Oklahoma Gazette stole my name. HB 2625 and the Oklahoma Governor’s Race. Oklahoma Politicians on Twitter. Back from the dead. Archive for November, 2012. Scientology in Oklahoma, Part 1 of 3. Posted: November 30, 2012 in religion. Case in point, this post and the next two will be dealing with Scientology and its presence in Oklahoma. Don’t let the name fool you, Scientology is a religion. The faith was founded by scienc...
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June | 2013 | Odd Oklahoma
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Exploring the weirdness that makes this place interesting. Stay updated via RSS. The Oklahoma Gazette stole my name. HB 2625 and the Oklahoma Governor’s Race. Oklahoma Politicians on Twitter. Back from the dead. Archive for June, 2013. FreeOK coverage, Part 3. Posted: June 28, 2013 in Uncategorized. Besides to book tables for the authors and t-shirt tables for FreeOK merchandise, three organizations coughed up the dough to get to pass out their literature. Is the one-stop shop for getting help. The final...
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Free Source Criticism eBooks | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. Free Source Criticism eBooks. The Documents of the Hexateuch. W E Addis, 1893. The entire JE text of the Torah the Book of Joshua, with a lengthy introduction and copious footnotes. Helpfully notes contemporary scholarly consensus, or lack thereof. Introduction to the Old Testament. John Edgar McFadyen, 1906. Informative book-by-book overview of the OT, with a strong focus on the sources. Who Wrote the Bible? Richard Friedman, 1989. Much more to come! Enter your comment here.
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Ten Commandments Wrong Ones: Pastor | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. Lying the Good Lie. Deathmatch: Darby vs WEB →. Ten Commandments Wrong Ones: Pastor. July 17, 2011. Hi, I’m busy this week reading a lot of Proverbs. As filler, here is an article my cousin in Missouri forwarded to me. Real update coming soon! Ten Commandments Wrong Ones: Pastor. Hebron, Missouri- Have you been obeying the Ten Commandments? According to a local pastor, the answer could be “no.”. Cafferty announced the new Commandments to his congregation. Initially the Pasto...
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All The Ites | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. This page will, ultimately, be an exhaustive catalogue of every peoples in the Bible. Because this is such a large project, the page will remain up as a “work in progress” as it is expanded and refined. Please let me know of any errors. All names are given in their KJV spelling first, just to adhere to some standard. Hebrew names are given in plural if possible. Killed by Saul (1st Samuel 15). E’s term for Canaanites? Do not confuse with Assyrians. Do not confuse with Syrians.
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Lying the Good Lie | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. Ten Commandments Wrong Ones: Pastor →. Lying the Good Lie. June 20, 2011. I’m bending the rules here. This blog is ostensibly about the Bible from an atheist’s perspective. But this post isn’t about the Bible. Hey it’s my blog and I guess I can break my non-existent rules. This post is about an article from this weeks The New York Times Magazine (the sunday glossy with the alienating ads for luxury apartments), an infuriating piece titled “ Living the Good Lie. Because it...
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Special Projects | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. While the bulk of this blog is and will be the painful chapter-by-chapter exploration of the Biblical texts, I do plan on supplementing this with more focused distillations of Biblical trivia that may or may not be of use to anyone ever. Here are some I’m planning. Some might end up as regular posts. A Quick and Dirty Guide to the Documentary Hypothesis. The Names of YHWH. Exploration of the Hebrew titles for their deity; Why YHWH is written so weirdly. The basics of Hebrew ...
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Deathmatch: Darby vs WEB | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. Ten Commandments Wrong Ones: Pastor. Deathmatch: Darby vs WEB. December 27, 2011. Which is not finished, and the World English Bible. Which is also not finished, an update of the American Standard Version. (Which is an update of an update of the KJV.). There is, of course, the original KJV, but I’m not a fool. So my two best options seem to be the WEB and Darby. But both of these are problematic to a degree. WEB is the product of evangelical missionaries. I chose this for it...
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Progress | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. This page records my overall progress in reading and blogging the Bible. Once finished, each book will be linked to the category page containing all its posts. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. I Kings, II Kings. I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel. Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. I'm spendin...
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Carnival’d! | Better Than Esdras
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Free Source Criticism eBooks. Found in the Ground #1: The Mesha Stele. Lying the Good Lie →. May 20, 2011. Through bored link-surfing I quite randomly stumbled upon this post. A blog carnival at Dr. Jim’s Thinking Shop. And/or Secular Bible Blog. Check it out. Now. There’s a wide mix of content, sceptical, scholarly, evangelical manuscript analysis, revisionists (the decalogue is post-exile? Doctor Who, etc. Also, it seems the JEPD hypothesis isn’t dead after all. Working on the Elisha/Elijah post. J...
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