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Otagosh: February 2015
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Sunday, 22 February 2015. Modigliani, Meeham and Mouskouri. I'm an obsessive collector of classical music, but I'm also into sixties folk. Others may groan at the thought of Peter, Paul and Mary. Pete Seeger or The Seekers. But I'm in my element. Ja, I know it dates me but I'll happily extend to Nana Mouskouri, The Kingston Trio. And Joan Baez. My folk CD collection is extremely modest, but hey, this is the age of Pandora. So that's no issue - and no expenses incurred. This month it's Norman Meeham.
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Otagosh: The Journal - the Curate's Egg issue
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015. The Journal - the Curate's Egg issue. The expression "the curate's egg" is believed to date from an issue of the satirical magazine Punch. In 1895. A curate is served a bad egg (on toast? For breakfast by the bishop. Ever the diplomat, the curate remarks that "parts of it are excellent.". Which brings us once again to the 175th issue of The Journal. Parts of it are indeed excellent. A reprint of a 1996 article (appearing in In Transition. By the late Gary Fakhoury. While it's n...
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Otagosh: Red in Claw and (von) Fange
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Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Red in Claw and (von) Fange. I came across Erich von Fange's In Search of the Genesis World. In 2010. It's a creationist text, and I hadn't tackled one of those in a very long time. Maybe, I thought, they've got some better arguments to offer than the ones I was pilloried with as a youth. In Search of the Genesis World: Debunking the Evolution Myth. The Bible is shown to be a faithful framework for the study of the ancient world. So I settled down and diligently worked my way thro...
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Otagosh: April 2015
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Thursday, 30 April 2015. Barth - the Enigma (der vierte Teil). Protestant altar in Cologne during the 1930s. There is a good deal of nonsense made of the faithfulness of the Confessing Church during the Third Reich. The story goes that the German Protestant church was subverted by the "German Christian" movement which eagerly promoted Nazism. Of that there's no doubt, the record is quite unambiguous. Even within the so-called "church struggle" between German Christians and the Confessing Church for contr...
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Otagosh: Paul, the Great non-Communicator
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Monday, 10 August 2015. Paul, the Great non-Communicator. No, no, that's starting to make sense! 8220;very hard going, and the translator faces a formidably difficult task. A single phrase in Romans 5:12, for example, may have as many as eleven different meanings, and the jury is still out on which of them best suits the context. At times, I have to say, I have despaired of making Romans intelligible to a modern reader.”. Did he eat the first-century equivalent of ham on rye? How much do we really unders...
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Otagosh: Stewie Griffin is God
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Wednesday, 14 January 2015. Stewie Griffin is God. Exodus: Gods and Kings. What can one say? In print you can isolate the nicer themes from the Exodus story and impute nobleness to the cause. Exodus and human liberation, a low humming of African-American Spirituals in the background. The actual narrative is much darker than that. Plagues, suffering, death. God, it so happens, is portrayed as a petulant child, Malak (Isaac Andrews). Stewie Griffin enfleshed! Is this your god? Posted by Gavin R. Anyway, th...
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Otagosh: A Not-so German Requiem
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015. A Not-so German Requiem. Classical music lovers - of which I count myself one of the lesser in sophistication - tend to have a "personal canon" of composers and compositions which press their buttons. Amongst my own "top 100" I've a special place for Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. Until recently however, I'd not heard it sung in English. There's an argument that Ein deutsches Requiem. Brahms' Requiem sets aside the traditional, and somewhat depressing, Catholic formula for texts ...
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Otagosh: June 2015
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Monday, 29 June 2015. Let them read Barth! Ex-fundamentalists (a tribe to which I belong) often get a lot of stick from the theoristocrats, those who have attained a tenured place at the top table in Christian discourse without acquiring the deep scars that come from living through a biblicist nightmare. And hey, all power to them. But I have a problem when these privileged few summarily discount the experiences of those not so fortunate. This is a world the ivory-towered theoristocrats seem in denial ab...
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Otagosh: The LXX and the New Testament
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Friday, 31 July 2015. The LXX and the New Testament. I really like this chart from Yuriy and Inna's blog. It demonstrates the dependence of New Testament writings on, not the Hebrew Bible and the much trumpeted Masoretic Text, but the Greek Septuagint (LXX). Yuriy's series of posts, Why I Don't Trust The Bible. Is worth checking out. He describes himself as a recovering Pentecostal fundamentalist. HT to James McGrath for the link on Twitter.). Posted by Gavin R. 1 August 2015 at 03:31. The salient questi...
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