America’s First Female Black Rabbi

Alysa Stanton Becomes First Female Black Rabbi. She’s actually  the first African-American female rabbi in the world.
Click on the link below to follow her story with Time:
Introducing America’s First Black, Female Rabbi

By David Kaufman Saturday, Jun. 06, 2009
 
Congratulations Rabbi Stanton! Tend God’s flock.

 Her interview with Essence: Alysa Stanton: First Black Female Rabbi on Following [...]

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We begin with Prof. Dave Black ’s observation, “A Christian is expected not only to think well but to do good, and to fail in the latter is to fail in the former. He also remarks, Jesus’ words, “Greater love has no man than this, that he should lay down his life for his friends,” are [...]

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: A review

 

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings, Tremper Longman III & Peter Enns (eds). $ 37.80. pp.967.
A book review
Product Details

Hardcover: 967 pages
Publisher:IVP Academic (June 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830817832
ISBN-13: 978-0830817832
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 2.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds

 Below I present a short review with an emphasis of the unique features of this reference [...]

Babylon Ruins Reopen in Iraq

Click here to view photographs, and the site of the ancient city of Babylon and here to read the article by Steve Lee Myers.
“Time long ago eroded the sun-dried bricks that shaped ancient Babylon, the city of Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, where Daniel read the writing on the wall and Alexander the Great died.”
Source: The New [...]

Early Jewish Christian Appropriation of the Hebrew Bible

Enn has written a helpful post entitled: “Hey, Get Away from My Bible!“ Christian Appropriation of a Jewish Bible as a response to a recent email he received from an agnostic reader. Here are some observations he makes:
The first Christians handled their Bible in a way that helped them make sense of this astounding [...]

Interview with Peter Enns

 

 
Peter Enns is interviewed on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane.  (HT: Finitum non capax infiniti) I still haven’t got through the book yet. In the interview Peter summarizes the content of the book.  At any rate, the interview is quite helpful . If you have the time listen to it.