Monthly Archives: November 2011
Biblical Studies Carnival 69: Call for Submissions
Remnant of Giants extends an open invitation to any readers or writers of Biblical Studies blogs to submit posts made during the month of November 2011, for the 69th Biblical Studies Carnival. If you have read, or written, a post … Continue reading
SBL on Monday, or Eurocentric Biblical Studies
Monday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. The African-American Biblical Hermeneutics section was the absolute stand-out section of the day. Discussing a small handful of rabbinic texts that are prejudicial in some way towards blacks (texts for which … Continue reading
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SBL on Sunday, or God was not intended to be taken seriously
Sunday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. The inaugural University of Otago reception. The club was pumping, standing shoulder to shoulder with various friends, associates, current and former students and faculty, and various party-crashers. It went … Continue reading
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SBL on Saturday, or How can one continue to be a communist after Stalin?
Saturday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. In the review of Antonio Negri’s The Labor of Job, Chairman Boer was seen to shudder and convulse in his chair when Erin Runions recited the following sentence from Negri’s … Continue reading
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ETS – Wandering Through the Exhibits
The ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) is kind of nice, I’ve decided. It’s sort of like kids pretending to be grown-ups, and forming their own play-academic society, and mimicing what the real academics do. I’ve tried to be cynical about it, but who … Continue reading
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New (2011) Edition of Adrienne Mayor’s The First Fossil Hunters
In The First Fossil Hunters, Adrienne Mayor discusses dozens of examples in which ancient Greek and Roman writers and artists interpreted fossils as evidence of the existence of ancient giants. Many ancient Greeks and Romans reassembled the fossilised bones of mammoths, mastodons, and whales in … Continue reading
Filed under Books on Giants, Cryptozoology, King Og
Off to find Giants … in San Francisco
My sources report that there be Giants in San Francisco. Although I understand this is the season in which Giants hibernate, I’m off to San Francisco to find them. I’ll be hunting during the daylight hours in two main locations: ETS … Continue reading
Filed under Biblical Giants, Sport
Are you a left brain or right brain gigantologist?
H/t: Rob Skiba II, gigantologist
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More sex with fallen angels
Remnant of Giant’s post on “How Do You Know When You’re Having Sex With a Fallen Angel?” continues to be popular amongst certain readers. The seven handy hints have probably saved many a person from that awkward moment when you … Continue reading
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The Tutsi, Giants of Central Africa? Giants of Palestine?
The 20 June 1938 edition of LIFE magazine features an article on the “Watusi” of eastern central Africa, better known today as the Tutsi, inhabitants of eastern Congo, Rwanda, and Berundi. LIFE includes a handy map of the Belgian Congo … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 7 feet high, Africa's Aristocrats, Anakim, Belgian Congo, Berundi, colonialism, Comte de Gobineau, Debarim, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Deuteronomy, genocide, Hamitic, Hutu, Jeffrey Tigay, Jewish Publication Society, Joseph Arthur, JPS Tanakh Commentary, Leila Roosevelt, racism, Rudahigwa IV Mutare, Rwanda, Tutsi, Watusi, Zaire