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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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Bible’s Buried Secrets on YouTube! God’s Wife Makes A Late Come-Back.

Episode 2 of Francesca Stavrakopoulou‘s recent BBC2 series, The Bible’s Buried Secrets is available, for the moment, on YouTube: When submitted to rigorous analysis, the biblical texts actually reveal quite another story. I think that the evidence now shows that the … Continue reading

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Final Episode of The Bible’s Buried Secrets – BBC2 – Francesca Stavrakopoulou

For those of you in the UK, here’s the third and final episode of BBC2′s The Bible’s Buried Secrets, hosted by University of Exeter’s Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou. In the final episode of her series re-examining conventional readings of the Bible, she argues … Continue reading

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Episode 2 of The Bible’s Buried Secrets – BBC2 – Francesca Stavrakopoulou

For those of you in the UK, here’s Episode 2 of BBC2′s The Bible’s Buried Secrets, hosted by University of Exeter’s Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou. The episode takes a look at Asherah, the wife of Yahweh in pre-monotheistic “Israelite” religion, that … Continue reading

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Francesca Stavrakopoulou – God’s Wife?

In the current BBC series, The Bible’s Buried Secrets, Francesca Stavrakopoulou has managed to do what others, such as William Dever (Did God Have a Wife?), have failed to do: make the general public aware that ancient ‘Israelites’ or Judeans once thought … Continue reading

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Episode 1 of The Bible’s Buried Secrets – BBC2 – Francesca Stavrakopoulou

For those of you in the UK, or who can pretend you’re in the UK, here’s Episode 1 of BBC2′s The Bible’s Buried Secrets, hosted by University of Exeter’s Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou. It turns out that the famous old Bible … Continue reading

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