Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 August 2026

From Anguish Languish to English Language: Trains-lading debt Furry Tail avowed Beers into a Fairy Tale about Bears

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 It's been decades since I first posted Furry Tails to this blog, and since most of my readers are from countries other than the one in ...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

A review of David Instone-Brewer's Bible Contexts Series - Chapter 20: Cain's "wife"

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Dr. David Instone-Brewer is an eminent Bible Scholar in England, one of the experts responsible for the last tranche of changes to the NIV....
Saturday, 3 August 2019

Mushrooms and the Medical Manual

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As a thought exercise, I decided to do what the anonymous author of " Wine and the Bible " did with wine, to mushrooms. I was only...

Wine and the Bible

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So goes the title of an undated and unattributed article I found online. There's not much of the Bible in it, though; it's mostly ex...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Hurrah for Snopes!

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I've been hard on Snopes before , so I want to give credit where it is due: their article on "NASA and the missing day" is spo...
Monday, 30 June 2014

The pagan hero vs the christian conqueror

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I've written before about the warrior mindset and the pagan world view , but this is where they come together. About a year ago I sat...
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Monday, 10 March 2014

Moses the Ayoubian

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I’ve been looking at the life of Job lately, and pondering just how it fits into the general scheme of Scripture. Job itself is a fascinat...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Camels; or, WHAT could they have been smoking?

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Well, it's time for another post, and this one is about camels--or the lack thereof. What's mysterious is not that the camels were m...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Demythologizing the Santa Scripture

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I've been away from my blog since the month before last, and since I committed to posting at least once every three months until I die, ...
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