While reading background material for these Old Testament books, I’ve noticed that the Prophets all have what the fashion mavens currently thronging New York would probably call “a look”. There’s a standard-issue beard for these guys. Naturally, we don’t have photographs of the Prophets. So it’s possible that the samey-ness of the beards is a [...]
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Beards of the Prophets
Posted in Free Association, Isaiah, Light Reading, Moses, Pop Culture Echoes, Prophets and Prophecy, Silliness, tagged beards of the prophets, prophets beards, Silliness on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Getting Biblical
Posted in Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Genesis, Hebrew Literature, Isaiah, Scripture or Spiritual Writing, The Bible, The Book of Job, The Pentateuch, The Torah on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the next few weeks, I’ll be reading some of the most widely-quoted and alluded-to books of (what we Christians call) the Old Testament. After that, I’m off to the races on a number of other sacred writings in cultures that I, frankly, have little to no experience with. So if I say something profoundly [...]
