Submission Part I - Theo Van Gogh Tribute

Posted by Quixie at 3:33 PM

This is the short film that inspired Mohammed Bouyeri to murder Van Gogh in the early morning of 2 November 2004, in Amsterdam, in front of ...

Reading the Unreadable

Posted by Quixie at 7:43 AM

. Some ancient scrolls are so deteriorated that unfolding them would completely destroy them, would pulverize them. Here's a link to a c...

the problem with P-52 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 7:24 PM

I have a cousin named Miriam. She has had a distinctive handwriting for as long as I can remember. It's the prettiest writing I have e...

a year short and a dollar late . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:36 AM

I stopped staring at television sets 'round '91. Those were the days of Desert Storm and its thousand points of lights in the sky, t...

the evolution of confusion ...(Dan Dennett on "deepities")

Posted by Quixie at 10:33 PM

This guy seldom fails to get a good "amen" out of me.

AJLevine on the historical Jesus . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:58 PM

During a program in which Amy Jill Levine was interviewed on the topic "Who Was Jesus of Nazareth" she says: In terms of what I d...

open question for NT scholars #5 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:34 AM

Thinking of textual blunders, an example ocurred to me: Matt 27. The gospel-we-know-as-Matthew's narrative about the downfall of Judas I...

nitpicking Religulous . . .

Posted by Quixie at 4:05 PM

Two of the bloggers that I sometimes read (Greg Boyd and James McGrath ) have done reviews of the film Religulous recently. I watched the ...

a fool on the hill . . . well done

Posted by Quixie at 12:20 PM

. . I have been thinking about Al Franken's final victory over Norm Coleman, so I watched the Ken Burns documentary film about Congres...

non-sequitur of the day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 10:26 PM

I absolutely adore Aretha Franklin's singing voice. It soothes my savage breast. She made a gospel recording some time in the mid sevent...

la YiYiYi, que nos dice . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:53 PM

I've watched this video a bunch of times. When Pablo Picasso watched La Lupe perform for the first time, he said, "One word: genius...

a geomorphic linguistic riddle . . .

Posted by Quixie at 10:05 PM

On September 23rd, 1493, Cristobal Colón, who was on his second trip to the "new world," had made it to what is now the island...

suggestions for a pope . . .

Posted by Quixie at 6:03 PM

The radiocarbon tests performed on some bone fragments from the recently excavated sarcophagus traditionally held to be the apostle Paul...

Codex Sinaiticus manuscript digitized and online

Posted by Quixie at 2:49 PM

It's rare that one gets to look at a fourth century Bible manuscript . Way cool.

the battle continues . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:30 PM

Tempe Town Lake catfish will be surprised to hear that Oscar Meyers scored higher than Hebrew Nationals in a taste test done recently invol...