to this blog.
We’ve had our schedule a bit interrupted by Mark’s cancer treatments, but I’ve been steadily making my way through a stack of books to review for you. Here’s what you can look forward to in the coming days:
- Completion of my review of War in the Bible and Terrorism in the 21st Century (Part One is here)
- Another book attempting to deal with violence in the Bible: Walter Brueggemann’s Divine Presence amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua
- Jo Ann Hackett’s soon-to-be-published (by Hendrickson) A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
- A few OT survey books, one takes a comparative approach, the other a socio-literary approach
- Something for the Ugaritic fans 🙂
And as a special treat, I’m working on a post that explains the basics of the physics and bio-chemistry going on in Mark’s radiation and chemo treatments. Stay tuned to find out the low-down on oncology radiation and why not all chemo is equal (and what Mark’s chemo is attempting to do). We’ve just finished Day 11 of 28 of the radiation/chemo regime. Just taking things one day at a time.
There are a few other books in the queue, but the above list will hopefully be enough to entice you to keep checking back.
I somewhere found a thesis in which the person who wrote it traces 3 approaches to “herem” in the OT from, Kaiser, Craigie, and Longman. It’s a pretty good paper and an interesting light into how some evangelical theologians handle violence and herem in the OT. Anything like that ring a bell? There isn’t a cover page so I’m not sure who wrote it. William Lyon maybe?