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April 23, 2012 No comments

After several false starts I believe I now have 5 minute Bible working on iTunes :)

Please let me know if you have difficulty finding/getting it, I believe a search for “5 minute Bible” under “podcasts” will show it.

I have also created a Facebook “page” for 5 minute Bible, please consider “liking” the page, at Stu’s suggestion I am experimenting with “video” versions of the podcasts for the Facebook page. The idea is you can if you want listen while you “do Facebook“… again please let me know if this is helpful and worth the effort…

 

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Recycling: What is the Bible? (Part 1)

November 18, 2011 No comments

Detail from sculpture in the church of San Moise in Venice (from photo by Dennis Jarvis)

How do we picture Scripture? That is what is/are the (unconscious) models in our heads as we read and use the Bible?
This ‘cast refers particularly to Gen 18:20ff. and Amos 7.

How did God reveal Scripture, by dictation as with Moses, by some less sharp inspiration as seems to have been the case for prophets? And why do the four gospels not all sound alike?

Here is the audio: What is the Bible (Part 1)

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Things have been very busy for a while now, so I thought I’d recycle some old podcasts. This one and its follow up, to come, were done back in 2007 when this podcast was pretty new, and I think the topic is one that bears repeating ;)

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Holy Week podcasting

April 17, 2011 1 comment

Since (at least Western) Christians this week leading to the celebration of the resurrection on Easter Day by first remembering the events of the days leading up to Jesus’ death, and remember his crucifixion on Friday, I will not be podcasting any of my “Humour in the Bible” series this week. Rather I will repeat Week 14 from the E100 series. (If you heard them the first time I am sorry, but others no doubt missed them then…)

Humor in the Former Prophets will resume after Easter…

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Our bach is now for Sale

December 31, 2009 2 comments
Please excuse one post not related to audio talks about biblical study, but while we’ve been in Thailand our son Thomas and his wife Melissa have been hard at work preparing the family bach for sale. They have finished and it is on the market.

Part of the view from the deck

We are all sad, but need to sell it to pay for a new home outside Tauranga. Thomas and Melissa have done a superb job of renovating, so that it not only looks smart, but is also much more convenient and comfortable.


From the convenient new kitchen to the living and dining area.

They have renewed and replaced to give almost new kitchen and bathroom, as well as new wool carpet throughout and new paint, even the roof.

We wish we could buy it ourselves ;)



One of four Bedrooms.

So, if you know someone who would like to buy a beach home with superb views that simply cannot be built out as it is right on the waterfront and most of the nearer view is the Awhitu Regional Park. Just 1hr 15mins (or less depending on traffic and speed) from Central Auckland and less from the motorway, within an easy coastal walk from the beautiful beaches of the Awhitu regional park, just point them to us (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=262830520)!

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October 20, 2009 No comments

In case anyone misses the comment deleted from the post below (it was spam from a “Christian” commercial publisher) here is an alternative that will cost you nothing!

Experience the power of scripture in a whole new way with PodBible Audio Bible! Listen in your car, mp3 player or with your family and hear the Bible come alive like you never have before.

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Bible study in mother tongues

November 1, 2008 No comments
Here’s my idea for helping people make Bible study resources available in their mother tongues – and (of course) they are audio Bible study resources!

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Self-referentiality and openness in online biblical studies

July 2, 2008 2 comments
Having just posted about the (no longer MIA) Biblical Studies Carnival ?? I then find myself double tagged for the 11111: The Binary Biblical Studies Carnival Meme which is far too many numbers and indeed writing systems for numbers for my poor little head :( I say double tagged, since my first and real tagger Biblical Studies and Technological Tools actually tagged me on 5 Minute Bible, but I just don’t have time to organise a 5 or even 4 minute podcast with cynical or entertaining post titles for other, so far untagged biblical studies bloggers, and anyway, this meme was started to make up for the “missing” carnival, or at least so David the ‘pottamus Kerr claimed. So, I’ve found a very mathematical way out…

I hereby tag myself with the post: Self-referentiality and openness in online biblical studies.

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Bibleref but no markup

May 9, 2008 2 comments
For more than a decade I’ve wanted an easy way to make Bible references like these: Amos 9:7; Ruth 4:7 link to the Bible or to popup the verses cited, I put a lot of work into doing that for the Amos commentary.

Now, thanks to the nice folk at Logos, who I expect will benefit from their kindness through lots of links ;-) I have been able to add this facility to this blog, and to my others,. It automatically takes most Bible references I type and uses Sean’s clever Bibleref system to add the verse as a popup, and make the reference a link to the passage. My only two disappointments are

  • that apparently it does this without rewriting the source code for the page, so probably Google etc. will not be able to use this semantic markup :( maybe in a later implementation?
  • and that somehow though I asked for the version to be TNIV it shows up as New Living… maybe this is a temporary glitch, rather than a sign from heaven as to which really is the New Inspired Version to follow the NIV which followed the AV.
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Humour elsewhere

October 6, 2007 No comments

For those of you feeling deprived of no new episodes added to the humour in the Bible series, while you are waiting, you can head over to two posts of Lingamish’s which elicited quite an array of candidates. First was Whoa to you who laugh and then incorrigibly followed by Funny Stuff in the Bible a short post with a long tail!

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(Just Text) RSS for iTunes?

April 30, 2007 7 comments

I am trying to provide an iTunes compatible RSS feed for this material. If anyone either uses iTunes or knows a way to check such feeds could you try this one and let me know…

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