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Archive for September, 2007

girl trouble?: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (DVD)

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If Helen of Troy possessed the face that launched a thousand ships, the young Audrey Hepburn must have been good for, say, nine hundred? (more…)

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a time to search and a time to give up: Ecclesiastes 3-4

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At times the power of a work remains latent until circumstances arrange themselves in such a way that it seems written for this moment. Such is the potency of the extended rumination that we call Ecclesiastes, after the odd name given to the presenting speaker. Worn-out moderns and post-moderns born into despair find in its pages a script of their own mind’s journey. (more…)

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the first hit of an intoxicating brew: Friends. The Complete First Season (DVD)

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Our nation’s fourth graders were not yet born when we fell for this long-shot six-member cast’s story of twenty-somethings who gather regularly in two New York City apartments and seem to own the furniture at the ‘Central Perk’ coffee house. Do you remember where you were when you first found out about Rachel, Har-Monica, Phebes, Joey, Chandler, and Ross?

Of course you do. (more…)

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the show gathers steam: Friends. The Complete Second Season (DVD)

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Season Two is still not the big machine humming at full throttle, but it was evident that Jennifer Aniston and crew were definitely on the way to something big. The writing and acting is a bit more confident than the debut season, and Chandler comes into his own in a strong supporting role. (more…)

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looking over Jesus’ shoulder as he reads his Jewish Bible: Christopher J. H. Wright, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

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When scholars write popular books, it is sometimes evident that they are speaking a strange tongue. Chris Wright’s semi-popular biblical theology does not suffer this deficiency. Wright wears his scholarship lightly and writes with a good preacher’s respect for his audience’s intelligence and lack of awareness of the issues that detain and entertain the specialist. The result is a solid and enriching example of a mature hermeneutic that takes the Old Testament seriously in its own right, and then seeks in it a witness to Jesus. (more…)

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an uncommonly steady gaze: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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I didn’t fall in love with this Pulitzer-prize-winning debut until the final chapter, but the glow of this delayed romance now reflects back upon the chapter-long stories that preceded it. Lahiri writes from the space between the old country and the America to which generations of transients have emigrated, ceasing in the process to belong entirely to their origin or their destination. (more…)

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Hitting their stride: Friends. The Complete Third Season (DVD)

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Talk about hitting your stride! That’s what the writers and cast of Friends accomplished in this memorable third season. (more…)

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an important argument from a master contrarian: Niall Ferguson, Colossus. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

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This troubling book by a prolific scholar of empire dissects the American version of that phenomenon in eight well-researched chapters and a conclusion. Ominously, his first four chapters are grouped under the title ‘Rise’ and the last four under ‘Fall?’. Ferguson’s personal interest in empire and his unusually positive appreciation of its role in human history is best understood by first reading Empire. The rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power.
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a snapshot of the 1980s IOSCS and LXX lexicography: Takamitsu Muraoka, Melbourne Symposium on Septuagint Lexicography (Septuagint and Cognate Studies Series)

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The lexicographer T. Muraoka gathers in this slim volume a selection of papers that demonstrate the concern to upgrade the tools and methodologies available to Septuagintalists that was expressed among the members of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies in the late 1980s. (more…)

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a plausible reconstruction: Raymond F. Person, Jr., The Deuteronomic School. History, Social Setting, and Literature (Studies in Biblical Literature, Number 2)

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Largely a rebuttal to claims of ‘pan-deuteronomism’, Person writes at a time when many assumptions about things deuteronom(ist)ic that have seemed settled since Noth are openly questioned in the perhaps unpromising search for a new consensus. An introduction (pp. 1-16) brings the reader up to date on the proliferating meanings assigned terminology of which the definition once appeared to have been agreed, as well as on the tendency to multiply redactional layers in the Deuteronomistic literature beyond the two (Harvard School) and three (Gttingen School) that until recently seemed a sufficient menu from which to choose. Against the perceived expansionistic tendencies of deuteronomistic influence and redactions, some scholars have leveled accusations of ‘pan-Deuteronism’. In the face of this, Person defends a relatively broad definition of Deuteronomic (his preferred term) influence and literatures, as well as proposing ‘a way out of the confusion’ by means of a four-angled approach that considers (a) text-critical controls on redaction criticism, (b) post-exilic Deuteronomic redaction, (c) evidence from ANE scribal schools, and (4) the Deuteronomic school’s social location in an oral culture. (more…)

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