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a wake-up call: Howard Dayton, Your Money Counts. The Biblical Guide to Earning, Spending, Saving, Investing, Giving, and Getting Out of Debt

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Two parts warning about the corrosive effect of debt, one part encouragement that such slavery can be overcome, Howard Dayton’s manual to a better way of living is an almost constitutional document in the Christian financial ministry movement. Dayton is the founder of Crown Financial Ministries, the benchmark institution in what has become an effort to counteract the personal indebtedness that increasingly pervades Western economies. (more…)

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buy ten copies and give them to your friends: Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Friedman wraps up his book by talking about four dead men and what they must do if peace is to come to the troubled slice of land still fought over by Israelis and Palestinians. Yitzhak Rabin, Yasir Arafat, Hafez Assad, and Jordan’s King Hussein were very much alive a decade ago when Friedman wrote an appendix to this still-riveting work, though the shadow of Rabin’s assasin was almost upon him. This casts an eery veneer over Friedman’s sensible thoughts on shifting power and the need for all partners to ‘buy a ticket’ if peace has any hope of overcoming the region’s deeply etched pessimisms, even if one now needs to shift the burden of choice to the successors of these four men, only three of whom had the good fortune to die in their own beds. (more…)

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the music that elevates Cruise’s game: Minority Report (motion picture soundtrack)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

You only have to listen through John Williams’ intensely spooky score a few times to realize that it is the emotional potency of film music in the Williams style that makes Tom Cruise and his colleagues on this Spielberg sci-fi flick seem as edgy as they do. The acting without the music would be another matter, good but not great, tense but not heartstopping. (more…)

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It’s getting harder to sneer these days: Condé Nast Portfolio

Posted in reseña, tagged , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Man, this is getting tough. It used to be so easy to pick up a thick glossy weighted down in Bimmer and Movado watch ads and get right down to the business of sneering at the vanity of it all. (more…)

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rumors of demise are overstated: Gramophone

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Conventional wisdom and damned statistics conspire to persuade that the population of classical music listeners is declining measurably year upon year. You’d never know it from reading GRAMOPHONE. Readers are typically devotees of the musical form and not about to let the rest of the world persuade them that their devotion is misplaced or–horrors–out of date. GRAMOPHONE obliges them with passionate coverage of the artists, the music, and the industry. (more…)

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endearing writing from an accomplished story-teller: Meir Shalev, The Blue Mountain

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The Eastern European emigrants to Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century assured that what would become known as the ‘Second Aliyah’ would bear a Yiddish accent, a socialist ethic, and a hard-nosed disdain for the religious Zionism of some fellow travelers. Meir Shalev provides us an angle on their experience that makes it difficult to reduce their exploits to those of secular saints and impossible not to love them for their deeply human foibles. (more…)

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thoughtful primer on preaching from a master preacher: Elizabeth Achtemeier, Preaching from the Old Testament

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 20, 2007| 2 Comments »

The author of these thirty-two short chapters begins and ends with the assumption that problems we experience with the Old Testament are our problem, not the Bible’s. This subordination of the Bible reader to the well-weathered book he holds in his hand opens doors, not to forced harmonizations of problematic passages but to fresh reappraisal of difficult texts on their own terms. (more…)

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explicit methodology, for good and for ill: Peter D. Quinn-Miscall, Reading Isaiah. Poetry and Vision

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Perhaps it requires a breakdown of certainties and ‘assured results’ like the one that has reigned in Isaiah studies for two decades to produce a book like this. In the wake of a century of historical reconstruction of the stages by which the book of Isaiah is alleged to have grown, Peter Quinn-Miscall is clear about what he feels we do not know. His ‘new way’ of reading Isaiah is meant to allow readers to make their own decisions about the ambiguities and contradictions which he believes characterise this long and eminently quotable Old Testament book. (more…)

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an underrated work by a first-rate Old Testament theologian: R. W. L. Moberly, The Old Testament of the Old Testament (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The republication of Moberly’s 1992 study in an accessible paperback provides a further look at this textually-focussed work of Old Testament theology at a time when the reconfiguration within Pentateuchal studies has had another decade to run it course. The ‘revelations of the divine name’ in Exodus chapters three and six are key texts for classical Pentateuchal criticism. It is there that such an approach to the text finds one of the most notorious disjunctions between the ‘Yahwist’ source, on the one hand, and the ‘Elohist’ and ‘Priestly’ sources, on the other. (more…)

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sensible and impassioned erudition: Paul J. Achtemeier, Inspiration and Authority. Nature and Function of Christian Scripture

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Nearly two decades after initial publication under a different title, this lightly revised and expanded second edition renews Paul Achtemeier’s irenic arbitration of a discussion which tends in more acerbic directions. In seven accessible chapters, he seeks to understand how the Bible is different. (more…)

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