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First Links — 7.10.14
How Evangelical Christians Do Money: On Tithing Ester Bloom, The Billfold Holy Relics: A Brand Parody T-Shirt…
Dialectic of Realism
Frederic Jameson’s Antinomies of Realism continues the argument he made a couple of decades ago in Signatures of…
Piketty and Politics
Duncan Kelly argues in his lengthy TLS review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century that the…
Resistant Rest
Walter Brueggemann’s Sabbath As Resistance is, like most of Brueggemann’s other work, bracing and frustrating in equal measure.…
Latin American and the Bilbao Effect
Justin McGuirk argues in his Radical Cities that Latin American was the site of the “greatest experiments in…
Sacrifice for Sacrifice
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, liturgy for liturgy. Isaiah warns those who forsake Yahweh by preparing…
The Music of the Text
Yahweh will take some of the clusters from Judah to make new wine (Isaiah 65:8-9). Those who…
First Links — 7.9.14
Quitting the Cancer Battle D. G. Myers, Good Letters Know Nothing Michael Robbins, Slate Beyond Belief: A…
Jew
Balaam tries to curse Israel but the Lord turns the curse to blessing. He alludes to the…
Tabernacled Among Us
In his history of Mesopotamian religion, Treasures of Darkness, Thorkild Jacobsen calls attention to the intimate relationship between…
Postmodernism
I offer a brief assessment of postmodernism at the Trinity House web site.
Oriental Africa
“Sensing that Africa had been cast aside by the West in the wake of the Cold War,”…
Speak, Hear, Do
At the creation, God spoke and “did” or “made” (‘asah) things. God speaks again to Judah, with…
Platonic Purification
Socrates’s discussion of purity in the Sophist treats the concept in a refined fashion. He admits the…
Freedoms At Odds
In the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision, argument on the issue has raged with heightened vehemence.…
