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Mad Men Takes a Second Look
Mad Men’s Season Seven, Episode Seven (“Waterloo”), the half-season finale, may look a bit like a rerun…
Heartless
Ancient Israelites offered the inner organs of sacrificial animals – entrails, kidneys, a portion of the liver.…
Blood and Water
Sacramental interpretations of the blood and water from Jesus’ side are too tempting to resist. We ought…
Burning Offerings in Israel and Elsewhere
Erhard Gerstenberger (Leviticus, 34) claims that “The completely burned sacrifice is probably an Israelite peculiarity.” James Watts (Ritual…
Table Among Enemies
It’s one of the most famous lines in one of the most famous songs: “You spread a…
Distributism’s Real Problem
Gregory and Peter, I’m afraid the real reason distributism goes nowhere is because there is a question…
Bursting the Blog Bubble
I link this blog simply as a piece of light entertainment and because it refers to three…
Distributism is not Agrarianism
I believe Br. Gregory Pine’s piece, “Why Is Distributism So Intolerable?”, was meant to be a defense…
First Links — 5.30.14
Life and Times of a Libertine Christopher Lasch, The Baffler Long Overdue: A New Anthology of Pregnancy…
Get Me to the Church
Hosea (2:14-20) allegorizes the exodus as a love story. Yahweh lures Israel from Egypt to the wilderness,…
Peace System
If we stay with the strict terminology of Leviticus, the word “sacrifice” (zabach) is not a generic…
Numerological Patterns in Leviticus
As Wilfried Warning points out in his engaging study, Literary Artistry in Leviticus, the book of Leviticus uses…
Bloody Israel
Leo Oppenheim (Ancient Mesopotamia, 191-2) observed that the “difference that separates the sacrificial rituals in [Mesopotamia and the…
Nature and Grace in Genesis
Too much of the discussion of nature and the supernatural is conducted in the idiom of Aristotle…
Dracophage
Israel was forbidden to eat serpent-like creatures who were in the curse-prosecuting dust, crawling on their “bellies”…
