They only thing I mean in that title is that Daniel who blogs here – a great blog, by the way – has been interviewed by Craig.
They only thing I mean in that title is that Daniel who blogs here – a great blog, by the way – has been interviewed by Craig.
Made ya look! NSFW
The disreputable dilettante Tom Finland, that famous Irishman who pollutes every biblioblog with his homoerotic and phallocentric feces of comments wants me to apologize. He says, in part,
“Just a note Joel, I would not press this “trash” that Rod has put up, again this is simply not Christian, and now my wife has seen it, and she will simply go liable, is this is continued! I could care less myself, but then I don’t speak or live by myself. Lets just say she has legal experience. And beware of a woman’s wrath!
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*A word, saying I am sorry works wonders with my dear wife. She is Irish, and she is very upset!
As Joel rightfully observed, Manly Man Tom Finland (who is a complementarian) has all of a sudden decided that his wife wears the pants in his family. Oh, so he’s egalitarian now? I coulda sworn that these Reformed complementarian types were “manly men” who stood up for themselves, talked for themselves, and watched Mixed Martial Arts (*cough cough* homoerotic *cough cough*). First, Father Robert does the cowardly thing and bashes bashes Joel Watts on Jim West’s blog! He’s supposed to be [SUPPOSEDLY] a former Royal Marine, and he’s not even man enough to do that on these parts of the blogosphere. I call coward, and I call bull crap!
On the issue of sharing the Tom Finland post by Roland Boer, Father Robert for the first time has promised legal action, yes on this very post, he said ne’r word to Roland Boer, the author about any law suit. What does this tell me? Our former “Marine” remains a coward. He’s not even man enough to bring legal action against the man who wrote the post originally what is now 2 years ago! (but really wouldn’t be, in reality).
Father Robert is a woman-hating coward, he has proved that over the years with his arguments with Suzanne. There’s no doubt about that. His online actions lead me to suspect that he is overcompensating to live up to the complementarian vision of masculinity by being an angry, dickish, scaredy-cat piece of douche-baggery. If you think this post is a little tasteless, good on you! But, I have gotten sickened by Father Robert’s cyber-bullying and it was about time someone confronted him about it. Of course, what matters for Father Robert is not the original Greek of passages in the New Testament in the passages that deal with the lives of women (with often negative and oppressive implications), but to recognize the English Translations as THE Word of God. A ridiculous proposition, if you ask any reasonable person not named Tom Finland.
Of course, Father Robert recognizes that male bloggers have been too kind to Suzanne a woman: “I have noted too that most of the male bloggers have been very kind to you also”–yah, apparently, she shouldn’t be allowed to comment on blogs due to her gender. Perhaps women should allow their husbands to make comments on blogs for them, right Tom? Would that work? Women should be kept quiet in church, and even in on-line churches, aka, biblio-blogs. Tom Finland, the (phallo)logical thinking religious person that he is resorts to calling people he disagrees with names because he has no other way of arguing rationally. Of course I’ve resorted to polemics in this post, but this post is a rant and an attempt at humor at someone’s whose worldview is anything but funny. I won’t link to Tom Finland’s “blog” but it’s quite obvious that in his worldview, only the opinion of white males matters (no offense white people or males).
*This post was written in self-defense*
I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Hauge at the last SBL (the one in San Francisco, where I was able to attend the Markan literary sources seminar, because that is about the only session – that and the Biblioblogger session, am I right? – worth attending (well, those at the Rhetoric sessions and other New Testament sessions))… and I didn’t know he blogged…
You can find out about him here… and encourage him to blog more, here…
My paper is almost done and I am almost ready to submit it… to the Seminar… almost ready… I think I’ve rearranged it numerous times, tried to head it off…
Wait… this post isn’t about me…
Well, maybe not the last part, but I intend the first point.
I’m coming for you Patheos. I’m going to take you down. My valiant crew of Browncoats (my growing list of contributors) and I will be taking on the Alliance – Patheos – in 2012.
I intend to stop the signal.
During this time of year, Christmas lists abound with gifts for that special someone… And, who or what is more special than a biblioblogger? So, if you are looking for gift ideas…. for those folks… here you go…
For Jim West,
For Jeremy Bailey, Scott’s nice twin -
For James McGrath – a book about the important things in life…
For ALL of the bloggers at Near Emmaus,
Because, well… they share everything….
For Scott Bailey…
And while he is not a favorite, nor a biblioblogger, I thought we would get Ken Ham something too:
I want to submit a paper for next years SBL… thoughts? Suggestions? What are the requirements?
This is Biblical Studies Carnival no. 69 – showcasing the best of biblical studies blogging for the month of November 2011:
Giants, Conferences, Important Issues in Biblical Studies, Early Judaism, Early Christianity, Text and Translation, and Biblioblogging.
Have fun!
via Biblical Studies Carnival 69 (November 2011) | Remnant of Giants.

This is a repost from last year, but since the Monday after Black Friday is usually the day for cyber deals, or Cyber Monday, I thought that I would repost it. I’ve had this on my sidebar for a bit now, and I hope that others are using it to help their favorite bibliobloggers – I mean, other than me
I love to buy Southern Gospel songs from James McGrath’s Amazon Store. I don’t know why, but it makes me smile.
Sure, sometimes I cheat on Jeremy’s store and go with McGrath’s for books (but I promise, Jeremy, it is only by accident), but I need to also spend some money at Jason’s and T.C.’s and maybe even Fr. Stephen‘s. And don’t forget about Jeff. And have you heard about Chris’? And the other Chris (Brady)?
Why? Because bloggers with stores get some commission money when someone buys something from their store. This helps with self-education or buying things for others, etc… So, as the holidays approach , and you go to Amazon for your shopping pleasure, be kind and visit Amazon through one of these stores, or mine which is on the right side bar. Go through one of these stores and anything you buy will route some spending cash from Amazon to your favorite biblioblogger’s pocket.
Now, ask yourself – if you have to spend money at Amazon, why not do it in such a way as to help out bibliobloggers?
I was fortunate enough to have breakfast with Dr. Allan R. Bevere, author and professor – and pastor – along with my lovely wife. Remember, I reviewed on of his books a few months ago so the conversation focused a little on that. Anyway, in the next few weeks, I will be interviewing Dr. Bevere, so if you want, send in your questions. You can find his blog here.
Also, I found how to pronounce Energion. The G is a ‘ge’ sound and the not the ‘ja’ sound. Not like energy in other words.