Entries categorized as bible
The King’s English
100 phrases in common usage that originated in the 16th/17th century English translations of the Bible.
Glen Scrivener turned them into a clever poem. Here it is: enjoy!
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sarah dylan breuer: a blog for readers and preachers
Here is a blog that’s packed to the gills with scholarship you would normally have to pay large amounts of money for. Laid out week by week to match the lectionary, there are clues and ideas here as to how to approach the text of the week (usually focussing on the gospel, but often drawing More...
Writing on the Wall: “an ideal present for a sixth former or a busy preacher”
It’s a trip through the Bible for the biblically ignorant but otherwise educated reader, giving some basic info and background on the stories that have shaped our literature and history. She doesn’t just tell the story, but gives enough background to it to help you understand its meaning, and why it may have been used as it has been. So she turns on a light bulb to illuminate a range of cultural basics — Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Milton, Spenser, Jacob Epstein, Wilfred Owen, William Blake, Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, yea even Monty Python... and hundreds of others.
So, here is an ideal present for the sixth former in your life who seeks some background to our culture. Its clarity and sense of perspective may also help the busy preacher...
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publication day
go on, you know you want to…
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The Bible for Spin Doctors
Church Mouse is on top form this morning
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Scapegoats, shambles and shibboleths
I like finding out about the origins of words and phrases – someone noted the other day that I rarely preach a sermon without mentioning the etymology of at least one word. One of the most entertaining sidelines of my research on S T Coleridge was discovering how many of the words and phrases in More...
The Devil is behind the NIV
A couple of weeks ago I posted on a Bible-burning event – the AmazingGrace church were planning to burn any translation of the Bible except the King James Version.
Rain, protesters and local law enforcement apparently led to the event being adapted – it sounds like they cut up the bibles at a small private More...
Bible reading
"…we should be trying to work out how to read the bible well rather than reading the text right."
Paula Gooder
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Bible and English literature – Cross-Reference
I've been in contact with various agencies over the last year or so on the issue of the realtionship between the Bible and various streams of Western culture. I have an abiding interest in how the Bible – its compilation and translation, and how it has been understood and nuanced at different stages in history More...
Biblical Illiteracy
Beth Twiston Davies comments on a subject close to my own heart.
People often assume that you would only read the Bible if you were interested in religion. But without a degree of biblical knowlege, you can't understand Western art, from the earliest known artefacts right through to Banksy and Damien Hirst; you don't get More...



