John Hobbins, proprietor of Ancient Hebrew Poetry has just started a sister site, Ancient Hebrew Dancing. He writes: “In the same way that an intrinsic appreciation of the inherent prosody of the internal structure of Hebrew poetry helps us to highlight the epistemological apparition of superimposed semantic stuff in Semitic and Ugaritic sacred [...]

Site Feed 100 visitors per day. Technorati authority of 100. 100 subscribers. The big three-oh-oh. I want it. Blogging is a big game for me. Like collecting baseball cards. Or having the biggest motorhome in the RV park. I’m just addicted to the stuff. 100. 100. 100.  I’ve got the first one. I’m [...]

Cyber-Psalm 9.0 I started to write something quite different yesterday morning but it ended up sounding very boring and theological. So I deleted it, closed down the computer and spent some time reading Psalm 148. It inspired me with the idea of how everything on earth praises the Lord. And how we tend to manifest our inner attitude of [...]

Sing and hum and whistle!      Snap your fingers and tap your toes. Walk each step to the rhythm of praise. Wipers on windshield set the song.     Raindrops on rooftops sing along. Every laugh a line of love. Fill your mouth with words of praise.      Every expression an exclamation. Every thought a meditation. God fills [...]

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A new blog is exploring that concept and others related to it. Check out: Complegalitarian

I’d like to take a break from all the latest silliness on this blog to ask you to please continue to pray for this little boy. The chance of irreparable brain damage is very real. I’m heart-broken for the family and Caleb. Here’s the latest report from Caleb’s Daddy: Dear friends, Caleb continues [...]

Bible translation and personality – followup Despite the flu and other challenges, Wayne has posted a follow-up to his intriguing post on Bible Translation and Personality Types. After seeing the results of his readers he decided that his original hypothesis was wrong but nonetheless goes on to make some very interesting observations on the role of [...]

In my post Whoa to you who laugh I set out to show how the Bible does not endorse laughter. I expected to be quickly proven wrong. Instead, no one contradicted me. In fact, when a published Biblical scholar wanted to show me something funny from the Bible this was the best he could do: [...]

Wayne at Better Bibles Blog is trying to find a correspondence between personality types and Bible translation preferences. Here’s my contribution to the study: The last time I did this test was fifteen years ago and my scores were exactly the same. Click the graphic above for more information or to complete your [...]

I’ve changed the look of the Lingamish blog slightly, moving the theme from Cutline to Pressrow. Cutline was a bit too glaringly white for me. Pressrow has a slightly bigger header as well as better looking quotes and sidebar. Both themes are by Chris Pearson. My only quibble with Pressrow is the font which is [...]

I’m having a lot of fun following people’s responses to Whoa to you who laugh. Is it OK to laugh about the dearth of humor in the Bible? Sure you can dig it up if you search really hard but on the surface The Book is pretty serious. Quite a lot of the time I think [...]