Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Job: I’ll Take That Bet!

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This is one of the most famous pieces of work in the Bible: the Book of Job. I’m sure most of us know it in its basic outline. Job is the mo...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Esther: Countergenocide

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The Book of Esther is the story of the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim, and it’s pretty short at only ten chapters. I suppose there’...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Nehemiah: Nothing to See Here

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This is gonna be short. The Book of Nehemiah is a quick ten-chapter book about, you guessed it, Nehemiah. Like Ezra, it kind of does th...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Ezra: Racist D-Baggery

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Ezra is kind of a weird book. It starts out in third person, then in the middle starts being told in first person as though it were the pers...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

Second Chronicles: Shoring Up the Image

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Holy crap! It’s been more than a month since my last post! I’m slipping! Well, Second Chronicles has been a little bit of a challenge...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

First Chronicles: Department of Redundancy Department (Can’t Even Do That Right)

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So, remember at the end of my last post, how I said we might be able to get through First Chronicles relatively quickly because it repeats a...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Second Kings: Just Get it Over With!

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Well, for a number of reasons I haven’t been able to put up a post in about a month. This is partly due to life getting pretty crowded, an...