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40-reme but it’s just forty guys swishing the steering oar back and forth like a shark tail.

If I ever swim the Tiber, it’ll be because of this

If you want the nichest possible answer to this question, it's "Daniel is the fourth man in the fire."

I can't tell you where I found it, and I might be hallucinating it, but I'm pretty sure that somewhere in the ancient literature on Dan 3, this is a take.

Something something "with tears"

Four legs good; two legs BETTER

Surely there’s someone working on a modern-day retelling of Caligula that just slowly morphs into a weird drama about Donald Trump

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One day somebody’s going to write a PhD on Charlie Kirk’s funeral as the consummation of American evangelical syncretism. Like, there’s so much text and sub-text here. Just deeply disturbing.

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Book Announcement: The Authority of the Septuagint I’m excited to announce a new book coming out this October with IVP Academic, entitled The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Approaches. This is a project tha…

Book Announcement: The Authority of the Septuagint

OHHHHHHH

WAIT I was just looking at the hardcover price!

This is the kind of thing that I (as someone in a very different part of the humanities) would love to get my hands on. That academic pub price tag, though :c

Text = "Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic, pt. 1" / Image = Alice and Humpty Dumpty

Text = "Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic, pt. 2" / Image = mysterious figure with Scythe

Text = "Away from a Definition of Apocalyptic, pt. 3" / Image = Angel, swooping down with a chain

If you're itching to read about "Apocalyptic" in the most arcane senses of that term, perhaps to distract you from much else apocalyptic in our times, this is the series for you! humanhistoriesofkn.substack.com/p/away-from-...

A picture of a bride and groom laughing together in front of a church.

So Bluesky's a fairly glum place, but as a small piece of good news: I got married 😊

Something something Second Foundation

One of the big realisations for me in reading Daniel and the prophets was that these books had to mean something when they were written down, rather than being gibberish for several hundred years.

Particularly helps when you’re trying to understand what Jesus and the gospel writers are trying to do with Daniel.

Like, it’s really helpful to read the final kingdom as Rome, but only if you’ve read it as Antiochus first.

I’ve been kind of surprised to find myself coming back to the more traditional Western schema, not as authorial intent (it’s definitely not what the book was originally about), but as a theological overlay.

🎶(Shekhinah Shekhinah)🎶

Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of lying hips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of lying hips.

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He's a twisted, arrogant, bloodthirsty fool, and he'll meet his end, the same way as any tyrant, any King of the North or South.

"Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." (Exod 15:21)

"He will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many. He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him." (Dan 11:44–45)

I wonder what that young Ukrainian woman was feeling about it that, given all she's experienced and suffered.

Then, a few hours later, I saw that the US had bombed Iran—and I wonder how she feels about that, too.

And there's my reflex when I see news like today's: to turn to the book of Daniel:

The passage this morning was Exodus 14, the crossing of the Red Sea, but with an unusual focus on what was happening before the crossing: the approach of the Egyptian army, the Israelite panic, and the intervention of the LORD in cloud and fire.

There was a young woman who visited my church this morning. I learned later (from my partner) that she and her family had fled Ukraine a few years back; she's not a Christian, but with all that's happened to her, she's looking to make some sense of life.

In Rod we trust