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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" version="2.0"><channel><title>The Bible and Culture</title> <link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture</link> <description>A One-Stop Shop for All Things Biblical and Christian</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:31:16 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3</generator> <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBibleAndCulture" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="thebibleandculture" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><title>The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel– What a Way to Go</title><link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/06/01/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-what-a-way-to-go/</link> <comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/06/01/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-what-a-way-to-go/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:31:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/?p=3355</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everything will turn out alright in the end, and if it&#8217;s not alright (at present), then it&#8217;s not the end!&#8217; With this line Sonny reassures his English guests in Jaipur that things will get better in the dilapidated hotel from the era of the Raj to which they have chosen to retire. 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He is the inside source of my information about such matters. Here is his latest shocking report&#8211; BW3). Judge to Decide Fate of Ossuary, Jehoash Tablet Posted: May 29, 2012 in Uncategorized This news is reported in “The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/29/the-james-ossuary-may-be-destroyed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ancient Literacies II:  The Case of the Random Reader</title><link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/29/ancient-literacies-ii-the-case-of-the-random-reader/</link> <comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/29/ancient-literacies-ii-the-case-of-the-random-reader/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 05:40:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/?p=3150</guid> <description><![CDATA[There is much to be learned about ancient literacy in the fine book edited by William Johnson and Holt Parker, as I said in the previous post, and one of the overall impressions the book leaves is the growing suspicion that William Harris, the guru on levels of literacy in the ancient world (no more [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/29/ancient-literacies-ii-the-case-of-the-random-reader/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Quintilian on Writing, Reading, Studying, Editing</title><link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/28/quintilian-on-writing-reading-studying-editing/</link> <comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/28/quintilian-on-writing-reading-studying-editing/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 05:37:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/?p=3147</guid> <description><![CDATA[(the statue is of Cicero, whom Quintilian thought the greatest rhetorician of his age). Below is an excerpt from Book 10 and Chapter 3 of Quintilian&#8217;s Institutions of Oration. 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What a come down after the first film came out in 1997 to considerable acclaim, producing many guffaws. So it was with some trepidation that I went to the Loewe&#8217;s Cineplex in Boston yesterday and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/26/men-in-black-with-aliens-on-their-backs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Living Legacy– a Graduation Message for Boston Baptist College</title><link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/26/the-living-legacy-a-graduation-message-for-boston-baptist-college/</link> <comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/26/the-living-legacy-a-graduation-message-for-boston-baptist-college/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 05:15:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/?p=3140</guid> <description><![CDATA[( the following commencement address was delivered in Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston on May 23rd, 2012). Me at Faneuil Hall preparing to give this address. THE LIVING LEGACY Graduations are always rites of passage of one sort or another. 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Lots of innocent persons killed, lots of mayhem and destruction. Most of it inflicted by governmental forces of President Bashar Assad. One of the great neglected [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2012/05/25/the-problem-for-christians-in-syria/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss><!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

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