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The Film that Cried ‘Beowulf’
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Ben Witherington
Robert Zemeckis is a fine director of films, but even he must have thought he had bitten off more than he could chew by attempting to do a 3-D film which is mostly CG and part real actors blended together, using a dark Scandanavian legend as its script. ‘Beowulf’ is an olde Englishe heroic poem…
Red Sox Nation Celebrates a Championship
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Ben Witherington
There are gravestones in New England which have as their epitaphs– ‘he didn’t live long enough to see the Red Sox win the World Series’. Until 2004, there were few who could even vaguely recall the last World Series championship– that one won in 1918 with the help of some pitcher named Babe Ruth. It…
Mission: Hong Kong
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Ben Witherington
This will be mostly a photo essay of my time in Hong Kong. I went to give lectures on my Revelation commentary at the end of August on the occasion of its translation into Mandarin, and expected a few hundred people to show up. 8,000 tickets disappeared in no time flat. Christianity is flourishing in…
The Qumran Exhibit at the SBL in San Diego
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Ben Witherington
The week before Thanksgiving every year, the Society of Biblical Literature holds its annual meeting. This year the meeting was in beautiful San Diego (normal daily temps raise from 53 to 68 or so F.) One of the special features of this meeting was that we were able to go to the Natural History Museum…
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