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On the Richter Scale—- Sandy Richter in the News
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Ben Witherington
Well it isn’t the cover of the Rolling Stone, but I am proud to say the newspaper in Jackson Ms. was smart enough to interview our friend and colleague Sandy Richter, who taught for us for many years (still does online, I believe) and is now full time at Wesley Biblical in Jackson. Here the…
Name That Ancient Object
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Ben Witherington
Here are four shots of an ancient object I bought from an antiquities dealer in Jerusalem some years ago. The first person to correctly identify this object wins a free copy of my recent book on Revelation. The winner will need to send a mailing envelope big enough for a small thin book, self-addressed…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows— Part One
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Ben Witherington
If you’re asked the question what is the opposite of well done, the answer should be— half-baked. And unfortunately, and I didn’t expect to say this, that is what we get for two hours and 37 minutes of the most recent Harry Potter movie. It is not what it ought to be, nor what it…
The Carlos Museum at Emory
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Ben Witherington
The Carlos Museum at Emory has a nice small collection of Greco-Roman remains, particularly busts which I thought I would share with you. The above bust should be familiar— it is Julius Caesar himself. As you can see from this bust of a domina, a patrician ‘ruler of the house’, the Romans preferred realism to…
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