September 2007
12 posts
Joshua up to Chapter 15
Some of these chapters are pretty tough to read from our modern point of view. We have the Geneva Convention laws that we follow now… or at least we did until 9/11.
But they didn’t have any of those rules of warfare back in the day. Scholars say Joshua was from the late Bronze Age (around 1200 BC).
This is what wikipedia says in the entry on “total war”
The first...
“Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much.”
– 1 Corinthians 8:2
Joshua 4-6
The Israelites finish crossing the Jordan and they set up a little memorial with 12 rocks from the riverbed. Now that they’re in the Promised Land, they do like Abraham and circumcise all the men. For some reason they didn’t do this to anyone born after leaving Egypt. They celebrated passover.
At the end of chapter 5, the same person who met Moses on Sinai meets Joshua outside...
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Celebrity Bull Riding Marathon!
for some reason the dish box is tuned into CMT today, so behind me i’m hearing a bunch of washed up celebrities get trampled, thrown, and otherwise obliterated by a bunch of huge farm animals. Somehow the singer Jewel is involved for even more star power. Good times. In other news, this weekend I threw together a new site for Wiggins over at www.livingroomstudy.org. Wordpress is amazing in...
Joshua 3
Joshua 3 tells how Israel crossed the Jordan River to finally enter the Promised Land.
They start out from a camp at Shittim, which through the power of the google I know means “the acacias.” Shittim is also known as Abel-Shittim (“Meadow of the Acacias”) and Abila (in Josephus). This is where Moses gave his final exhortations to Israel in Deuteronomy, where Joshua takes...
Joshua 2
Back on our trip to Israel in ‘05, we drove by Jericho but weren’t allowed to visit. It had been handed over to the Palestinian government and was deemed too unsafe for western tourists. It’s a shame, because it’s considered one of the oldest known cities in all human history.
What I recall from seeing it in the distance is that Jericho is on a plain between the Jordan...
Cool audio toy from Apogee →
Back when I worked at Burns Audio in college, all the shows we set up were based around Apogee hardware, namely AE-3 and AE-5 speakers with AE-12 subs. It was always fun to crank up some music in the warehouse for testing until Bruce yelled at us to “turn that [stuff] off!” Good times. I’m not sure if Apogee Sound International is related to Apogee Digital, but this mac-only...
more things i should blog about
in no particular order:
venti latte is the best drink in the world at 8:00am
flight of the conchords is funny, though mildly inappropriate
nbc is really stupid for pulling shows from iTunes
i’m getting back in to producing podcasts
my family is fun, but completely crazy
i’m going to nz next month
andrew slept half the night in his own bed last night!
the new iMac is just a...
