Biblical Intertextuality (Part 7): Jonah, Pinocchio, and a New Creation
One of the things I loved to do when I covered Jonah in my 9th grade Old Testament class was show my class the movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni. I wouldn’t sh...
One of the things I loved to do when I covered Jonah in my 9th grade Old Testament class was show my class the movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni. I wouldn’t sh...
Given the basic plot of The Matrix, there are five essential biblical themes, one of which is a “Jonah theme,” that are essential to furthering the plot. The ot...
As hard as it is to believe, The Matrix is 16 years old. As I sat in the movie theater, watching The Matrix for the first time, I had two distinct impressions. ...
This evening, I noticed that Ken Ham had a new post on his blog, entitled, “A Hero in My Life.” No, he wasn’t writing about a hero in his life...
It is ironic that the central question literary scholars ask concerning the identity of Moby Dick is virtually the exact same question biblical scholars ask con...
One of the main questions concerning Moby Dick is the exact identity of the white whale: is Moby Dick symbolic of God himself, or just symbolic of nat...
At various times in college, I attempted to read Moby Dick—I failed every time. My natural inclination was toward poetry, and Moby Dick was a novel…a long novel...
Back when I was in graduate school at Trinity Western University, I wrote my master’s thesis on the book of Jonah. There was one chapter of it, though, that I e...
Yesterday, I began assessing the assessment that Elizabeth Mitchell of Answers in Genesis gave to Karl Giberson’s book, Saving the Original Sinner. Today, I wou...
Back in August I wrote a four-part post series in which I critiqued the “book review” of Elizabeth Mitchell from Answers in Genesis on Peter Enns’ book, The Bib...