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Rachel’s death in childbirth—Genesis 35:16-20
I always hated scripts where somebody gets killed off and the writer gives you a petty reason not…
Slaughtering the Benjamites I: Benjamin’s depravity—Judges 19:1—20:28
If biblical texts about slaughtering the Canaanites rightly make us uncomfortable (see http://craigkeener.com/slaughtering-the-canaanites-part-i-limiting-factors/; http://craigkeener.com/slaughtering-the-canaanites-part-ii-switching-sides/; http://craigkeener.com/slaughtering-the-canaanites-part-iii-gods-ideal/), biblical texts about…
Blessing Pharaoh—Genesis 47
Although we often retell the stories in Genesis, sometimes we neglect an important detail. When the aged shepherd…