by Wendy Widder | Oct 20, 2011 | Daniel 1, The Book of Daniel
Sometimes you can miss the first few minutes of a movie or even the first few pages of a book, and you can still catch up pretty easily. This is not the case in the book of Daniel. If you read too quickly past the first 2 verses of chapter 1, you miss the key to the...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 16, 2011 | The Book of Daniel
I feel a sense of professional responsibility to write this particular post, though I am prepared for all of you except my sister to bail out before the end. Prove me wrong… If you have spent any time studying the book of Daniel with the aid of commentaries,...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 13, 2011 | The Book of Daniel
I’ve spent a lot of time this week thinking about death and my dissertation. (Sometimes I’ve thought I would experience death by dissertation, but I am beginning to believe I might come out of the process alive after all.) Death has been on my mind because, if I lived...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 9, 2011 | Tributes
When I passed my PhD exams in 2008, I took a much-needed vacation before launching fulltime dissertation work. My travels took me to see some old college friends in Knoxville, Tennessee, and while their presence would have been more than enough balm for a weary soul,...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 6, 2011 | How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
The Bible is full of stories – more properly called narratives—and most people don’t give a second thought to how they should be read. They’re stories, for crying out loud. Who doesn’t know how to read a story? Why are you wasting Web space – and my time – on this...
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