by Wendy Widder | Nov 3, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
Last night was National Turn-Back-the-Clock night, which is widely embraced by most people I know (so long as they don’t have small children at home). Hooray for an extra hour to do something (Read: sleep!)! What I can’t figure out is how, with that extra hour of...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 13, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
When I’ve taught Daniel 7 in the past, I’ve often started with some comic relief since I know what’s ahead in the chapter and the rest of the book. That comic relief looks like this: These critters (three of which are currently on craigslist sale – “lion, tiger, and...
by Wendy Widder | Aug 25, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
That’s not one of my most creative titles for a blog post, but at least it’s clear. No luring in disinterested readers today… We’re trying to get a handle on the strange (to us) beast that is apocalyptic literature. It might be easiest to describe it by...
by Wendy Widder | Aug 10, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
My newsfeed these days is checkered with horrific stories of suffering people, many of them brothers and sisters in Christ, in the Middle East. And just when I can’t imagine how it could get any worse, the next story appears. It’s horrifying. It’s heartbreaking....
by Wendy Widder | Jul 20, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
All right. It’s time. We’ve been merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily making our way through the first half of Daniel, loving such well-told stories as the fiery furnace and the lions’ den. But the current changes when we arrive at chapter 7, and we’ll be paddling...
by Wendy Widder | Jul 6, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
I started warning you early about the second half of Daniel (and by “early” I mean within the first month of this blog’s life), and now that we’ve finally arrived, I’m reposting something I said way back then just to get things started… — I’m teaching Daniel to...
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