Friday, May 13, 2005
The Empire strikes back? ::
Seth L. Sanders has a great post on Serving the Word titled "Where Do Empires Come From? Israel, Assyria, and the Question of U.S. Imperialism".
He begins a fascinatingly succinct summary of Cyntha Chapman's doctoral thesis, now book, The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter, and continues to remark of Israelite writers that "Empire was imprinted on their consciousness."
Then he uses Psalm 89 to illustrate this saying:
While, if you haven't yet, you should read his post! ¶ 2:32 PM
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Seth L. Sanders has a great post on Serving the Word titled "Where Do Empires Come From? Israel, Assyria, and the Question of U.S. Imperialism".
He begins a fascinatingly succinct summary of Cyntha Chapman's doctoral thesis, now book, The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter, and continues to remark of Israelite writers that "Empire was imprinted on their consciousness."
Then he uses Psalm 89 to illustrate this saying:
I would argue that what we see here [Ps 89:21ff.], in the precise imprint left by an empire on a subject people, is nothing less than the secret of empire itself: that people learn from it, imitate it, and use these lessons to form new empires. The Bible carries the marks of Assyria and Persia and was used as a model for new empires after Rome.He then sells me on the desire to read two other books, one still unpublished! A fine day's work ;) Now all I have to do is find time to read one or both...
While, if you haven't yet, you should read his post! ¶ 2:32 PM
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Ronald Simkins (of the project) points out what I had not spotted:
The primary difference between pans and cubes is that pans have a limited field of view (horizontally) whereas cubes have a 180 horizontal field of view so that you can see what is directly up and down from the spot of view. Cubes are therefore especially valuable in close quarters and where what is up and down is important.
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June 13, 2005 6:16 AM
