Brick-A-Brack 01/12/10

• Claude Mariottini gives a concise and very helpful argument that God did not command genocide in Joshua and Judges
• Loren Rossen cites three historical Jesus scholars on why the non-canonical gospels are not admissible for historical Jesus research, "Two of them are secular liberals, so it's not as if plain sense flows only from Christian bias." 
• TVNZ reports on "a former atheist who found God and like many Christians he's trying to make the world a better place."
• Darrell on the modern and hypothetical ancient Greek word for blog.

And something to get you in the Christmas mood, 

brick-a-brack 19/11/10

• Tim has a couple of complaints about the way we tend to censor the Bible
• John Byron exposes dishonest seminarians
• And Steve acheives a whole new magnitude of esoteric, with his discussion of Gothic translation methods
• And a really helpful post from Marc on "what is theological interpretation of the Bible?"

Enjoy