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Oh, well do like the ladies do, dont pluck them.... use a permanent marker and fill them in. If it bothers you.Actually they are in my eyebrows lol, and I don't particularly want to shave those off
-starting to legitimately get creeped out and worried over the period posts-
All I'm sayin' is if he suddenly stops posting altogether one day and is gone from CF, I'd be really creeped out.
That is all. Have a blessed day!
Oh dear! I hope you find it!
YES! Batman v Superman! I got it on VUDU, for a month early access to the digital, and they're shipping the bluray to my house.I was reading an article on the ark of the covenant yesterday and some of its material really annoyed me. The article stated that the critical opinion of the ark was that it was an unadorned box and that the gold-overlaid box was an exilic and postexilic conception and may indeed have been inspired by Ezekiel's visions. I have problems with this. For one thing, if it's impossible (or nigh) to separate what's original to what was a later gloss or interpolation, the validity of the whole is called into question.
Ezekiel's visions depict a throne-chariot which was a common motif in the ancient near east; I don't believe this demands a late production.
On the other hand, the kipper of Yom Kippur and word for mercy seat do appear to share similarities to a ritual that the Hebrews would appear (superficially, anyway) to have come into contact with during the exile-- I'll grant that.
Then there is the business of the ark narrative being a late production, yea, even a specially-composed piece to 'serve a theological purpose', perhaps to discredit the house of Eli. I'm not literate enough with ANE literature to say for positive, but I don't see a precedent for this kind of fiction; divine-warriors and hero-kings, certainly (Solomon's meeting with the Queen of Sheba is the one that readily comes to mind as potentially fitting the form) and Wisdom literature in which the wise man imparts his wisdom by fitting it into a fictional (or fictionalised) construct-- Job and Ecclesiastes have been identified as such by some. But this is a form I've not seen, though I'd be glad to be proven wrong (I hate being wrong about scholarship!).
It seems like these critical scholars make the text harder than it needs to be, although, I do believe critical methodology has valuable points to offer provided it is harnessed with a respect for the text and intellectual honesty. I do concede the bit about the mercy seat is compelling, and I'd like to pursue that further at some point.
Batman v Superman tomorrow.
