Secular Bible Study: The Book of Joshua
I’m leading Secular Bible Study today, so here are my notes on the book of Joshua (org-mode version).
More details later, hopefully.
Update, Sat Apr 18 17:42:26 2009:
Well, that went pretty well, I thought. I didn’t get to give my presentation, just give out bits and pieces of it as they became relevant to the conversation. Then again, since I wasn’t really able to turn my disjoint collection of notes into a coherent presentation, it’s probably just as well.
I mentioned Iron Chariots, the counter-apologetics wiki (which is where I got the definitions of henotheism and monolatrism. (Consider this a plug for the site. All of you who attended had interesting things to contribute, so you might as well contribute to the wiki and share with the world.)
The topic of theologians tying themselves in logical knots to justify or rationalize things like the book of Joshua reminded me of this post by Greta Christina, comparing religion to fan fiction.
I’ve probably forgotten some references that I promised people. If so, please speak up in the comments.