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https://twitter.com/zugzwanged/status/1800266695954584044While authorities are engaged in surveillance upon us, we are now also constantly engaged in surveillance upon each other. Online we speak knowing that parties unknown to us will be eavesdropping. Words can no longer be so easily tailored to hearer and context.
https://twitter.com/KatinOxford/status/1750897982218649955C.S. Lewis's work has wide appeal—Christians & non-Christians, children & adults, men & women, scholars & laypeople, Protestants & Catholics, conservatives & liberals, etc. Of course, many dislike him—or aspects of him—and his appeal varies, yet it is still noteworthy.
https://twitter.com/DZRishmawy/status/1727027562529104374In 2 Kings 4, the Shunammite is given a miraculous child of promise. She stands in the doorway (verse 15; cf. Genesis 18:10) and the Lord's messenger declares that she will have a son that time next year using the same expression as in Genesis 18:10 (2 Kings 4:16-17).
https://twitter.com/ewzucker/status/17253801626093488251 Kings 19 had several surprising possible allusions to the binding of Ishmael. Not where we might expect to find them!
https://twitter.com/Louise_m_perry/status/1719387773617021362In such a group, most people are fearful of the anger, abuse, or aggression of one party and just want to keep the peace. That typically boils down to appeasing the abuser and policing any who would aggravate them by resisting or calling them out.
https://twitter.com/PLeithart/status/1702672111834419676Understanding what such statements mean really requires some conversance with symbolism, archetypes, and typology and how they work. It also requires minds that don't operate on hair-trigger impressions, but which can patiently think something through and ask genuine questions.
https://twitter.com/EdwardLHamilton/status/1680255816631189505I am not an 'elite' or even an aspiring one. My work is that of a popularizing scholar.
https://twitter.com/zugzwanged/status/1650429601540186113Within this structure, Daniel in the lion's den is paired with his friends in the fiery furnace.
https://twitter.com/DrJamesEglinton/status/1650410342768418818Daniel 6 is near the start of Darius's reign, after the fall of Babylon to the Medes and Persians. In Daniel 9, set at the same time, Daniel is concerned about the restoration of the Jews, after seventy years of judgment. Babylon has been overthrown: when are the Jews returning?
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1640321461972877312This drop almost certainly overwhelmingly is on the left. If the right co-opts national identity and symbolism as its own, presenting patriotism as right wing in reaction, this trend will likely be reinforced.