2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin, and other links

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• 2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin discovered by child evacuated on Oct. 7 -- “While exploring the area around the hotel that he had been evacuated to along the Dead Sea, Nati Toyikar came across an ancient coin dating back to the Hasmonean period.”
• What do Roman Catholics Believe? A Confessional Protestant Response to Ten Teachings of the RCC -- “...the Lord’s Supper is a sacred meal for the church (when ye come together in the church) ordained by Christ himself. The bread and cup are spiritual emblems representing the body and blood of Christ...”
• Visible Grace in Disagreements -- “Paul wasn’t afraid to address sin. Just ask the Corinthians. But what first grabbed Paul’s attention when he thought about that rowdy, discriminatory congregation in Corinth?”
• Tips for Finding Deceased Ancestors in the Papers -- “With the help of AI, Newspapers.com has identified more than 316 million obituaries in their archives.”
• The Pericope Adulterae: A Floating Tradition? -- “One would think that after several years of these journal articles being published, this naive floating tradition argument would cease to be made.”
• The Initial Location of the Pericope Adulterae in Fourfold Tradition -- “Chris Keith is not a Textus Receptus advocate and does not even believe that the Pericope Adulterae is authentic, but he has demonstrated that the floating tradition argument is a baseless theory.” (will need Academia.edu account to read)
• Small Wonder -- “Flophouze Hotel, a member of Fayette Electric Cooperative, on Round Top’s outskirts, provides a stylish antidote to frazzled urban pilgrims who make the sub-two-hour trek from Austin, Houston or San Antonio.”
• Republic’s End -- “‘Many a manly cheek was wet with tears’ when the Texian flag was lowered for the last time.”
• How to Visit Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas -- The concept of Amarillo’s Cadillac Ranch on Route 66 is as simple as it is absurd: 10 perfectly lined-up Cadillacs sit in the desert, with their front ends buried in the earth.
• How the Book of Joel was Preserved -- “The doctrine of preservation falls within the issue of authority. If God’s word has been imperfectly preserved to any degree, it is lacking that much in authority.”
• How Evangelicals Now Move the Goalposts on Bibliology -- “Someone may call the Bible, the Word of God, but it no longer has the same authority as a book from God, because we are so unsure or uncertain about it.”
• Goodbye, NRSVue -- “I know not how this outrageous error happened, but I suspect the involvement of Dr. Jennifer Knust in the making of the NRSVue had something to do with it.”
• Doing Time -- “...in Brown County...the old jail looks more like a medieval fortress than a place to dive into history.”
• Buoyed by Vice -- “Unlike other infamous crime bosses of their era, the Maceos shied away from violence because it was bad for business.”
• A Revere of Our Own -- “In 1836, Katy Jennings rode west from her home in Bastrop to the tiny town of Waterloo (known today as Austin) to alert Texians that the Mexican army was coming...Katy was 10 years old.”
• A Critique and Caution About The Site kjvparallelbible.org, by Christopher Yetzer -- “Besides the confusion in the promotional language of the site, there are clear errors in the text as it is presented.”
• A Critical Apparatus of the Textus Receptus Tradition -- “There are three categories of variants that I compile…variants ‘of great significance’ or major variants that would be translatable…subtle variants (such as spelling) that ‘affect the sense,’ and…inconsequential variants ‘not of great significance’ and that do not ‘affect the sense.’”
• A Brief Working Definition of Postmodernism -- “The average community (and even the average church) is populated with people who believe that truth is relative and that answers for living are found in a variety of perspectives.”