Be sure to read Danny Zacharias’ excellent summary of the recent debate surrounding Berlinblau’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education critiquing SBL. Danny’s own refections are definitely worth reading. E.g., It seems clear to me that the entire point of the article is to say that the SBL isn’t […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
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The forum looks nice and a few of you have checked it out before any real content was/is there. The only drawback I can see is that there is no way to receive updates on the page via RSS. So the advantages of a blog are lost (you have to […]
I am trying this out for our Schreyer engage.shc.psu.edu site. It is a forum plugin for WordPress by XDWeb. So feel free to click on the “Forums” tab above or go to this link and start a conversation!
I offer no comment. 😉 Rumsfeld resignation summarized in Mac OSX screenshot Xeni Jardin: Created by BoingBoing reader Brian Topping. Previously: Rumsfeld to resign. Who is Bob Gates? Link, and more. (Via Boing Boing.)
This is from Kevin. Thanks for the heads up! What’s Wrong with the SBL? The Chronicle of Higher Education has a provocative piece by Jacques Berlinerblau entitled “What’s Wrong with the Society of Biblical Literature?” As I and many fellow bibliobloggers will be descending on Washington, DC, next week for […]
From one of the strips I read is a post about another strip I read. Sheldon is moving! Dave Kellett Needs Help BLC’s Dave Kellett needs your help. He’s moving his daily strip, Sheldon, to http://www.sheldoncomics.com tomorrow. He’s leaving United Media to go completely independent… which means he needs help […]
This PBS story was the Religion and Ethics Newsweekly’s “Election 2008 Preview” but it serves just as well for a post mid-term election consideration of what is to come. Do the 2006 midterm elections set the stage for a highly politicized religious environment in 2008 and for more religious appeals […]
In comments on Stephen Cook’s post I asserted that scholars outside of the field of biblical literature proper (e.g., English faculty who teach “The Bible as Literature”) often deal with what Stephen referred to as “the white elephant in the room: Scripture by its nature is all about claims to […]
Stephen Cook posted a reply to my earlier post about David and commented that he had not heard a good homily on David in a while. I don’t know if they are good, but I offer two that I delivered several years ago. For those who do not want to […]
I am not sure how I missed this post from last week and most of my audience already knows about Accordance, but if you don’t and you use a Mac (or get a Mac if you want ot use the best Bible software out there) check out Accordance. Their targum, […]