Special thanks to Charles Halton for putting this up! Please click through to give him the traffic he deserves and download the articles. Understanding the History of Ancient Israel The Proceedings of the British Academy volume 143 is online and articles are free to download. (Via Awilum.com.)
Yearly Archives: 2008
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I have been having a good discussion with an old high school friend through his blog “Pressing the Flesh” (the name comes, so I am told, from a play he produced a year or so ago). In that post he muses on the dramatic turn of events, post Iowa, that […]
We have a wind advisory currently in central PA. This morning Christmas trees set by the side of the road for pick up are being flung across streets and yards like tumbleweeds. There are also scattered showers bringing us this rainbow. I was not able to get a great angle, […]
Flickr is amazing. This company, Schmap, found my pictures from Oxford that I took last summer and asked if they could use one for their online (free) travel guide. I was happy to allow them to do so! You can go directly to the entry with my photo of Mansfield […]
Now that Comedy Central is back on the air with their “news” programs telling them what it is they are supposed believe. Jon Stewart: Steven Colbert: Those who know me know that I enjoy humor and politics as much as religion (that is a redundant statement). But what irks me […]
Airton José da Silva has posted a summary in English of an article that he has just completed (in Portuguese) on the Book of Ruth in its social and anthropological setting. He offers a brief summary in English and the Portuguese introduction. International Biblical Studies Writing Month Chris Brady at Targuman, […]
Michael Barber of Singing in the Reign has revealed the answers to his “Guess the Author” contest. He then goes on to sum up nicely some of my thoughts regarding the so-called Jesus Quest. (Which always makes me think of Don Quixote for some reason.) As I continue to research, […]
This is the grape juice my wife got for our kids to drink at the holiday meals. I meant to put the picture up before. I love the name, “After the Fall.” Hah! Cracks me up…
Any who might have me on Facebook or Twitter will know that I have been reviewing applications for the last week or so. We have over 2400 applications, a new record, but a lot of work. Most of them are read by our faculty readers, God bless ’em. The application, […]
This oped was written to BusinessWeek by our Provost Rodney Erickson and signed by all the Big 10 provosts. It is replying to the earlier article “The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League”. It is a very good piece (the letter, the other is good as well, but problematic, as […]