On this date in history I was born. And in 1882 Oscar Wilde was ridiculed in Harper’s Weekly. One of the quotes in the NYTimes’ summary of Wilde’s trip to the US caught my attention. “It is not increased moral sense your literature needs. Indeed we should never talk of […]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
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Daniel McClellan has been following and contributing to our discussion of Genesis 1 on his own blog and today posted some thoughts on where he places Genesis 1. In my mind, contextualization is one of the best interpretive keys in questions like this. The more we know about the context […]
I have spent most of the day either in meetings or taking phone calls from reporters. It was a good day all in all. The reporters were interested in the recent story that broke about our honors college’s capital campaign (see the note below). What I wanted to note about […]
Introductory comment to an introductory comment: I am attempting to return to our discussion of the creation narratives of Genesis… (And be sure to follow John Hobbins’ riffs off of my comments. I feel like I am in a jazz duo, it is really very invigorating!) But along the way […]
Jim West announced the new status of bibliobloggers vis a vis SBL last week. This led to some reaction by folks like John Hobbins. I have posted a brief comment on Jim’s site, but let me post it here as well with point (3)(2) added. When I read Jim’s announcement I […]
Several years ago I heard an excellent lecture by Jonathan Culler about the concept of omniscient narrators. His talk really was very good, sadly he prefaced his talk with needless attacks on anyone who believes in a god or religion. I have written about that before, but never commented on […]
I was not able to finish my post on Gen. 1 for today, however I did come across this timely comic. Enjoy.
I may have shared this before, but tell me this isn’t Dr. Jim West wearing a kilt riding a motorcycle.
In continuing my some-what rambling study of the opening chapters of Genesis I want to begin by thanking Daniel McClellan and John Hobbins for noting and commenting on this series. As I noted on John’s blog, this kind of engagement is incredibly refreshing to me. As a dean I spend […]
Following my post yesterday David Everson passed along this good news: Daniel O. McClellan has a link to an online pdf download of Rendsburg’s book. Here is the actual page: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=5 That link is now defunct, use this: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/redaction-of-genesis Here is the blog: http://maklelan.blogspot.com/2009/01/gary-rendsburgs-redaction-of-genesis.html This is a slim but very good […]