Monthly Archives: October 2009
29 posts
Well it is Halloween and the kids have made a few pumpkins. I for one see no real harm in this festival since for the kids it is nothing more than fun dressing up. Our son will be an old timey policeman and our daughter a glow stick (homemade costume!).
This is more excitement than I really need. The situation is this, I was immersed in researching for my paper on Ezra-Nehemiah for SBL (ok, napping) when I heard all these firetrucks and sirens. Well, it is DC a big city with a lot going on in it. Then I […]
Today I want to continue my running commentary on Genesis, moving on to the second creation account, beginning at Gen. 2:4. It is usual at this point to comment on where the second narrative begins. Gen. 2.4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were […]
I am in Washington DC for the next two and a bit days for the National Collegiate Honors Council conference. It is a surprisingly large conference and one of the best things that they do is bring in students who do presentations and poster sessions. (With scholarships being given for […]
I have posted the podcast on iTunes U in our Schreyer Honors College section. You can access it here. For some reason I cannot fathom the podcast will not properly save as an “enhanced podcast,” that is one where the slides can be viewed with the recording. To get around […]
This was a talk I gave at Penn State Abington on this past Thursday, October 22, 2009. I had embedded the slides into the podcast, but for some reason they are not showing up. I don’t think they are vital to the talk so you are not missing much. If […]