If you follow my blog at all you will know there hasn’t been much to follow as of late. And this semester is always busy for me with with graduation for honors students, recruitment of new students, and this year I was chairing the search for one Dean while we […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
17 posts
There is some promise. See the story in today’s Inside Higher Ed. Scientists Get Religion June 17, 2010 WASHINGTON – Jennifer Wiseman is an astrophysicist and a Christian. Both of those elements will come into play in her new role with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where […]
The 2010 International Organization for Targumic Studies conference is nearly here! Held triennially as part of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, this year’s conference is in Helsinki, Finland during the first week in August. The program(me) has just been posted at the conference website and […]
SBL has published the sessions for the upcoming conference in Atlanta. The link is here and I will be presenting in the following three sessions (Sorry, all the links take you back to the SBL site. I will clean that up later.): Session Id TBD Aramaic Studies 11/21/2010 1:00 PM […]
There is much debate about whether Apple’s ecosystem (iTunes/App Store/iPhone/iPad) is an attempt to control your life or simply offer you a good consumer experience. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a link to a post and commentary suggesting that the iPad and the whole Apple system is akin to AOL. […]
Today marks the opening of the 2010 hurricane season. In our 9 years in New Orleans we saw plenty of wind and water (not just Katrina) and do not miss the drama and damage. We do, however, remember our friends and pray that the season is meek and mild.
Today I get back into the saddle, not blogging (although that is clearly going to happen as a procrastination measure, as this post attests) but in terms of my research. I have largely set aside June for work on my Targum Ruth project with only two trips and a handful […]