I received the following email from Ziony Zevit. Dear Colleagues I write to draw your attention to the two NAPH sessions at the forthcoming SBL meetings that will deal with Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew. The catalyst for this year’s sessions, and the two (or three) planned for 2010, is the […]
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Last week Bill Cosby was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. It was shown on PBS tonight and if you can watch, by all means do! Cosby is without a doubt the best, funniest, and smartest comedian of the last 75 years. Don’t […]
Testing out the new WordPress 2 iPhone app. Still giving me odd errors. The previous version didn’t let me upload pictures (it did for others but something odd is going on for many users, 2 was supposed to fix it). Below you should see a picture from the NY subway.
You may or may not know that November is National Novel Writing Month. I have long wanted to write a mystery novel (and even have a plot, outline, and details brewing!) but because November is also IStHaWriMSBLPaMo (I Still Haven’t Written my SBL Paper Month) I have not participated in […]
You know there are times when I get really frustrated and a wee bit depressed because there is just not enough time. I love my job as an administrator and the work that I do but it means I have very little time for reading blogs and even less for […]
International Organization for Qumran Studies Seventh Meeting HELSINKI, FINLAND AUGUST 2–4, 2010 Call for Papers The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions For the special topic of this seventh meeting of the IOQS, we invite papers that discuss any aspect of the transmission, use, or interpretation of biblical traditions in the Scrolls […]
(You can tell this will be an academic-type post because I used a colon in my title.) In the past few weeks we have had several different events, two conferences and one speaker, on campus relating to climate change. Conservative Christians, I was told, refuse to accept climate change because […]
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!).