I am very pleased to announce that we are going to have an interesting, exciting, and timely conference at Penn State this fall. I will be on one of the panels and we will have a number of other scholars participating. If you are in Pennsylvania and interested in participating […]
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An incredibly powerful memorial. You can read more about it here and this is the picture I was able to take last night.
Some of you who follow US college sports will have heard about FSU’s admitting that 61 of its athletes cheated on exams, with the aid of their athletic academic advisers, during the 2006-7 seasons. (See ESPN story and video.) When such a matter happens the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the […]
I hope not this. That this comic should come out today just as someone commented on this 3-year old post about tenure and shortly after I posted this about academic freedom is a wonderful coincidence (and not the least bit ironic, Alanis Morissette!).
Dead Sea Scrolls scholar responds to son’s arrest — chicagotribune.com He seems to concede that his son Raphael Golb did as he is accused: “The fact of the matter is that if I understand it, Raphael was responding to the attacks on me,” the elder Golb said in Saturday’s editions […]
That is, of course, Phyllis Trible’s terms for the many texts in the Hebrew Bible that shock our modern sensibilities as God calls for the desctruction of the Canaanites or…worse. Since 9/11 many Americans have asked and asserted that the Quran itself, with passages such as Sura 47 that begins […]
First it was the halo effect of the news photo (intentional or accidental?) now St. Obama has his own votive candles.
File under: “No duh.” A recent survey of mainline Protestant clergy has proved that the rain falls down and that the Pope is Catholic. From the Episcopal News Service: Episcopal clergy take lead in staking out progressive positions By Mary Frances Schjonberg, March 06, 2009 [Episcopal News Service] A survey […]
My head has been down focused on admissions and getting a new program started here at PSU that I neglected to note that Jim West has also contributed a volume to the Bible Briefs series: Obadiah. Stephen Cook made the formal announcement yesterday. Free Online: Lamentations and Obadiah Bible Briefs […]
Jim West has brought to our attention both the reassignment of Gerd Lüdemann and a petition to protest the fact that the German Supreme Court upheld that decision. According to the petition: Gerd Lüdemann, Professor of the History and Literature of Early Christianity in the University of Göttingen, has received […]