Last night I was in the local seminary and was showing someone the blog and their machine (IE on XP, I think) did not show all three columns. If you have the time, could you drop me a note in the comments letting me know whether or not you see […]
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Last night was the opening ceremonies for this year’s IOSOT. A reminder for those not familiar, the IOSOT is a triennial conference, meeting every three years somewhere in Europe. It is a great opportunity to meet with colleagues, especially those from Europe and Israel who often do not attend SBL […]
{This was eaten by WordPress yesterday.} The last few days have been the IOTS (Targum Studies) and IOSCS (Septuagintal and Cognate Studies ) but tonight is the official opening of the IOSOT Conference. It is going to be quite the Do, with the Prime Minister of Slovenia giving a speech […]
Today ended our two day conference of the IOTS. We were very sorry that Paul Flesher, our President, and Robert Hayward, a distinguished Targum scholar, were unable to join us because of illness. We wish them all the very best. It has been a wonderful conference with many excellent papers. […]
I just heard the very sad news that Doug Marlette was killed in a car crash on Tuesday morning. He was the creator of Kudzu and the great character Rev. Will B. Dunn. Most recently there has been the very amusing semi-annual summer series on the inter-faith sports league. He […]
Well after a delayed flight I arrived in the capital of Slovenia, safe and sound. The room is very nice at Hotel Lev and I am settling in to finish my paper (with my socks and “things” hanging to dry in the bathroom; they wanted €2,80 to wash a pair […]
The family just jetted of back to the US and I have a 12 hour (now down to 10) wait ahead of me. Plusses: Gatwick has more comfortable seats than most and their benches have no arms so children can lied down to catch some sleep. Sadly I do not […]
UPDATE: £54 to fill up the rental car. That is $108! Not to my liking. And, for the record, I do not think that a similar approach of raising fuel taxes will help the US in any way. But that is another debate for another day. Starbucks coffee in England […]