This is from Kevin. Thanks for the heads up! What’s Wrong with the SBL? The Chronicle of Higher Education has a provocative piece by Jacques Berlinerblau entitled “What’s Wrong with the Society of Biblical Literature?” As I and many fellow bibliobloggers will be descending on Washington, DC, next week for […]
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From one of the strips I read is a post about another strip I read. Sheldon is moving! Dave Kellett Needs Help BLC’s Dave Kellett needs your help. He’s moving his daily strip, Sheldon, to http://www.sheldoncomics.com tomorrow. He’s leaving United Media to go completely independent… which means he needs help […]
This PBS story was the Religion and Ethics Newsweekly’s “Election 2008 Preview” but it serves just as well for a post mid-term election consideration of what is to come. Do the 2006 midterm elections set the stage for a highly politicized religious environment in 2008 and for more religious appeals […]
In comments on Stephen Cook’s post I asserted that scholars outside of the field of biblical literature proper (e.g., English faculty who teach “The Bible as Literature”) often deal with what Stephen referred to as “the white elephant in the room: Scripture by its nature is all about claims to […]
Stephen Cook posted a reply to my earlier post about David and commented that he had not heard a good homily on David in a while. I don’t know if they are good, but I offer two that I delivered several years ago. For those who do not want to […]
I am not sure how I missed this post from last week and most of my audience already knows about Accordance, but if you don’t and you use a Mac (or get a Mac if you want ot use the best Bible software out there) check out Accordance. Their targum, […]
My wife has posted an email and request from a friend back in Louisiana. Please do not let these people be forgotten. Thanksgiving donations: If you are thinking about making a difference this Thanksgiving you can send money to help feed some folks at a FEMA trailer park in Baker, […]
I love David and the narratives surrounding his life and at some point I would like to write about him. In the meantime many great folks have already done so. See Stephen Cook’s recent entry: David: A hermeneutic Entree into Scripture The character of David’s portrait in Bible invites the […]
…we need more than just being “sincere.” In case and when the strip disappears, the dialog is this: Charlie Brown – [mocking Linus with Lucy at his side] “Look at me… I’m the ‘Great Pumpkin’! “I rise up out of the pumpkin patch, and bring toyws to all the children […]
The latest Biblical Studies Carnival is up: Biblical Studies Carnival XI Michael Pahl is the host and he has done an excellent job, drawing together a range of great posts from a variety of blogs, with succinct and stylish comments. (Via NT Gateway Weblog.)