Translating my thoughts into words.
Psa. 50.16 But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes,
or take my covenant on your lips?
17 For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.
18 You make friends with a thief when you see one,
and you keep company with adulterers.”
From Morning Prayer for 23 July 2009.
We are only a year away from the triennial IOSOT meeting and its associated meetings which includes the IOTS. The Congress will be held at the University of Helsinki and the associated meetings will overlap a bit more this time which should help to reduce costs, 10 days in Slovenia was great, but tough on the budget.
So with the Congress only a year away it is time to announce the call for papers. It is shaping up to be a very good IOTS meeting with Steven Fraade and Dineke Houtman confirmed for two of our three keynote addresses.
Please forward this call and feel free to this link to the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies site.
International Organization for Targum Studies
Sixth Meeting
HELSINKI, FINLAND
August 4-6, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th meeting of the IOTS will cover a wide range of topics related to Targum Studies:
Philology;
Typology and Genre;
Translation Strategies and Theory;
Exegesis;
Theology;
Text-criticism and Manuscript Studies;
Relationship to Rabbinic Literature.
We are pleased to announce a call for short papers in any of these categories. Papers should be of twenty-minutes length, allowing ten additional minutes for discussion. The deadline for paper proposals is September 15, 2009, and March 1, 2010 for the submission of written abstracts.
DATE
The sixth meeting of the IOTS will be held from August 4-6, 2010 in conjunction with the XXth Congress of IOSOT, the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, and other specialized congresses (IOQS, IOSCS, IOMS), to be held from 1st to 6th August 2010 in Helnsinki, Finland. All information on these congresses, registration, accommodation, etc. can be found on http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/iosot/abstracts/iosot.htm.
PAPER PROPOSALS
If you are interested in participating and presenting a paper, please send your proposal (title and/or subject of paper) to:
Dr. Willem Smelik,
willem.smelik @ ucl.ac.uk / willem.smelik @ gmail.com
Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London
Foster Court, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Please forward this call for papers to any student or scholar you think may be interested.
Whatever was actually behind my problems (described here) they are gone with the latest .1 update. Now the Dashboard looks and behaves as it should!
First to put a few things into what I hope is some perspective about my views on this subject. Preliminary to the preliminaries is the fact that I readily confess that economics is not my bailiwick, so I cannot really offer any viable solutions because I know enough to know that I do not know the practical impact of such policies. That being said…
The question is, what is the best answer? What interests me most now is how some of my biblioblogging (or at least biblioblog reading) colleagues are assessing the situation. I have written previously on this topic and I have found the comments very thought provoking and interesting. Most recently I posted a video that compared wait times for appointments between Atlanta and Boston (Boston because MA has a “universal” healthcare plan such as Obama is proposing) There are lots of reasons to criticize the video and it presents only one view, to be sure, but I posted it to illicit comment for my edification (selfish, perhaps) and it has done and I thank you all for that.2
Apparently it has also cost me a reader which is unfortunate but part of the risks we take. This blog has always been and will always be a reflection of me and my interests which are broader than just biblical or rabbinic studies. Thus we encroach upon politics here and I post comics often (and sometimes, like now, both at once!). I make no apologies for that, but I do value your reading and your comments, so can we dig down a bit deeper on this question of a “Christian” approach to healthcare? (more…)
