Willem Smelik, the President of the International Organization for Targumic Studies, has sent round the announcement for registering for the IOSOT, IOSCS, IOMS, IOQS, and IOTS conference.
Dear All,
I would like to remind you to register before the end of April to benefit from lower fees.
For registration, please use the following website:
http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/iosot/general/registration.htm
For accommodation, see
http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/pro/iosot/general/accomodation.htm
For hotels in close [...]
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SBL Proposals Due: Aramaic Studies and Blogging
If you have been procrastinating now is the time to get your paper proposals in! Don’t forget Aramaic Studies and Blogging and Online Publication Sections.
Ryken interviewed by CT
There is a very good interview with Wheaton College’s new president Philip Ryken on CT online. You can read it all here. A snippet relevant to my earlier comments.
What do you think the role of college president will demand from you that being the pastor of a large church didn’t?
One of the main things that [...]
Phil Ryken named as 8th President of Wheaton College
The news came out this weekend that Dr. Philip Ryken will be the Eighth President of Wheaton College. I met Phil while at Oxford, he arrived a year before we did and left (as I recall) a year before us as well. He is clearly a very intelligent individual and has been very prolific in [...]
Should information be free? (Or: giving away your education)
Tony Pittman of Real Tech is in an interesting conversation regarding whether or not information should be free and, specifically what is the model being developed by universities that are places courses online. The commentator wrote:
Based on what I heard about Harvard and MIT offering free classes, I extended the question a bit and asked [...]
