Jeremy Schipper has sent out the call for papers for the 2011 MAR-SBL. I presented last year for the first time at a regional meeting and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was great to meet up with so many “local” scholars and I hope to go again this year. With all due respect to Larry, [...]
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SBL – What’s Old is New
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.” Eccl. 1:9 (NRSV) Today SBL members (and no doubt AAR members, but I dropped that membership a few years ago…) received a letter announcing that the old order shall be reestablished! I am [...]
Leaving SBL, faith and reason
A number of folks have commented on Prof. Hendel’s declaration that he is not renewing his SBL membership. (As always, John Hobbins has an incredibly thoughtful take on matters.) Today SBL members received an email from “SBL” (personified!) and I share it with others below. My thoughts can be summarized as this: the bigger the [...]
Society of Biblical Literature 2010 Sessions Posted
SBL has published the sessions for the upcoming conference in Atlanta. The link is here and I will be presenting in the following three sessions (Sorry, all the links take you back to the SBL site. I will clean that up later.): Session Id TBD Aramaic Studies 11/21/2010 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Room [...]
“God is not present in the classroom” – Testing podcast plugin part 2
I am still testing this plugin and I thought for this test I would put my SBL paper from 2006 where I discussed how I teach the Bible in a secular context. For those interested, the plugin is now working (or tell me if you don’t see the podcast below!) and I am using PowerPress [...]
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