A tweet good enough for a post:, God texts the 10 Commandments. My fav:
3. no omg’s
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Last Call for SBL Mid Atlantic Regional Meeting
I have been intending to submit a paper, but I confess I have not. So Jeremy’s notice buys me more time to procrastinate! No! Get your papers submitted now!
Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to take a moment to remind you once again to keep
the submissions coming for our 2009 SBL Mid Atlantic
Regional meeting. If you have not done so already, please
email me your submissions by FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 at
schipper@temple.edu. We will be meeting on March 26-27,
2009 in Baltimore. For further information regarding
submission guidelines, awards, locations, and hotel
reservations, please see the attached “call for papers” pdf.
(I have also copied this the pdf into the body of this email
in case you have trouble with the attachment.) PLEASE FEEL
FREE TO POST THE CALL FOR PAPERS AND ENCOURAGE YOUR FRIENDS,
COLLEAGUES, OR STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE.
Information regarding conference registration will become
available in the coming months.All the Best,
Jeremy Schipper
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Department of Religion
Temple UniversitySBL Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator
What does the Book of Ruth teach us?
“…the book of Ruth, an idle, bungling story, foolishly told, nobody knows by whom about a strolling country girl creeping slily to bed to her cousin Boaz. Pretty stuff indeed to be called the word of God! It is, however, one of the best books in the Bible, for it is free from murder and rapine.” -Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason Part II (London, 1795), p. 23.
“This scroll tells us nothing of cleanliness or of uncleanliness, either of prohibition or permission. For what purpose, then, was it written? To teach how great is the reward of those who do deeds of kindness.” R. Ze’ira, Ruth R. II 14.
As cited in “Jewish Exegesis of the Book of Ruth” by DRG Beattie, p. 203.
Bibliobloggers at SBL
Douglas Mangum of Biblia Hebraica has a nice listing of Bibliobloggers presenting at SBL. It is quite a list! We were working a Biblioblogger get together but so far we have not had much luck. I will keep you posted! In the meantime, do check out the growing list of papers on offer by our guild.
As pointed out, Aramaic Studies offers a two-for-one!
Bonus Session – Two for the Price of One: SBL24-103, Aramaic Studies
11/24/2008, 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM, Room: Meeting Room 309 – CC
1. Ed Cook, Ralph the Sacred River (1st presenter, time 4:00 pm)
4Q541, Fragment 24 Reconsidered (Again)
2. Chris Brady, Targuman (5th presenter, estimated time 6:00 pm)
The Development of the Character of Ruth in Targum Ruth
The Day of the LORD
[As I have said in the past, the text of my sermons are not really meant to be read since they are more like a detailed outline than proper prose.]
Amos 5:18-24
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Matthew 25:1-13
The Day of the Lord
Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: Alas for you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you want the day of the LORD? It is darkness, not light.
We are all, I am sure, far more familiar with the last portion of our Old Testament reading from this morning, those words made fresh for the last 40 years by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream.” But as powerful as those words are, they do not have their full meaning unless the preceding verses are read with them. And they begin with an odd even paradoxical challenge from the prophet, declaring that the day of the Lord is darkness and not light. Surely that cannot be right! That is not how we think of the “day of the Lord” is it? Actually, that is a good question, how do you think of the “day of the Lord”? (more…)
