Translating my thoughts into words.
That Jim West would pay $200 for a photo of me and that Jim West would only pay $200 for a photo of me. (Apparently my beard leads to lower value than others.) He clearly has a predilection for Jesus scholars as Crossley and Goodacre each go for $1k.
I suppose this is about like a lightening strike close by. At the first you are just petrified with fear and then, when you realize that you are still alive and unhurt, you are tremendously relieved.
I have been tagged by Doug Chaplin of MetaCatholic with a meme of three. Three rules, tag three people. If this were by post it would be illegal, but here goes anyone (because I am flattered to be tagged, that’s how needy I am).
Rule 1) List three reasons for your blogging.
Rule 2) List these rules.
Rule 3) Tag three others with the thread.
Working out of order, I have already complied with Rule 2. Now, to list my three reasons for blogging. The truth is, I could just nick Doug’s and it would be accurate.
Now, to show my thanks I will annoy three of you. As is expected by now I must tag Dr. Jim West and Chris Tilling. I will also tag my friend in Aramaic studies (although he is far my superior) Dr. Ed Cook.
Today I interviewed Chris Tilling of Chrisendom via Skype. He is surely known to everyone who reads this blog (especially since his blog gets 10 times the traffic of mine, thus the reason for my interviewing him, trying to buy some friends! 
Add me to your blogroll, please? And doesn’t that sound just a little too much like bogroll?). He is a doctoral student working on Pauline divine Christology – looking at the question as to whether it was a divine Christology or not. (Listen to get a brief summary of his view.) A fun chat with a very likable chap!
Previous Biblicapodcasts:
And the Brothers Podcasts (“two brothers, two professors, and at least two points of view”) can be found here.
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Kevin has done a tremendous job wit the 27th carnival. It is a veritable midway of musings. One particular thread that I had not noticed this month was regarding translations (see below) but for the whole experience head over to
Biblical Studies Blog Carnival XXVII
To the right as we move down the midway is the translation booth. Zondervan posted an article by Karen H. Jobes entitled “Bible Translation as Bilingual Quotation”. They issued an open invitation to bloggers to respond to the article and several took up the challenge. Jim Getz at Kethubim criticized the article in his post “How to Lie with Statistics: Bible Translation Edition”. At Ancient Hebrew Poetry, John Hobbins wrote two pieces in response: “Karen Jobes Squares Off against the Essential Literalists” and “Defining Faithful Translation: Why Jobes is Only Half Right”. The Epistle of Thomas joined the discussion with “Verbosity in English Translations”. Wayne Leman at Better Bibles Blog has a short discussion that contains links to some additional posts on Jobes’s paper.
(Via Blue Cord.)
A reminder from Kevin of BlueCord.org. Be sure to go to his site for all the details and to submit your own.
Call for Submissions: Biblical Studies Blog Carnival XXVII
It is almost time for another Biblical Studies Blog Carnival. The next blog carnival will be hosted here on Blue Cord. We are approaching the end of the month, so that means it is time to start submitting your favorite blog posts from February to be included in the carnival. Please submit your nominations for the posts you found to be most engaging, most entertaining, most informative, or most __________ (insert your own adjective here). We try to include the widest variety of topics possible, so feel free to include anything you want — within the following guidelines:
- Academic: Posts must represent an academic approach to the discipline of biblical studies rather than, for instance, a devotional approach. This does not mean that posts have to be written by an academic, PhD, or professor — amateurs are more than welcome! Nor does it mean that posts must take a historical critical approach — methodological variety is also encouraged.
- Biblical Studies: Blogs must be broadly focused on discipline of biblical studies and cognate disciplines, including Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Christian Origins/New Testament, Intertestamental/Second Temple literature (e.g., LXX, Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, etc.), Patristics, Biblical Criticisms and Hermeneutics, Biblical Studies and popular culture, among other things.
The blog carnival is also the place to draw attention to new blogs. If you are aware of any new biblioblogs that have been started during the month of February, be sure to let us know.
You may submit nominations for the blog carnival by mailing them to me at kwilson@bluecord.org. In your e-mail, please include the following information:
- The title and permalink URL of the blog post you wish to nominate and the author’s name or pseudonym.
- A short (two or three sentence) summary of the blog post.
- The title and URL of the blog on which it appears (please note if it is a group blog).
- Include “Biblical Studies Carnival XXVII” in the subject line of your e-mail.
- Your own name and e-mail address.
While the carnival tries to include as many submissions as possible, it is not always possible to accept all nominations. The carnival is intended to highlight the best posts from the previous month, and judgment calls sometimes have to be made on whether a particular post is suitable for the carnival. We do try to include at least one post from each blog that it submitted.
For more information, please see the Biblical Studies Blog Carnival page.
(Via Blue Cord.)
