This is the paper I presented to the Chronicle-Ezra-Nehemiah and Exile combined session. I was invited to speak about how the destruction and restoration of Jerusalem can be understood through the waters of Katrina. I have images that go with this (see a few images from Katrina at my flickr account) that I will post [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conference’
Bibliobloggers Dinner
Was excellent! Thanks to Jim West for organizing it. It is a shame, however, that he and Chris Tilling felt they had to succumb to the siren call of Bourbon Street.
The overwhelming SBL
I have actually been in NOLA since Thursday. I spent my first few days meeting with old friends at Tulane and in Covington (where we lived for 6 years). (I took a few pictures that you can see here.)
So yesterday SBL started in earnest. Several folks have blogged or twittered about how busy and overwhelming [...]
(re)Settled in NOLA (and pictures from Katrina)
If you follow my twitter feed (and no reason you should, do you really want to know what I ate last night?) you would know that after some flight delays I landed in NOLA yesterday afternoon. Depending upon how long you have read this blog you may not know that I spend my first 9 [...]
SBL Section Title
Now that I am ensconced in my hotel room I have some time to glance through the conference program. So far one section title stood out enough to merit a comment (leaving aside the plethora of gratuitous use of “liminal”):
21-127 “Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible” - So these are women biblical scholars who are finding [...]
