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 […]
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This is behind a pay wall and doesn’t reveal much that you don’t already know, but I thought I would note this piece from CHE. Scholars Try to Piece Together Whats Best Done With the Dead Sea Scrolls – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. The story will be […]
The Washington Post ran a very interesting exposé-type piece on Sunday by Martha Wezler revealing that a Torah rescuing Rabbi’s miraculous claims about his discoveries may be less than true. Rabbi to the Rescue: Menachem Youlus is called the Indiana Jones of Torah recovery and restoration. But there are doubts […]
I received the following email today. It seems the Qumran Institute at the University of Groningen is looking for a candidate. Dear colleagues, The Qumran Institute is looking for a PhD candidate for the project ‘The Jewish Revolt against Rome: Religious Groups and the Shaping of Identities in First-Century Judaea’. […]
John Hobbins has an excellent post problematizing myth, “There are (no) myths in the Bible.” It would be useless to try and summarize it here, please go and read it in full, but I think the nubbins are here: Mythological narrative narrowly defined is relatively hard to come by in […]
I am on the road so this will be brief, but I encourage everyone to take a look at this article in the Chronicle (it appears to be freely available and not behind a pay wall) by Michael Roth, “Beyond Critical Thinking.” He points out that while developing in ourselves […]
John has an intriguing post regarding Lam. 3:51: Lamentations 3:51: A New Proposal This is a notoriously problematic passage and John has an interesting proposal for a textual reconstruction. Of greater interest to me is his broader conclusions that I am not sure that I can agree with. On this […]
This one might be a little more challenging and is not directly Bible related. So I thought I would specify that this is a professor’s office to keep it somewhat loosely connected to the general themes of my blog.