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 […]
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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.
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 […]
I was originally going to link to this article and simply point out how ridiculous it was to suggest that Targum to Chronicles was from the sixth century BCE. Then I started reading more carefully the full article (the “targum” reference came up in a Google alert, hence I knew […]
I received the following email from Ziony Zevit. Dear Colleagues I write to draw your attention to the two NAPH sessions at the forthcoming SBL meetings that will deal with Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew. The catalyst for this year’s sessions, and the two (or three) planned for 2010, is the […]
You know there are times when I get really frustrated and a wee bit depressed because there is just not enough time. I love my job as an administrator and the work that I do but it means I have very little time for reading blogs and even less for […]
International Organization for Qumran Studies Seventh Meeting HELSINKI, FINLAND AUGUST 2–4, 2010 Call for Papers The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions For the special topic of this seventh meeting of the IOQS, we invite papers that discuss any aspect of the transmission, use, or interpretation of biblical traditions in the Scrolls […]
(You can tell this will be an academic-type post because I used a colon in my title.) In the past few weeks we have had several different events, two conferences and one speaker, on campus relating to climate change. Conservative Christians, I was told, refuse to accept climate change because […]
As immediately recognizable R. Crumb’s work is to me, I cannot say that I know much about him. Apparently, however, his various isms are well documented. I and many other bibliobloggers have been linked by J. K. Gayle at the blog “Aristotle’s Feminist Subject.” bibliobloggers on Robert Crumb: few mentions […]