The Chronicle of Higher Education has a very interesting chart, proportion of doctorates awarded to women by discipline over the last thirty years. All fields Education Engineering Humanities Life sciences Physical sciences Professional/ other Social sciences 1977 24.8 34.7 2.8 36.3 20.8 9.8 21.2 28.7 1987 35.3 55.1 6.5 44.4 […]
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Later this month I will be speaking at our Penn State Abington Campus. I was just looking up the details when I noticed who will be speaking 5 days after myself. I don’t think I will be the only one more interested in his talk, just look at his title! […]
Today! The schedule of events can be found here. My opening comments for Panel 2 are more or less what was posted on Friday. Our panelists are listed below. I spent some time last night with respondent, Mark Wallace. He described his theology as “Christian animism.” Wow. He seems like […]
This morning I received an email from Brill letting me know that my article “The Use of Eschatological Lists within the Targumim of the Megilloth” is now in print, Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume 40, Numbers 4-5, 2009 , pp. 493-509(17). Well, it is available online, but will not […]
I write this with the sense that I am in some way cheating, but if David Pogue can write an entire book via Twitter (in which one of my tweets is quoted) then perhaps I can call upon the greater knowledge and wisdom of the biblioblogging world to aid me […]
For those keeping track of this Daniel McClellan has links to a number of the blog posts from around Biblioblogdom that address the recent announcement of affiliation. He links to one of my posts, from yesterday, but there is an earlier one as well. Just follow the links in the […]
Jim W has posted my thoughts on where the Steering Committee needs to focus our attention over the next year, leading up to the first session in Atlanta. To place this in full context, I have appended the preface I had in my email to the group. I also have […]
I have spent most of the day either in meetings or taking phone calls from reporters. It was a good day all in all. The reporters were interested in the recent story that broke about our honors college’s capital campaign (see the note below). What I wanted to note about […]
Jim West announced the new status of bibliobloggers vis a vis SBL last week. This led to some reaction by folks like John Hobbins. I have posted a brief comment on Jim’s site, but let me post it here as well with point (3)(2) added. When I read Jim’s announcement I […]
Following my post yesterday David Everson passed along this good news: Daniel O. McClellan has a link to an online pdf download of Rendsburg’s book. Here is the actual page: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=5 That link is now defunct, use this: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/redaction-of-genesis Here is the blog: http://maklelan.blogspot.com/2009/01/gary-rendsburgs-redaction-of-genesis.html This is a slim but very good […]