Today I want to continue my running commentary on Genesis, moving on to the second creation account, beginning at Gen. 2:4. It is usual at this point to comment on where the second narrative begins. Gen. 2.4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were […]
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This was a talk I gave at Penn State Abington on this past Thursday, October 22, 2009. I had embedded the slides into the podcast, but for some reason they are not showing up. I don’t think they are vital to the talk so you are not missing much. If […]
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 […]
Or God, or…it is really your call. The New Yorker has the following caption contest. Go there to enter, or provide your own amusing offerings in the comments. Below is my effort. Not great, I am sure you can do better. And while poking around I came across another cartoon […]
UPDATE 2: My copy arrived in record time! I will post comments anon.UPDATE: See the end of the post for additional links to reviews. I am updating them as I come across the reviews. Most of all, see Robert Alter’s positive review in The New Republic. Genesis – Sexy, violent, […]
This comic is a little rude in its language use, but is actually pretty spot on. You can see it at the cartoonist’s site “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal” or after the jump (but don’t say I didn’t warn ya!).
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 have mentioned before that we have a couple of conferences on climate change coming up at Penn State. One that we as the honors college are hosting and one that I as a scholar and clergy am participating in. The former is “Educating for Sustainability” and the latter is “Stewardship […]
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 […]