Today 5 of us got together to chat about biblioblogs, SBL, and stuff. We covered blogging, teaching & tech, Hebrew Bible, U2, and tattoos (go with nun, bet, lamed). Tyler Williams – Codex http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/index.php/ Chrisian Brady – Targuman http://targuman.org/ Stephen Cook – Biblishe Ausbildung http://biblische.blogspot.com/ Kevin Wilson – BlueCord http://bluecord.org/biblioblog/ […]
We have been discussing just this subject in our sessions at SBL. See also McClay’s piece at SBL about “The Goal of Teaching Biblical and Religious Studies in the Context of an Undergraduate Education.” This is a report from the AAR conference that is concurrent with SBL (I belong to […]
Or should that be a question mark? My brother, who is teaching Supply Chain and Business Logistics (although it occurs to me that there is another better title, I am sure he will provide it ;-[/mfn], commented today that he found it odd that at SBL we read our papers […]
Today is our daughter’s 9th birthday. Happy Bday Izzy! Mom shared this at her blog. Actually, at 5:44 p.m. she will officially turn nine. We call her chocolate drops because her eyes are like two dark chocolate Lindt balls with cocoa beans inside. They are deep and beautiful. I took […]
Are greatly exaggerated. The caption of this photo reads Christian M.M. Brady, dead, said the $25 million gift will strengthen the mission of the Schreyer Honors College on a number of fronts. (Emphasis mine.) UPDATE: They have corrected the site (I felt obliged to tell them of the typo 😉 […]
UPDATE: Images from the announcment can be found here. I thought I would share with you all rather exciting news on the job front (from my other blog at http://engage.shc.psu.edu/: There is big news today! I am extremely pleased to announce that Mr. and Mrs. Schreyer have pledged an additional […]
This is just disturbing… You need Tiger and a Mac with an iSight camera. Neat iSight trick – Seeing you, seeing me Filed under: Hardware, Video, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Internet, Internet Tools, Developer Caught this on MacInTouch and I’m still a little freaked out by it. If […]
And Crossley replies here. West reject Crossley’s suggestion that “that New Testament studies can be furthered by non believers.” But again, interpreting theological texts (and that is what the New Testament is) requires a theological mindset, just as interpreting mathematical texts requires a mathematical mindset. In other words, biblical interpretation […]
Any time you can use the phrase “Going Potty in the Ancient World” I think it is worth noting. Going Potty at Qumran: Evidence of Latrines Discovered (GPAT 4) A recent news release on Eureka Alert summarizes a forthcoming article in Revue de Qumran on a remote latrine site discovered […]
If you are going to be at SBL are any of you bibliobloggers interested or willing to do a podcast at SBL? I would be happy to bring the equipment and it can be a simple matter of recording our chat around a drink. Or…if some of you are willing […]