From Paul Flesher, our IOTS President: The Fifth Congress of the International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, 12-13 July 2007, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It will be held in conjunction with the XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament […]
My wife, Elizabeth, has started a new blog: The Unlikely Missionary. The title comes from the title of her novel, The Unlikely Missionary, the coming-of-age story of a young woman. Her notes will cover far more than just the novel, however, so please take a look!
This could be interesting. The article is subscription only but the gist is easy enough to get from below. “Citizendium” Can scholars build a better version of Wikipedia? Larry Sanger, a co-founder who has since become a critic of the open-source encyclopedia, intends to find out. This week Mr. Sanger […]
Jim West shares with us the news of the passing of a great scholar and gentleman. “Well done, good and faithful servant” is the phrase that comes to mind. May light perpetual shine upon him. The Sad News Of James Barr’s Death No one even remotely familiar with Biblical Studies […]
My life is a little busier than in the past. This is a light week for me (click to see the full size, images blurred to protect the innocent):
Having just made my first pilgrimage to the Cube on Monday I find this story very interesting…. This is from The Unofficial Apple Weblog so please note that I am not the author what is linked (although I agree with everything she said). (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Can I get an “Amen”? (Be sure to go to the direct Comics.com site to credit the artist, Mark Leiknes.)
A very interesting survey from the Social Science Research Council (“The survey was conducted and analyzed by two sociologists, Neil Gross of Harvard University and Solon Simmons of George Mason University”) reported by IHE today. Listen to many critics of higher education, and you would think that faith had been […]
I have been asked that question in one form or another many, many times. Now it is in print! (More or less.) From the Stars of David | The Jewish Exponent What’s in a name department: Christian M. M. Brady, associate professor of classical/Jewish studies at Tulane U. — and […]