If you have to ask what a tippet is then just ignore the following. 🙂 Tippet, ala Whip It! by Devo Crack that whip! Give the past the slip! Step on a crack! Break your momma’s back! If your stole is black and long, its a tippet! When you’re singing […]
I am looking into the laws of marriage licenses in FL and stumble across this curious law: Applicants under 16 years of age: Minors who under oath, swear that they are the parents or expected parents of a child may apply for a Marriage License. If they are already parents, […]
I was rummaging through some old floppies looking for some essays I had written back in the day when I came across this lovely verse written by a good friend. Enjoy! (We did. 🙂 Doggerel on the Occasion of the Marriage of Chris and Elizabeth When Sennacherib of old came […]
The Call for Papers for the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, to be held December 17 – 19, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California is now online at www.brandeis.edu/ajs . The AJS Online Proposal Submission Site will be available starting March 1, […]
This is good information for Mac users. Apparently Leap-A is not (yet) too great a threat. Cutting to the chase: How would this thing get on my machine? The only way you can get the Leap-A malware on your machine is if you take some action to put it there […]
Jim Davila directs us to a review of Simi Peters’s Learning to Read Midrash, but he didn’t mention that it begins with a great line: The Biblical text is sparse. Read literally, straight through, you’d get the impression that P.G. Wodehouse wouldn’t do well among the nomads
“This is the Weblog of Steven Harris and it is dedicated to exploring issues related to Theology and Biblical Studies.” But it also has some funky drawings he did of NT Wright. Thanks to Evan for the link.