(The targum texts here are from the Accordance modules, which were built upon the CAL texts.) The targumic versions of our verse under consideration do not show much interest in the question of how (or if) to render עִמָּ֖הּ. MT: Gen. 3.6 :ותרא האשה כי טוב העץ למאכל וכי תאוה […]

Jimmy Johnson, creator of Arlo and Janis one of my daily comic reads critiques the Toyota Takoma ad as one of the most insensitive (“dumb”) ads given the recent events here in the Gulf South. I have to agree. Those of us watching it thought it was rather lame, to […]

Beware of claims that archaeology disproves—or proves—the Bible is true. By Christian M.M. Brady | posted 09/24/2003 This is an article I wrote originally for the now defunct (but once very fine) mag re:Generation Quarterly. When it went online in Christianity Today (September 2003) Jim Davila noted it and offered […]

From the Winston-Salem Journal. I meant to post it to my Religion class, but it is an interesting article and worth posting here as well. Americans don’t need separation of church and state nearly as much as we need to have separation of church from television, movies and the chronically […]

This is too funny not to share!

I should remind folks that the above link is the homepage for the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies. From there you can also reach the homepage for the International Organization for Targumic studies. The NTCS site includes online editions of the newsletter, bibliography, and targumic texts in English translation.

And on behalf of the rest of Louisiana I would like to say “we don’t know him no how.”

Mark Goodacre published this on his blog. If I am not much mistaken this collection of essays is from papers delivered at a conference/colloquium hosted by our neighbor New Orleans Baptist Seminary http://nobts.edu/. They have brought a number of excellent biblical scholars and theologians to our region for lectures and […]

Uh, no. I would say it is not.

Supporters of Women’s College at Tulane U. Rally Against Plans to Merge It Out of Existence By KATHERINE S. MANGAN About 150 women ranging in age from 18 to 84 chanted, sang, and pleaded with Tulane University administrators on Friday not to dismantle their alma mater, Newcomb College, an undergraduate […]