I would be lying if I said it wasn’t hard to see all the elementary school kids, Mack’s classmates, get on the bus for the new year without him. It is hard to see all the pictures on Facebook that our friends are posting of their kids and grandkids getting on […]
Elizabeth shared this daily email from the writings of Henri Nouwen that happens to be about parents who have lost a child. We have discussed this often and my view continues to be firm; we must live. If we collapse, if we “die” metaphorically if not literally, because of Mack’s […]
WARNING: This post will not be encouraging and might even frustrate you a good bit. It did me. As is often the case lately, I want to write this morning, but I am struggling to find the words or, more accurately, words that I think would be acceptable. Then I […]
I have noticed that the way to get the most traffic in the bibliobloggingsphere is to write about Creation and Gen. 1-3. Heck, I have done it myself. But here at last is the true account, by Wiley. And the answer is: Alien poop.
I have mentioned before that Mack and I would read comics together every night. For a while it was hard to read comics again because of that fact. But at the same time comics and cartoonists have also helped me cope. So last week when Dan Piraro posted this comic […]
Yesterday was our 20th anniversary. I am truly blessed, as I have said many times to E, she is the miracle in my life. She shared this quote that sums it up beautifully. “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for […]
Jim West has the “the Avignonian Papacy Edition” of the Biblical Studies Carnival for July. I am not sure where the official one is (I will be happy to post it if someone will direct me to it). It was kind of Jim to highlight my post on “The Experience […]
A long title. I shall have to find a shorter version, but it gets at the challenge we often find in Targumic studies. For those who are not familiar with the Targumim a very simplistic description is this: Aramaic translation of the biblical text PLUS interpretive material. A little more […]
Jim West posted this response to an AP tweet: From the twitter- @AP: Rick Warren gives 1st sermon since son’s suicide, saying “God knows what it’s like to lose a son”: http://t.co/FwRc10ASFf -SS But does he? Does God, in infinite knowledge, experience reality just like we do? Such a god seems to […]
A great name in Aramaic studies has passed. He was always very kind and generous to me (and my book). I am saddened to hear of his death but glad to remember the wonderful contributions he made to our field, not least in Targum studies. זכרונו לברכה