This year’s SBL Schedule of session is now up! S19-54 Aramaic Studies 11/19/2007 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Anaheim – MM Michael Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem From Joseph to Daniel to Antiochus: The Literary Development of Daniel 2 (20 min) Discussion (10 min) Robert R. Phenix, Jr., Saint […]
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Today I had the great pleasure of interviewing Rick Brannan of Ricoblog. Rick was a great guest and talked about going from Econ to Pauline Epistles to programming. Rick has also been working for Logos Bible Software (14 years this month!) and gave this Mac user a nice summary of […]
I hope that we can do more of this. I am still waiting for an unnamed (because I still want to publish with them 😉 ) publisher to grant me permission to post some of my articles. “Hearing the Children’s Cries” Ten years ago I published my first article in […]
I know many in the biblioblogging world have been following this story. Today and ad came out in the NY Times with the signatures of over 300 presidents, including the presidents of my past and current institutions. The statement is on the American Jewish Committee’s website and reads, in part, […]
Some of you may know that for the last six years I have been the online editor for the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies. This site is now located at http://targum.info and we are now taking the newsletter to an online only format. As part of the change we […]
Kevin Wilson of BlueCord.org has contact a few of us and is calling for more contributors to a book project on Blogging the Bible. Although I am down for “Blogging for Scholarly Writing” (i.e., will it help one get tenure?) I am also intriqued with idea that blogging has, in […]
The following is cross-posted from my engage.shc site. For those who don’t know, in addition to posting witty blog entries about biblical studies, Apple gadgets, and religious humor, I am also the Dean of the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State. So, without further ado… I read a number of […]
Below is an edited transcript of a chat I had this afternoon. I have an IM account (drcbrady) for chatting with students so it is not rare that I get messages popping up from folks I do not recognize. There are moments when how I decide to reply is very […]
I don’t think it is too early to begin thinking about this fall’s SBL, do you? I will be there for the duration and I have SBL’s permission, assuming the permission of our speakers, to record the papers in our Aramaic Studies session for podcasting purposes. But what do you […]
I have been delinquent in keeping up with these reports while trying to get back on top of work here in the office. Fortunately Jim is always on top of everything! (I meant nothing untoward by that! Get your head out of the gutter Chris Tilling.) Another Report From the […]