Tomorrow morning I head off with the fam to the UK and then on to the IOTS/IOSOT conference in Slovenia. Needless to say, given the news lately, we are somewhat nervous. Please keep us in your prayers. Blogging will of necessity be a bit more sporadic over the next few […]
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The very well done Biblical Studies Carnival XIX is now up! Welcome, one and all, Step Right Up to Biblical Studies Blog Carnival 19. Thank you for the honor of hosting this month’s carnival here at Biblische Ausbildung. There are plenty of attractions here, so let’s hurry in… Be sure […]
It is always interesting how people summarize their data, very telling. My favorite line of the summary below, “they pray at least sometimes.” Yup, every time I stub my toe. Did you know… While 49.9% of students consider themselves to be “strongly” spiritual, 36.1% consider themselves to be “strongly” religious. […]
They might not like the Bible, but they can allude to it. The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: What’s in a Name? Iowa State Mulls a ‘Life-Skills Assistant,’ Not a Chaplain Iowa State University’s Athletics Council has approved a plan to hire a “volunteer life-skills assistant” to provide religious counseling to […]
I was out of town this weekend and this week I am getting ready to hit the road for three weeks so blogging will be intermittent. I hope to post shortly, however, on Brevard Childs’ passing. His work was formative in my academic development, as it was for so many, […]
This is truly sad news. Stephen Cook is reporting that Prof. Michael O’Connor, perhaps best known for co-authoring the magnificent work Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax with Bruce Waltke, has died of cancer. He was a great scholar and will be sorely missed. Let light perpetual shine upon him. Biblische […]
Two months ago we had a gala dinner to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Schreyer Honors College. It was a great evening with wonderful people, especially the students (to get a sense of the amazing students I am bless to work with be sure to check […]
This is just too funny and must be posted in full. Please do the right thing and check out Michael’s Site Euangelion. Top Ten Funny Things I’d Like to see at SBL I know it is earlier than my normal rant about SBL. But here are ten strange, funny, and […]
For now I am just going to post Jim’s list of verses and comments. I have been wrestling with all of this since I started working on Lamentations back in 1994. In my view Lam deals with theodicy not by offering a discourse or analysis of the problem and possible […]
Here is the abstract for my IOTS paper: The Use of “Eschatological Lists” within the Targumim to the Megillot. Several of the targumim to the Megillot contain lists (songs, famines, kings, etc.) that culminate in the future or messianic era. For example, TgSS opens with the list of Ten Songs […]