Thank you CH for a job very well done! Biblical Studies Carnival XV, in Memory of Bruce Manning Metzger Welcome to the fifteenth Biblical Studies Carnival. I am pleased to host the carnival on such an auspicious numeration (too bad it couldn’t be a multiple of 6, then I’d be […]
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The SBL Call for Papers deadline is still March 1 (midnight tonight!), and I encourage all Aramaists out there to propose a paper for our session! But AAR has extended their deadline to March 7th. Call for Papers Deadline Extended to March 7! The 2007 AAR Call for Papers deadline […]
NPR’s Morning Edition just did a fairly balanced piece on the announcement of the Tomb movie and book. Only a summary is up at the moment, but the audio will go up shortly after the program ends and a transcript by tomorrow.
In keeping with my laziness of merely pointing to other bloggers who have done more work on this, I will point readers to Tyler Williams’ excellent round up of the latest and greatest biblioblog discussions regarding the Talpiut tomb. The Jesus/Talpiot Tomb: Around the Blogosphere The hype surrounding the forthcoming […]
I have been following this story, but I have not been blogging since I do not yet have anything to say. Jim has a number of good links below and like him I will wait until I can review all the evidence before commenting in any detail. The Talpiot Tomb […]
From Awilum. I had considered applying to Tübingen for graduate work precisely because (aside from being great in our field) there was no tuition. My interests changed and I don’t regret my time or degree from Oxford, but the student loans… ugh. The End of a Free Ride? Möglicherweise Bloomberg […]
You may recall our conversation regarding Google Bombs (or Googlebombs) a month ago. Well, it looks like Google has had a change of heart. Or at least a few folks who work there have. They apparently got tired of some folks (not yours truly, of course) thinking that Google itself […]
Things that make you go “hmmmm.” I have to say that I am not close enough to K-12 in PA yet to know the details of teacher unions, but I can say that in NOLA they were not very helpful at improving the schools. Jobs Blasts Teachers Unions Filed under: […]
Tyler Williams at Codex reports on the Religious Studies Review: Religion and the Internet I just received the latest edition of the Religious Studies Review (Volume 32, number 4, October 2006), which is a special issue on Religion and the Internet edited by Christopher Helland. The volume highlights and evaluates […]
Over at Ralph the Sacred River Ed Cook wonders where this mis-translation of TgPsJ t Gen 4 comes from. I notice that it is common to quote the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to Genesis 4:1 as Mahlon Smith does at his website, where we find this translation: And Adam knew that his […]