Scot McKnight of Jesus Creed is reviewing Dawkin’s latest. He provides links to other reviews and sets up some nice snippets. Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion has provided many of us with plenty to talk about and I want to say thanks for the conversation. Some have written to me […]
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MP3 Player Ownership by Class Originally uploaded by colecamp.From Cole Camplese. Very interesting stat and my guess is that the numbers will only rise.
Thanks to Jim W. for bringing this to our attention. ————————————————– The Jesus Seminar Squared In an attempt to move beyond the work of the Jesus Seminar, which debated the acts and words of Jesus, a new project will attempt to discuss and debate whether Jesus really existed or not. […]
Thanks Tyler! Great work. Biblical Studies Carnival – Best of 2006 Biblical Studies Carnival – Best of 2006 Welcome to the Biblical Studies Carnival Best of 2006 post. In what I hope will become an annual event, this special edition of the Biblical Studies Carnival will showcase some of the […]
The point of this article is that the pres. of UM was “barraged” with email urging them to comply with the new ban on preferences< The University of Michigan’s president, Mary Sue Coleman, and other officials there were barraged with e-mail last fall urging them to comply with a new […]
A review of this week’s posts. Don’t worry, I don’t intend on making this a habit. 🙂 But in case you would like an audio summary of the stories I covered this week, here it is!
Thanks to CH for passing this along! I will definitely bear this in mind when I come to grading this semester. Innovative grading systems Daniel J. Solove at Concurring Opinions has posted a helpful Guide to Grading Exams. Those of you in higher education may wish to incorporate this information […]
The NTCS Home Page has moved! I am the internet editor of the newsletter and since I am no longer at Tulane we are moving the site. Unfortunately when the domain targum.org expired someone snatched it up and is now demanding payment for it so… Targum.info is the new domain […]
Interesting study…. History Ph.D.’s: In and Out New data provide look at admission and completion rates of doctoral programs. The analysis — which was done by Robert B. Townsend, the history association’s assistant director for research and publications — also looked at the impact of program size on completion rates. […]