I will be there! From Blue Cord: Rick at Ricoblog and Tim at Sansblogue have suggested that biblobloggers get together after the Computer Assisted Research Group meeting (1:00-3:00) on Sunday. We will be getting together at 3:00 pm in Room 103A – CC, which is where the CARG session will […]
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Be sure to read Danny Zacharias’ excellent summary of the recent debate surrounding Berlinblau’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education critiquing SBL. Danny’s own refections are definitely worth reading. E.g., It seems clear to me that the entire point of the article is to say that the SBL isn’t […]
The forum looks nice and a few of you have checked it out before any real content was/is there. The only drawback I can see is that there is no way to receive updates on the page via RSS. So the advantages of a blog are lost (you have to […]
This is from Kevin. Thanks for the heads up! What’s Wrong with the SBL? The Chronicle of Higher Education has a provocative piece by Jacques Berlinerblau entitled “What’s Wrong with the Society of Biblical Literature?” As I and many fellow bibliobloggers will be descending on Washington, DC, next week for […]
In comments on Stephen Cook’s post I asserted that scholars outside of the field of biblical literature proper (e.g., English faculty who teach “The Bible as Literature”) often deal with what Stephen referred to as “the white elephant in the room: Scripture by its nature is all about claims to […]
In preparing for this paper, I came across this 1998 article by JZ Smith (is he related, son perhaps, of Wilfred Cantwell Smith?) “Teaching the Bible in the Context of General Education” (Teaching Theology and Religion, Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 73-78, Jun 1998). It is a very interesting read, […]
Or portions of it, I guess. It is hard to tell, but Jim West pointed this out on the XTalk list. (Actually, he has already blogged on it here and I missed it. Update your Dr. Jim West feeds everyone!)
If you are interested in keeping up with the latest podcasting going on around PSU check out “New and Cool on iTunes U”. Be sure to see the second episode, called “A Tale of Two Bradys.” 🙂
As a long time Mac user I am glad to see not only the resurgence of Apple Corp on campus, but that PSU is very heavily Apple. Inside Higher Ed has a biblical twist with their opening sentence of this story. In the beginning, there was Apple. “At one point, […]
I was going to try and provide links to the SBL Sections dealing with the above topic. Unfortunately the search function does not provide a usable link. For your convenience, I am providing the sessions and the paper topics below. I am in the session withe theme “Transforming the Curriculum” […]