Some of you may have seen this article from BAR already. It is very curious. The author is Edna Ullmann-Margalit and is “professor of philosophy and director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also author of Out of the Cave: […]
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The latest Review of Biblical Literature is out. I wanted to point out a review of my good friend Daniel Falk’s latest work. (We must do something about the price of books….) The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrolls Falk, Daniel K. $110.00 New York: […]
I have just finished my homily on the Fourth Words of Jesus (Matt. 27:46, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) and in reading it with Psalm 22, I realized that there are very different renderings of verse 29 in the English, 30 in the Hebrew. אכלו […]
Discussion of GV’s latest work began on blogs yesterday. Out today (but actually dated “March 24, 2008”) Daniel J Harrington, SJ has a very professional review, “No Evidence?,” in America: The National Catholic Weekly. Obviously, as this review reveals, Vermes’ book is much more comprehensive than previous reviews and interviews […]
I should preface by saying that although Prof. Vermes had formally retired by the time I was doing graduate work at Oxford I had the great honor to attend seminars and sessions with him and to copy edit DJD vol. 26 which he wrote with Philip Alexander. I can only […]
Nick has tagged me with this meme and at the risk of being removed from the Book of Blogs and Life I will shoulder my cross and bare [sic] it as bravely as I may (it is still winter here, after all). The rules: Post something rude about Zwingli. (Outrageous […]
Kevin has done a tremendous job wit the 27th carnival. It is a veritable midway of musings. One particular thread that I had not noticed this month was regarding translations (see below) but for the whole experience head over to Biblical Studies Blog Carnival XXVII To the right as we […]
As both an academic and an administrator (and someone brought in with tenure) this is disconcerting. President Loses Tenure at Delaware State U. – Chronicle.com Delaware State University’s president, Allen L. Sessoms, and five other university administrators have been stripped of tenure as part of a settlement with the university’s faculty […]
Well it is February 1st and the end of the first International Biblical Studies Writing Month. I am ashamed to say that I have not finished my primary writing goal for IBSWM, but I am close. My project is to put in article form the paper I presented this past […]
Kevin Edgecombe has posted, a day early even!, the 26th BSC. It is great, long, and is well worth the read. Wow! Masterful Kevin!