I shall have to ask her, she is still alive after all. My post title refers to the post by Dr. Jim West in response to my plea to minimalists. I will get to Grandma in a moment, but first I want to set the record straight. My post was […]
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[This became long. I really hope you will read it all, but if you are short on time, skip to the last two paragraphs. Ta.] Dr. Claude Mariottini has a long post with a non-review of Mario Liverani’s Israel’s History and the History of Israel. (For those not following along, […]
This is really amazing and wonderful news. I will simply post it in its entirety from Stephen Cook’s blog: Virginia Seminary Waives Tuition for All Black Students I am very pleased that VTS has taken a giant step forward in helping to cultivate African-American leadership in the church. We are […]
Charles Halton (among several others) reports on the passing of Prof. Anderson. I thought I would share how I came to know of his work. I was in my first year of teaching and I had assigned a final essay for my Hebrew Bible class. One students paper stood out […]
Airton José da Silva has posted a summary in English of an article that he has just completed (in Portuguese) on the Book of Ruth in its social and anthropological setting. He offers a brief summary in English and the Portuguese introduction. International Biblical Studies Writing Month Chris Brady at Targuman, […]
Any who might have me on Facebook or Twitter will know that I have been reviewing applications for the last week or so. We have over 2400 applications, a new record, but a lot of work. Most of them are read by our faculty readers, God bless ’em. The application, […]
This oped was written to BusinessWeek by our Provost Rodney Erickson and signed by all the Big 10 provosts. It is replying to the earlier article “The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League”. It is a very good piece (the letter, the other is good as well, but problematic, as […]
Christopher Heard’s post reminds me that I need to put up a separate post about: Biblical Studies Writing Month (or so) Finally, in great optimism of getting work done over the break, I declared December through January “International Biblical Studies Writing Month (or so).” The truth is, I haven’t done […]
That is the headline at Inside Higher Ed. What do you all make of this story? (Be sure to read it all.) Calvin has a denominational requirement, the faculty member wanted to be part of a black Baptist church and they said no. Her tenure is being revoked. When a […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has is running an election blog and today’s story deals with the candidates’ stands on science. But of even greater interest to me are the side-bars. A running straw poll for both parties (Obama leads the Dems and McCaine Republicans, see image) and an interactive […]