File under: “Better late than never.” Welcome to the Silver Anniversary of the BSC! I am a day late and a dollar short (and a modest listing from a lot of great blogs this month) but I hope this will help slake your thirst for biblical studies related information. Here […]
Academics
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The Call for Papers is now open and updated for the Aramaic Studies section of the 2008 SBL conference. Aramaic Studies The Aramaic studies section is intended to provide a forum for scholars interested in various aspects of Aramaic language and its literature. Previous paper topics have included aspects of […]
(and a bit of December too.) Two days ago I posted about an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education concerning November being “International Academic Writing Month.” Today, by the power vested in me by the Great Meturgeman (and encouraged by Tim Bulkeley) I declare January (and a bit of […]
I was unaware of this challenge and perhaps I should take it up for December. It is a busy month for most of us in the Biblioblogging world, but what to you all think? (The reality is that I haven’t even gotten Tyler the links I promised for the Biblical […]
Tyler Williams just sent an email calling for urgent help with this month’s Biblical Studies Carnival. It seems that the person assigned is unable to do it and Tyler needs articles submitted. Since I will be doing one soon (January!) I am more than sympathetic and will send out my […]
The AAR has released its survey results dealing with the upcoming split from SBL for their annual convention. Of interest to me was that only 19.97% said they were SBL members and only 32% were past SBL members. I would have thought it would be higher. 60.13% said that book […]
When Night Falls at School, Should Darwin Go Home? The return of an adult-education class in the Northport school district teaching creationism may provoke litigation. (Via NYT > Education.)
It is Tuesday and I am sitting in the san Diego airport (which has free WiFi, good on ya!) having a bit of lunch before I depart. It was a good conference this year and although I had hoped to blog in/during sessions, I am not going to beat myself […]