[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, […]
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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 […]
Jim West tackles King David’s irascible personality in his post today, “Shimei, David, And A Change of Heart.” Jim outlines the history and how David swore he would not take Shimei’s life, after he cursed the king fleeing his own son but on his death bed David charges Solomon, “you […]
Special thanks to Charles Halton for putting this up! Please click through to give him the traffic he deserves and download the articles. Understanding the History of Ancient Israel The Proceedings of the British Academy volume 143 is online and articles are free to download. (Via Awilum.com.)
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 […]
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 […]
UPDATE: Jim West says that I should have included a “we don’t know” option for the poll, but since when do scholars admit to not even having a guess an educated opinion about something? So make your most thoroughly researched and thoughtful opinion count and vote now! Since I can now do […]
This should evoke a bit of conversation in the blogosphere, not to mention the rest of the media. (I think I will begin calling them the Medes and then perhaps the internet community could become the Persians. What do you think?) University to Teach ‘Intelligent Design’ as Myth | LiveScience […]
So this is the sermon. I also have an audio of it, which is much more expansive, but I have not pulled it off the recorder yet. Please feel free to offer comments! Patronal Festival for St. Andrew’s, State College Genesis 28: 10-17 Romans 10: 8b-18 Matthew 4: 18-22 Jacob […]
I am trying to prepare my sermon for tomorrow, with our daughter and her friend watching Ratatouille, that excellent movie from Pixar that was just released on DVD. I would much rather be watching that or, really, in bed. Travel is tuckering me out. So of course I am blogging […]