I neglected to link to John Hobbins’ Biblical Studies Carnival XXIII. John took a slightly different approach this time. It looks good to me! The format of this carnival is simple. I link to representative posts from a wide selection of blogs. The purpose: to introduce a bunch of bloggers […]
Bible
221 posts
Tonight I was wrestling again with how to best present the material in my next book. This book on Targum Ruth will be similar to my earlier work on Targum Lamentations. My doctoral thesis was a verse-by-verse commentary and the book was an analysis of the work as a whole, […]
I received an email today from our Newsletter website (http://targum.info) asking about general bibliography on the targumim. It will be some time until we can get the biblio up and running on the NTCS site, but in the meantime my old classmate Scott Noegel has had some undergrads working hard […]
Not that I find his work or lectures boring, quite the opposite. But at Columbia a student recently chastised her peers. The lecture, “Dethroning the Son of Man: Daniel and the Antiquity of Christianity,” was mandatory for Columbia College members but the early hours seemed to get to them. Take […]
From a Canadian News Report. The title and a subsequent line in the article presumably (?) meant that it was the first such conference in Canada. (Although I recall a very nice SBL in Toronto not so long ago that featured several, if not all, of the scholars at this […]
A while back I mentioned a new Bible-comic project called “Parable.” They have just announced that a publisher has been found! (No doubt hiding in the bushes quietly, trying to avoid detection, just like its eponym.) More information: We have a publisher! I’m excited to announce that Parable will be […]
It is up and wow is it thorough! So go and get caught up on a month’s worth of biblioblogging! Biblical Studies Carnival XXII Via SansBlogue.
This year’s SBL Schedule of session is now up! S19-54 Aramaic Studies 11/19/2007 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Anaheim – MM Michael Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem From Joseph to Daniel to Antiochus: The Literary Development of Daniel 2 (20 min) Discussion (10 min) Robert R. Phenix, Jr., Saint […]
I am going to try and make this a quick post, but there are several cool things that this artist has led me to… So first of all Mike Maihack is the artist of Cow & Buffalo a very groovy comic. Well worth bookmarking for a regular read. C&B is, […]