Be sure to read Danny Zacharias’ excellent summary of the recent debate surrounding Berlinblau’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education critiquing SBL. Danny’s own refections are definitely worth reading. E.g., It seems clear to me that the entire point of the article is to say that the SBL isn’t […]
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This is from Kevin. Thanks for the heads up! What’s Wrong with the SBL? The Chronicle of Higher Education has a provocative piece by Jacques Berlinerblau entitled “What’s Wrong with the Society of Biblical Literature?” As I and many fellow bibliobloggers will be descending on Washington, DC, next week for […]
In comments on Stephen Cook’s post I asserted that scholars outside of the field of biblical literature proper (e.g., English faculty who teach “The Bible as Literature”) often deal with what Stephen referred to as “the white elephant in the room: Scripture by its nature is all about claims to […]
Stephen Cook posted a reply to my earlier post about David and commented that he had not heard a good homily on David in a while. I don’t know if they are good, but I offer two that I delivered several years ago. For those who do not want to […]
I am not sure how I missed this post from last week and most of my audience already knows about Accordance, but if you don’t and you use a Mac (or get a Mac if you want ot use the best Bible software out there) check out Accordance. Their targum, […]
I love David and the narratives surrounding his life and at some point I would like to write about him. In the meantime many great folks have already done so. See Stephen Cook’s recent entry: David: A hermeneutic Entree into Scripture The character of David’s portrait in Bible invites the […]
The latest Biblical Studies Carnival is up: Biblical Studies Carnival XI Michael Pahl is the host and he has done an excellent job, drawing together a range of great posts from a variety of blogs, with succinct and stylish comments. (Via NT Gateway Weblog.)
There have been ongoing discussions about teaching the Bible in a secular context, partly due to the new session at SBL in which I am contributing a paper, but in the biblioblogsphere more due to Kevin Wilson’s discussions on Blue Cord. (Kevin has a whole series of posts, so be […]
In preparing for this paper, I came across this 1998 article by JZ Smith (is he related, son perhaps, of Wilfred Cantwell Smith?) “Teaching the Bible in the Context of General Education” (Teaching Theology and Religion, Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 73-78, Jun 1998). It is a very interesting read, […]
Christopher has a very good (and humorous) breakdown of the problems with the TNIV In the last week and a half I’ve been teaching from the Latter Prophets in class, so here are some prime examples. (1) Jeremiah 7:22-23 In Hebrew: כי לא־דברתי את־אבותיכם ולא צויתים ביום הוציא אותם מארץ […]