Over at Novum Testamentum Blog Brandon has done an outstanding job collating the Biblioblogging world’s latest thoughts and comments. And he even likes the name “Targuman!” Thanks Brandon. Novum Testamentum Blog A Weblog Dedicated to the New Testament and Cognate Fields 04.01.07 Biblical Studies Carnival XVI Posted in weblogs at […]
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Heart of the City, by Mark Tatulli. A great a creative srip. Passages like Isa. 2 and the knowledge of humanity’s ability to hate itself make it clear to me that such prophetic utterances, in oder to be fulfilled, truly require the existence of a loving redeeming God.
What follows is a subsequent chapter of the work-in-progress I shared last week, Characters of God. (You can read the premise of the work and the first chapter here.) These chapters originated as meditations for a men’s and later a women’s silent retreat. The meditations originally focused upon male or […]
It is nearly 1 am and I am trying to write up some responses for a video interview. *ugh* But I am keeping up the juices with some good ol’ King’s X! Man, I have not listened to this in a LONG time. For those not in the know, this […]
Today’s Gospel reading (in the Book of Common Prayer was from Luke 13.1-9. The final portion reads: Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, ‘See […]
I have been debating about sharing work in progress on the blog. A group of us discussed it at this year’s SBL (podcast here) and most seemed to feel that publishers wouldn’t mind at that it would be a good way to get feedback from others in the field. So […]
A student of mine just sent me this link: Genesis: Traditional with Rashi and Rashbam. David Blumenthal of Emory University (and overall GREAT guy!) has put together a nice web page with three frames of Gen. 1-2.4. It includes an English rendering of the biblical passage and then below it […]
I wrote this over three years ago now but I think it is still relevant. Please bear in mind that this was written for a very general audience (Christianity Today) so some of my generalizations are, well, pretty general. Oh, and the title is not mine. What Do the Stones […]
Two weeks ago a very kind review of my book came out in RBL and I commented on it at the time. I also pointed out another review that I mentioned here. Earlier last year another review was printed in the Journal for the Study of Judaism, XXXVII, 1 by […]
Excellent article. Be sure to read it all. On Slippery Slopes, the Blogosphere, and (oh, yes) Women – Books & Culture “Slippery slope” is actually the name of a logical fallacy, described by Aristotle, in which a series of events is traced back to an earlier event without any proven […]