I hope I am not breaking any rules by releasing this information now, but… Here is the lineup for the Aramaic Studies session for this year’s SBL conference in San Diego. It will be on Monday afternoon, not in the heart of the conference but not on the Sabbath or […]
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Magazine & journal reader has an interesting post/tease about an article by Rachel McCleary in The Review of Faith & International Affairs. She suggests that the “Secularization Theory” that for over a century has argued that an increase in economic development leads to a decrease […]
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 […]
My brother has finally convinced me to sign up for Skype. For those who do not know what this is in brief it allows you to use your computer, connected to a high speed network, to call other computers anywhere in the world for free and other (regular) phones for […]
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 […]
Ted Koppel moderating with Simcha Jacobovici, James Tabor, William Dever, and Jonathon Reed. Koppel begins by asking why they only choose the Mariamne and Jesus ossuaries for the DNA evidence. SJ’s reply is that we just didn’t push the science that far (see also NYTimes in Feb. 27, 2007) and […]
{I did not mean to do a live blog myself, but after writing many paragraphs and it is 10:40 pm I guess I have indeed made my own. Mark’s is still better so be sure to go to his site. } I missed the first few minutes (any other parents […]
Thank you Tyler for bringing this to light! This is abfab! Fighting Shevas OK, this is too funny. This Chris fellow made an animation illustrating a sheva fight (In Biblical Hebrew, when two shevas are found at the beginning of a word, the first sheva becomes a hireq). I will […]
Dr. Jim West has the latest BS Biblical Studies Carnival. 🙂 For those new to this, it is a monthly roundup of all the biblioblogging of recent weeks. Jim’s is incredibly thorough and well annotated. Thanks for the good work Jim and for the mention! (Via Dr Jim West.)
I am fortunate that although I have less time for research due to my administrative duties I do have a research budget. Thus…books! (The average 45% SBL conference discount helped.) A quick list: Conversations with Scripture: The Law, by (our own bibliobloger!) Kevin Wilson. This series of the Anglican Association […]