SBL has published the sessions for the upcoming conference in Atlanta. The link is here and I will be presenting in the following three sessions (Sorry, all the links take you back to the SBL site. I will clean that up later.): Session Id TBD Aramaic Studies 11/21/2010 1:00 PM […]
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I have finalized our session for Aramaic Studies, which you can see below. I will actually be giving two papers relating to biblioblogging. (I think I might go back to Biblicablogs. I like that term myself. Anyone else have views on that?) The first will be part of the Blogger […]
Below is the text of the paper I presented this past week at the Mid-Atlantic Region Society of Biblical Literature and, if WordPress plays nicely, the audio of the presentation. This paper is part of my larger work on Targum Ruth. This summer I will be presenting a paper at […]
This morning marks the beginning of the Mid-Atlantic Regional SBL (and AAR) meeting. There are some interesting papers but this morning I need to try and finish my paper for tomorrow. I thought I would share the general premise here. Feel free to critique it and if I have the […]
If you have been procrastinating now is the time to get your paper proposals in! Don’t forget Aramaic Studies and Blogging and Online Publication Sections.
We have listened and broadened the scope of the new “bibliobloggers” SBL section. SBL Blogger and Online Publication section Originally organized under the aegis of the ‘biblioblogging’ community, this unit has been renamed. ‘Biblioblogging’ refers to a diverse community of nearly every point of view that communicates new ideas or […]
I received the following email from Ziony Zevit. Dear Colleagues I write to draw your attention to the two NAPH sessions at the forthcoming SBL meetings that will deal with Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew. The catalyst for this year’s sessions, and the two (or three) planned for 2010, is the […]
I write this with the sense that I am in some way cheating, but if David Pogue can write an entire book via Twitter (in which one of my tweets is quoted) then perhaps I can call upon the greater knowledge and wisdom of the biblioblogging world to aid me […]
As many of you all know Jim West has taken the lead to forge an “affiliation” with SBL and is now moving forward with forming a steering committee. Some have responded to these developments with some concern and consternation. Chris Heard is the most outspoken that I have come across […]
Jeremy Shipper asked if we would pass this call along and I am more than happy to do so! (And if I can get my act together I will even submit a paper. I love my administrative job but it makes research a challenge.) Jeremy tells us that, “Highlights for […]