Douglas Mangum of Biblia Hebraica has a nice listing of Bibliobloggers presenting at SBL. It is quite a list! We were working a Biblioblogger get together but so far we have not had much luck. I will keep you posted! In the meantime, do check out the growing list of […]
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Who made these up? Why is it that biblical book abbreviations do not have periods and are not italicized but rabbinic works are? E.g., “We find in Exod 3:15 that… whereas in Exod. Rab. we find….” My current frustration (the hobgoblin of this little mind) is what to do with […]
Jeremy Shipper just sent me the call for the 2009 MAR regional SBL. It is my pleasure to repost it here. You can also go to the official MAR-SBL site. (Hmm. Apparently we in PA are actually part of the Eastern Great Lake Region. I am enough of a Penn […]
I was going to title this post “how to blog a conference,” but then I realized that what Tyler Williams is asking, on behalf of Leonard Greenspoon and SBL, is really more a question of how the host institution should handle blogging. I will comment on why I value bloggers […]
I received this from SBL: Greetings: We wanted to share some important news and reminders with you regarding the 2008 SBL Meetings! Annual Meeting Call for Papers: There are new program units listed on the Call for Papers http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPapers.aspx?MeetingId=12 for the SBL Annual Meeting in Boston. Don’t forget, the Call […]
Charles Halton (among several others) reports on the passing of Prof. Anderson. I thought I would share how I came to know of his work. I was in my first year of teaching and I had assigned a final essay for my Hebrew Bible class. One students paper stood out […]
The British accent makes anything seem intelligent. A Tilling Wildlife Documentary on “The West” During our stay in San Diego for the SBL congress, I shared a room with one of nature’s rarest and most undomesticated creatures, The West. Of course, this was a chance to learn something about this […]
The Call for Papers is now open and updated for the Aramaic Studies section of the 2008 SBL conference. Aramaic Studies The Aramaic studies section is intended to provide a forum for scholars interested in various aspects of Aramaic language and its literature. Previous paper topics have included aspects of […]
The AAR has released its survey results dealing with the upcoming split from SBL for their annual convention. Of interest to me was that only 19.97% said they were SBL members and only 32% were past SBL members. I would have thought it would be higher. 60.13% said that book […]