Motivated by Jim West’s tongue-lashing and near expulsion of Ben Myers from the biblioblogger lunch, I decided to take a look at the latter’s blog, which I have read on occasion, but not for rather some time. After a few minutes’ perusal, I have decided take a moment to publicly sing Ben’s praises. The reason [...]
Bibliobloggers at SBL: The Evidence
Jim West reports that one Christian Brady, exhibiting great kindness towards those of us who were unable to make it to San Diego, has posted pictures and a podcast from the recent biblioblogger lunch at SBL. Not surprisingly, it is the podcast that has caught my attention. Allow me, if you will, to note a [...]
The Welsh Countryside of Southern Indiana
Just because it has been a while since I last posted on the subject of seminaries and their curricular offerings (see here and here), it would be wholly misguided to assume that I have therefore ceased my explorations into that subject. Nothing could be further from the truth! This has been, in fact, a long-standing [...]
Book Notice
I was very pleased to learn that my former teacher Dick Thompson has rather recently published a book entitled Keeping the Church in Its Place: The Church as Narrative Character in Acts (New York: T&T Clark, 2006). Steve Walton of the London School of Theology has written a terrific review of the book, which I [...]
Learning About the Phallogocentric Biases that Mediate Our Identities, and Stuff
Thanks to the goodness that is PaperbackSwap (about which read my previous posts here and here), I was able to obtain a copy of Literary Criticism: An Autopsy by Mark Bauerlein. This book, published a decade ago already, has been enormously satisfying to read. Described by its author as a “handbook of counterdisciplinary usage,” this [...]
New Bibles Are Wuv, Twue Wuv
Kevin Edgecomb reports that he is rather in love with A New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS), which is now available for purchase. Read his post linked above for a mouthwatering review of the physical features of the book, and a keen assessment of the scholarly comprehensiveness of this new translation and its enormous [...]
Flying Scholars, Spaghetti and San Diego
Over the past few days, several bloggers have posted notices of their departure for San Diego to attend the ETS, SBL and AAR annual meetings. To all of them, good riddance! Er, wait. My apologies. I meant to say safe travels. Really.
I had entertained the thought of attending SBL this year, but several things didn’t [...]
Of Failed Plans and Surprising Additions
I had hoped to spend the afternoon of this Thursday in leisurely blogging and enjoying some well-deserved rest, but sadly this was not to be: suffice it to say that only after a defeatist call to a locksmith and the obscene expenditure of $75 was I able to gain access to my inner sanctum, where [...]
Catching Up, Once Again, By Giant Leaps
The demands and burdens of this utterly vexatious thing usually styled “Real Life” have lately prevented me from blogging regularly. I ask your indulgence, my genteel gazelles, if once more I must catch up with you all by means of decidedly broad strokes; manifold circumstances prevent that it be otherwise.
Before all else, I must acknowledge [...]
Two Recent Posts Right Worthy of Note
I. John Hobbins, at the insistence of Doug Chaplin, has posted what he considers to be the 10 paradigmatic questions of the Bible in order to answer a question he himself raised elsewhere, and which he restates thus: “What ten verses of the Bible sum up that book’s message more than the others?” His [...]
Thoughts on "Reformation Day"
Last Wednesday was October 31, and many people noted in various venues that it was the 490th “anniversary” of the Protestant Reformation—actually, of the posting of Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (i.e., the “Ninety-five Theses”) on the doors (i.e., bulletin board) of the Castle Church at Wittenberg [...]
