Steve, the writer of the blog Undeception, recently wrote a post about inerrancy, entitled “The Place of Fear in our Bibliology.” The gem that stood out to me in this piece, though, could be applied to many issues. After lamenting how many times he has heard the “slippery slope” argument as an excuse to not [...]
Is the measure of a good book in its story or its telling? Truly great books will have both, but sometimes one is enough. I’m not sure if The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, is truly well written (although, it is definitely clever). I’ve heard opinions (from people I respect) on both sides of the [...]
Good review by Joseph Kelly of Mark Smith‘s recent book, The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1, by Mark Smith. I’ve been reading this, but have not yet had the time to write about it here. Hopefully Joseph’s review will convince you the book is worth your time. It has been worth my time (which these [...]
If you like to learn, check out this list of 10 Power Tools for Lifelong learners. For you iPhone users, be sure to check out #10, which points you to an iPhone app called Open Culture that connects you to many of the free resources! HT: Randall Short (@shortNtweet), via Twitter (he also has a [...]
Pete Enns, at the BioLogos Science and the Sacred blog asks readers today to “read the opening chapters of Genesis … from a different angle” because “[if] we want a clue as to how to read the opening chapters of the Christian Bible, we should go to the closing chapters.” Read the post here.
BioLogos announced today that Pete Enns will be joining their team as a senior fellow of biblical studies. Enns has been guest-writing on their Science and the Sacred blog and participated in the recent workshop noted here. The full announcement (and links to team member biographies) is found here.
Clayboy (Doug Chaplin) does a terrific job this month with the Biblical Studies Carnival XLVIII. I’m happy to see such a representation from the Hebrew Bible this month. He also successfully sifted out all of Jim West‘s photo journals of the SBL meeting and listed the best reports of sessions at that meeting in New [...]
Chris Heard has put together two screencasts demonstrating how to setup and use your Mac to type in Hebrew. You might want to be sure you have the unicode SBL Hebrew font installed before you watch the videos. The font is available free for download here. Be sure to also download the keyboard driver and [...]
Pete Enns is the Friday “guest voice” again at Science and the Sacred (the
Tim Bulkeley, Tyndale Carey Graduate School, was one of the presenters in the SBL session on Distance Education. His comments about Degrees of Presence are applicable to anyone teaching a distance course. He’s placed on his blog his notes in a few posts, which I’ve linked to below. I’ve also placed the links on my [...]
Below are links to material from my SBL session entitled, “Examining our Exams: What to include, exclude, and revisit for Biblical Language Exams.” These links have been added to my SBL 2009 Pedagogy page (link in toolbar above). A summary of my presentation, as well as links from other presenters will be added soon. Ideas [...]
Michael Fox discussed the second volume of his commentary on Proverbs with a group of bibliobloggers gathered at a dinner hosted by John Hobbins at the Deutsches Haus in New Orleans. Great food, fellowship, fun and discussion. The evening benefited Jericho Road, a charity rebuilding community after Katrina. I’ll post more about this fine evening [...]
Today I was one of the presenters in the following session: 22-201 Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies 11/22/2009 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Studio 9 – MR Theme: Distance Learning: How to teach traditional topics in a non-traditional format I’ve posted links to some of the resources mentioned in my portion of session below. [...]
I could not be at the SBL Bible Software Shootout session between Logos, SESB, BibleWorks, Accordance and Olive Tree but I did follow some of the SBLtweets. So I’m putting a roundup of the tweets from that session here. If you were there and have anything to add, please leave a comment, thanks! UPDATE (for [...]
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