I am joining my fellow SBL members is passing on this information from the Society of Biblical Literature which was emailed to us. The SBL has received an NEH planning grant to develop a website, “The World of the Bible: exploring people, places, and passages.” The site is intended for general audiences and will share [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve updated my SBL 2009 Pedagogy page with the following links from Taylor Halverson: Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University Effective Uses of Discussion Forums for Biblical Studies Courses at a Distance (20 min) Discussion Board Rubric (PDF) Distance Education and the Bible Presentation Outline (Word doc) Effective Uses of Discussion Forums for Biblical Studies (PowerPoint)
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. [...]
you have someone playing piano at breakfast in a street café. Great little place found in Uptown New Orleans: Oak St. Café.
Got some time and want some terrific local food (and plenty of drink)? Head to Uptown and check out the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival today. We observed some of the set up (and the aromas of the food being prepared) while out and about for breakfast. Looks like some GREAT music will be here [...]
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 [...]
We survived more than Ugaritic together!
The Exhibit Hall is open. Two adjoining halls of books.
Daytime street musicians in French Quarter.
The Institute for Biblical Research meeting on Friday night featured Tremper Longman speaking on “Of the Making of Commentaries There Is No End: The Past, Present, and Future of a Genre.” Of course, Tremper knows firsthand about commentaries since he has been an editor and a contributor to many. “Why write new commentaries?” Tremper outlined [...]
We asked someone on the street where to go for a good (and reasonable) lunch. He directed us to the Central Grocery, which is the home of the muffuletta (I had never heard of this before today). I never would have walked into this place, it is so small and “hole-in-the-wall-ish.” But, wow. What a [...]
Free ferry ride to Algiers Point. Nice views of downtown early in the morning. I’m staying in the Sheraton. Book exhibit (best place to be at SBL) is in the Marriott across the street.
