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Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot (Free subscription) | yesterday
The month is almost over, so make sure to nominate some posts for Biblical Studies Carnival XLVIII, which will be hosted by Doug Chaplin over at his blog, clayboy. The Carnival will highlight posts relating to academic biblical studies for the month of November and should be posted in the first week of December 2009. As [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | yesterday
All Things Considered has a must listen to story today (which just finished on the air and so there is as yet no audio link). It has to do with the apparent control of the publication of dissenting articles in scientific journals and the silencing of dissenting voices. E-mails stolen from a climate research center in [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | yesterday
It seems that Americans and Brits aren’t alone in the whole quest for academic freedom, or the only ones who strive to make the lie of such freedom a thing of the past. The Jerusalem Post has an op-ed worth looking at on the subject, from the point of view of a person very disinclined [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | yesterday
A brand new addition to the field of Exodus studies has appeared in Thomas Dozeman’s Exodus. In this volume Thomas Dozeman presents a fresh translation of the Hebrew text of Exodus along with a careful interpretation of its central themes, literary structure, and history of composition. He explores two related themes in the formation of the [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every now and then it seems as though books and book notices all come at once. For instance, while wandering around the book hall at SBL I happened across someone who mentioned a forthcoming volume by the always delightful John Day, but without specifics beyond the concept. So I asked John and he replied, in part, [...]
The Busybody (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like The Biblioblog Top-50 might reinstate the practice of labeling us by our liberal/conservative leanings. I can't say I'm upset by this idea in the way Jason Staples is, and wonder if strenuous objections owe to a certain insecurity about the way one is perceived. We shouldn't take this stuff too seriously. I'm amazed at how I've been pegged over the past five years: flaming liberal, moderate...
Hypotyposeis (Free subscription) | yesterday
The The Biblioblog Top 50 is considering to reinstate the previously abortive attempt of Categorizing all Biblioblogs: Conservative to Liberal . I strongly disagree with this proposal. The categorization as a whole is reductionistic and misleading. Many biblioblogs do not fit nicely in such a totalizing scheme (e.g. where does Jim West fall'), and it unwarrantedly privileges a particular perspective...
Hypotyposeis (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another year, another SBL conference. Here are some of my initial impressions. The flight to New Orleans on Friday went as scheduled. I traveled with Mark Goodacre , who was also coming from Raleigh for SBL. While waiting for our connecting flight in Atlanta, we ran into James McGrath . The highlight of Saturday morning for me was the E-lister's get together at the Eisenbrauns booth. We’ve been...
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
In Bible and Interpretation. It’s a brief summary of his fairly recent Altes Testament und christliche Kirche: Versuch der Aufklärung. It’s vintage Gerd, which means that those who like his stuff will probably like it and those who don’t, won’t. Posted in biblical studies
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Paul Bowler, the person, it seems, in the business office responsible for urging the sacking of Pietersen and others, will ‘not be carrying out his duties till further notice’. Perhaps – then – I was wrong to be pessimistic. More as more happens. Let’s just all hope that the University has come to its [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
There was much time at the New Orleans airport to ponder the meaning of conferences like SBL. So, since I have time- here are a few utterly random thoughts. 1- The highlight of the meeting was, for me, the get together at Cafe Giovanni. Spending time with Mogens Muller and the others who were there was [...]
Bible/History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Derek Leman just blogged about the SBL's section on Historical Criticism. This is the one Mike & Rob mentioned the other night, as I said. Here's the most relevant part of Derek's review. Francis Watson of Durham University gave a provocative lecture. He said we should abandon the term historical criticism altogether for the following reasons: (1) Biblical scholars are not historians and should...
Bible/History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Nearing the end of the Biblical Studies ScholarPalooza in NOLA. The Bibliobloggers' Dinner was tonight and about 30 or 40 of us wound up getting there, I'd guess. Every moment was absolutely delightful. The other best moment of the day was around lunch when my old friend, neighbor and house church compadre Neil Carter drove in for the rest of the conference. New friends and old. Silver and Gold. Both...
Clayboy (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
A reminder to you to send me submissions for the Biblical Studies Carnival that will appear on 1st December. A second reminder of the main point: The goal of the Biblical Studies Carnival is to showcase the best of weblog posts in the area of academic biblical studies. By “academic biblical studies” we mean: Academic: Posts must represent [...]
Mystical Politics (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I'm attending the SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) Annual Meeting right now, which is being held in New Orleans. I arrived in New Orleans very late Thursday night (my plane from Newark was delayed because of all the air traffic and weather problems) and then got up bright and early on Friday morning to go to the New Testament Mysticism Project session. This is the first time I've managed to get...
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