My final hurrah for David Scholer’s class is a 15-20 page paper outlining my thoughts coming out of the class. I figure it’d be a good thing to do some pieces of it on this blog to get me going. It’s supposed to be a very personal wrestling match with the texts and personal experiences. [...]
Browsing the blog archives for November, 2006
30 Nov 06
30 Nov 06
So I’m in the thick of end-of-the-quarter work and I have one more reflection on SBL in the works, but David Scholer handed out this top ten list in class yesterday and I just have to share it:
Dave’s Top Ten Reasons Why Men Should Not Be Ordained
10. A man’s place [...]
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Posted in feminism, humor, men's roles, quotes, top ten, women's roles
22 Nov 06
When I told them that I am an MDiv student hoping to do a NT PhD, this was the inevitable question that arose from scholars I met at the conference. Of course, there are a bunch of schools that would be wonderful to attend and a plethora of exciting scholars under whom I’d love to [...]
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Posted in SBL, academia, career, doctoral programs
19 Nov 06
I am generally having a good time at SBL thus far. I am certainly not one of those people who has dreams of biblical or religious academia, goes to one conference, and calls it quits because of a horrible time. Well, at least not yet. I still have a few days to go. My personal [...]
18 Nov 06
What a blessed time. I got into DC last night at about 9pm and, since we had similar flight schedules, traveled with Chris Spinks to our hotel. My first steps out into the brisk, cold air were a beautiful welcome back to the East Coast, which feels so much more like home. After checking in, [...]
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Posted in SBL, academia, travel
5 Nov 06
For our “Women, the Bible, and the Church” course, Dr. David Scholer has a fantastic resource in a collection of many of his essays on the issue of women and ministry. If you’re interested in the issue, I’m not sure there is a better book covering the significant biblical texts along with some of the [...]
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Posted in articles, books, classes, hermeneutics, women's roles
2 Nov 06
Since the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is coming up later this month, and it’s my first run-in with the bigwig conference, it may be a good time for me to think about what I am interested in pursuing as a potential scholar. What captures my attention, passions, and interests in [...]
2 Nov 06
During my class with James VanderKam this past Summer, “Introduction to Early Judaism,” I was reading the Rule of the Community (1QS) from the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) and the concept of communal sharing of goods struck me. There seemed to be an interesting parallel with Qumran (if that’s truly where the DSS were written) [...]
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Posted in Acts, community, dead sea scrolls, early church, judaism, quotes
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Elsewhere . . .- Michael Goulder Bibliography Mark Goodacre
- Why the Society of Biblical Literature should change its motto noreply@blogger.com (Alan Lenzi)
- Gobbets Mary Beard
- Deadline alert for SBL Atlanta JohnFH
- Messiah College receives federal recognition for commitment to community service - Patriot-News (author unknown)
- 100,000 Downloads of the Logos Bible Software iPhone App rburns
- Life Before Google James F. McGrath
- A False Prophecy: The Future of the Internet noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Claude Mariottini)
- My New Association with Asbury Theological Seminary Nijay Gupta
- SBL Midwest Night One - Texts and Jewish Identity J. Brian Tucker
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