Love Sechrest, the newest addition to Fuller’s NT faculty, is keen on the “practice” part of this Exegetical Method and Practice course that I’m taking with her. Sure, we’ll be learning the method in lectures and reading, but the focus of our assignments is on practice. We have an assigned Greek text for every session [...]
Browsing the blog archives for March, 2007
27 Mar 07
27 Mar 07
For my Greek Reading course with David Kiefer, Fuller Seminary’s Registrar, we will (naturally) be diving into Greek for this next quarter. Here are the Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes from the syllabus:
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to (a) identify all the relevant categories (i.e., to parse) all regular forms [...]
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Posted in books, classes, greek
26 Mar 07
Fellow biblioblogger, James Crossley, has had his book, Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26-50 CE), reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature. The reviewer, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, does take a couple of jabs at the book, particularly the overreaching title (and I do wonder whether that was actually Crossley’s choice or [...]
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Posted in book reviews
23 Mar 07
I don’t know when this happened (it seems to have been around 3/18), but apparently I’ve been added to the biblioblogs roster! I was surprised to discover that someone found their path to my blog from the biblioblogs.com list of blogs. Many thanks to Jim West and Brandon Wason for including me in their esteemed [...]
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Posted in biblioblogs
21 Mar 07
It’s often stated that Bart Ehrman lost his faith because of his revelations in scholarship, particularly text critical work. For example, take a look at the quote from Daniel Wallace that I earlier referenced on this blog and to Craig Evans new book Fabricating Jesus (see pp. 25-31). In a recent interview with Biblical Archeology [...]
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Posted in agnosticism, ehrman, faith, inerrancy, theodicy
19 Mar 07
This was the google search that someone typed in to get to my blog. That brought them to my post on “What do Anabaptists say about justification by faith?”
I hope that said googler found the answer to be “yes.”
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Posted in anabaptism, google search
19 Mar 07
In the next six months or so, I will have to create a paper to submit as a sample to doctoral programs. At this point, I am in the planning stages. None of my classes have provided the opportunity for me to create a paper that I feel expresses what most interests me. The topic [...]
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Posted in Jesus, doctoral programs, phd applications, writing sample
17 Mar 07
I’ve just been tipped off by Shawn Anthony of Lo-Fi Tribe about the “Rediscovering Anabaptism” video series that’s displayed online over at the Anabaptist Network website. This is the one about reading the Bible. No doubt Jim West will have a bone to pick with it!
The main scholar in the video is Stuart Murray. If [...]
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Posted in anabaptism, hermeneutics, video
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Elsewhere . . .- Some Thoughts On Being A DSS/Second Temple Scholar agathos
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- Fall 2010 Term at Duke Stephen C. Carlson
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