My friend Matt, who happens to be a PhD student in New Testament studies at Fuller Seminary, and has been a TA for two of my classes now, has a strong opinion about the word “just.” He handed out a list of “Things to Avoid” to the class and this was at the top of [...]
Browsing the blog archives for April, 2007
10 Apr 07
10 Apr 07
I would like to highly commend to you two recent blog postings by Mark Goodacre on the New Testament Gateway blog: Should Blogs Count for Tenure? and Blogging and Tenure 2. Dr. Goodacre, as usual, pushes academia forward in trying to think about the potential for new technologies, rather than getting hung up on the [...]
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Posted in academia, blogging, career
10 Apr 07
For all my Brethren in Christ readers:
POSITION DESCRIPTIONCommunications Editor/Writer
Position Summary: The Communications Editor/Writer is responsible to the Director of Congregational Relations to produce and publish Seek magazine and the companion online publication, Seeking more, provide editorial support for the denomination website and print publications as requested, and assist in producing presentation multimedia resources for General [...]
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Posted in brethren in christ, jobs
9 Apr 07
In Greek Reading tonight, my instructor said something that made me chuckle:
Omega is the ‘Jaws’ of Greek vowels.
~David Kiefer, Fuller Registrar and Greek instructor
Now, ponder that one for a minute. I am a “visual” person and I like to take imagery seriously. Can’t you just see the omegas nearly jumping off the page with violent, [...]
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Posted in greek, quotes
5 Apr 07
I got my review copy of Hauerwas’ commentary on Matthew yesterday. Thanks, Brazos! I am thoroughly appreciative and equally excited to examine this creative exploration of Matthew. Just flipping through it, I can tell that this totally redefines the term “commentary.” In his Introduction, Hauerwas talks about how he taught classes on Matthew and had [...]
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Posted in book reviews, books, hauerwas, matthew
4 Apr 07
Lesson: Don’t judge an entire academic institution based on the actions of one of its alumni. At the same time, don’t pass immediate judgment on an alumna because of your assumptions about Christian colleges.
Let me be clear from the start, in no way do I want to support the actions of the Attorney General and [...]
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Posted in messiah college, news
3 Apr 07
My friend Anthony, who is currently a Peace Corps worker in Mongolia, recently told me that he reads my blog. I was so touched by his words, I asked if he would mind if I shared his comments on here, to which he replied: “you’re welcome to use or misuse my comments in any way [...]
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Posted in blogging
3 Apr 07
James Tabor, author of The Jesus Dynasty and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-Charlotte, is the featured biblioblogger of the month, deservedly so. He had a good interview with Brandon Wason. Check it out.
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Posted in biblioblogs
2 Apr 07
Hold the phone. I may just have to redirect the concentration of my own pursuit of biblical studies. I have just become aware of a subfield that had gone under my own “radar screen,” as it were. Josh McManaway has pointed out the book The Bible and Flying Saucers by Barry Downing. I looked this [...]
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Posted in UFOs, books
2 Apr 07
I’m reading through David Alan Black’s New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide for my Exegetical Methods class. It’s a handy little book that just goes through the basics of the field in a quite accessible way. To my surprise, when I joked to my wife that since I was going to go do the [...]
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Posted in books, textual criticism, vocation
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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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