Things have been sparse of late. The most recent problem was that I was apparently hacked and had some trouble getting my blog back in gear. But even without that, I have been terribly busy and just didn’t have time to blog. It seems that the winter quarter is busier than the others. In addition to teaching, doing coursework and parenting, all the deadlines for one thing or another are packed in during the winter quarter.

I am pleased to announce that this quarter marks the end of my required coursework. I have had flexibility in my program to choose whatever courses fit my research areas, but I have had to take a certain number of seminars and reading courses, etc. After this quarter, it’s all finished. Between my seminary degree and my first two years at UCLA, I have been taking full-time graduate-level courses for five years straight. I’m ready to move on!

This quarter I am taking a Hebrew seminar on Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic history with Bill Schniedewind as well as reading through Roman historians as an independent reading course with Ron Mellor. It’s a good way to end this streak of courses. Now that I have go my blog back up and running, I will post some thoughts inspired by these endeavors.

Thanks to everyone who has honored me by subscribing to my humble blog and reading it on a regular basis, participating in various conversations with me. I hope that I can provide you with more food for thought in the coming days and weeks than in the past couple months.