April DeConick raises the perennial isssue of the dearth of female bloggers in biblical studies. Deirdre Good follows up. Some time ago (June 2007 – while I was still blogging at Blogger), I raised the issue and got some discussion going. On that old post (now transferred to my new web location), I also summarized [...]
Browsing the archives for the academia category
1 Sep 09
19 Aug 09
SBL Career Center has been posting positions for 2010 and I thought I’d take a peek at the spots that are out there. I’m not applying for these spots as I’m not on the market yet, but it’s never too early to investigate the lay of the land. I noticed a common requirement. Historical-critical scholars [...]
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Posted in academia, career, ideological criticism, jobs, new testament
24 May 09
Mike Bird notes his co-authored (with Craig Keener) piece in the SBL forum, “Jack of All Trades and Master of None: The Case for ‘Generalist’ Scholars in Biblical Scholarship.” While we need both specialists and generalists in academia, this article is an apology for a generalist approach–as the field of biblical studies has descended ever [...]
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Posted in academia, biblical studies, pedagogy, scholarship
17 Apr 09
Nick asked an interesting question on his blog, a question that I often consider. Is there any person (”scholar, theologian, pastor, or just regular person in your life”) with whom you agree almost all the time? How about the reverse? A while back, I was answering one of my father-in-law’s theological or biblical questions. We [...]
13 Apr 09
That is the topic of a deeply fascinating piece on the Chronicle Career website. Keith D. Miller, a professor of English at Arizona State University tackles both the pragmatic and philosophical problems related to mandated unpaid furloughs. Here is his opening set of questions:
I am taking 12 days of furlough — mandated, unpaid leave — [...]
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Posted in academia, budgets, furloughs
2 Feb 09
When my wife and I sat down in the middle of the night with a home pregnancy test in bewildered awe of the coming tectonic shift in our lives, I didn’t really consider the situation that I would be in when our little baby entered the world. From our calculations, it looked like he would [...]
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Posted in acadadia, academia, career, parenthood
12 Oct 08
I was flabbergasted to read John Stackhouse’s (theology prof at Regent College in Vancouver) recent blog post about applying to PhD programs. First, he warned applicants against asking to defer their acceptance (”It’s not like undergraduate acceptance”). Clearly, that is sage advice. I’m amazed that people even consider doing that. But the second bit in [...]
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Posted in PhD, academia, applications, doctoral applications, doctoral programs
19 Sep 08
It hasn’t quite become official–I have to pass my classes after all –but I have handed in my last assignment for Fuller Theological Seminary. I have now finished all the work necessary to earn my Master of Divinity. I am so excited to start bossing around divine beings. I believe my first command [...]
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Posted in academia, career, seminary
10 Sep 08
Many may know about the discussion raised by Hector Avalos about the “end of biblical studies.” For those who don’t, I will catch you up a little bit. The issue is about whether we should teach biblical studies as an academic discipline and, if so, how we should go about it. The issue obviously hits [...]
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Posted in American culture, Avalos, DeConick, Koester, academia, bible, biblical studies, career, hermeneutics
6 Sep 08
There was a long stretch where Logos Bible Software was coming out with some powerhouse academic resources in their prepublication program. Bunches of stuff on Josephus, Philo, the Pseudepigrapha, Ancient Near Eastern books, great original language items. One of the most amazing offerings of this period was Hermeneia. More recently, they have offered the Anchor [...]
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Posted in academia, bible, bible software, bible study, libronix, logos bible software, study bibles
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Elsewhere . . .- Some Thoughts On Being A DSS/Second Temple Scholar agathos
- Mellon Seminar Reflection 1: What are T/traditions? April DeConick
- Quote of the Day (Bob Cargill) James F. McGrath
- Fall 2010 Term at Duke Stephen C. Carlson
- NT Blog Seven Years Old Today! Mark Goodacre
- Teaching the Bible e-pub latest Mark Goodacre
- Biblical Studies Carnival, and Other Blog News Mark Goodacre
- First blind PhD graduate in biblical languages? paleojudaica@talktalk.net (Jim Davila)
- CONF: Second Qumran Institute Symposium rogueclassicist
- Received: Jefford’s Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction (author unknown)
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