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23 Feb 10

Need a Good Title for a SBL Session

As a member of the Student Advisory Group, I am currently putting together a panel discussion for this fall’s annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature. The panel is aimed at both master’s and doctoral students who are a bit desperate and frustrated to find their own niche in biblical studies. The panel will [...]

10 Comments Posted in SBL, biblical studies, career by Patrick George McCullough
16 Sep 09

Interview: Mike Cosby on the Bible, Publishing, and Pedagogy

Michael R. Cosby serves as Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Messiah College. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, with a dissertation on the rhetorical structure of Hebrews 11. In 1999, Mike published Portraits of Jesus: An Inductive Approach to the Gospels (Westminster John Knox). This year, he is publishing two works [...]

1 Comment Posted in Michael R. Cosby, Uncategorized, biblical studies, interviews, messiah college, pedagogy, publishing by Patrick George McCullough
8 Sep 09

Is Mike Patronizing Women in a Tokenistic Sort of Way?

Some believe that Mike’s meme is patronizing or amounts to tokenism. How dare he highlight women who are doing good scholarship! The audacity! Seriously, I do understand the concern, but I think it is only tokenism if it is a token and nothing else. That is, if one has  no interest in taking on the [...]

8 Comments Posted in biblical studies, biblioblogging, gender by Patrick George McCullough
4 Sep 09

Mike's Meme: 5 Most Influential Female Biblical Scholars

Picking up on the gender, gender, gender theme of the week, Mike has initiated a helpful new meme. As I was talking with a friend about the issue of female bibliobloggers, we wondered how the percentage of female bibliobloggers differed from the percentage of female biblical scholars. We tried to name as many female biblical [...]

2 Comments Posted in biblical studies, books, gender, memes, scholarship by Patrick George McCullough
2 Sep 09

Non-SBL Biblical Studies Conferences in the US?

Someone recently mentioned the upcoming Hebrew Bible conference at Notre Dame (”My Ways Are Not Your Ways“), which I hadn’t heard of before. This makes me wonder: what else am I missing? I hear of some cool conferences in the UK, but what biblical studies conferences (other than the obvious national and regional SBL meetings) [...]

6 Comments Posted in biblical studies, calls for papers, conferences by Patrick George McCullough
1 Sep 09

Let's Rehash: Rethinking a Twitter Hashtag for Biblical Studies

Okay, given my previous post about female bibliobloggers, my conscience as a feminist, and some negative comments I’ve gotten about #bibstuds as a potential Twitter hashtag, maybe we should reconsider. One person thought it sounded “sexist,” another “misogynistic,” and another explained with less charged language, “[I]t had occurred to me when I saw your previous [...]

5 Comments Posted in Hashtags, Twitter, biblical studies by Patrick George McCullough
31 Aug 09

Bibstuds: A Twitter Hashtag for Biblical Studies

Yesterday I asked whether there were any good Twitter hashtags for biblical studies. The question arose from setting my wife up with some things on Twitter. She is interested in breastfeeding and there are quite a few actively used hashtags on her topics of interest. What about us? Shouldn’t there be an easy way to [...]

4 Comments Posted in Bibstuds, Hashtags, Jim West, Tweets, Twitter, biblical studies by Patrick George McCullough
17 Aug 09

Review: Interpreting Biblical Literature by Michael R. Cosby (Part 1)

Interpreting Biblical Literature: An Introduction to Biblical Studies
Author: Michael R. Cosby
Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Stony Run Publishing
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780982477403
Buy: See Stony Run Publishing Website for ordering information.
I would like to send my thanks to Mike Cosby and Stony Run Publishing for sending a copy of his book, hot off the presses.
Starting Off. In my experience, most [...]

2 Comments Posted in Michael Cosby, biblical studies, reviews, textbooks by Patrick George McCullough
20 Jul 09

Review: HarperCollins Study Bible (Part 2)

HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised and Updated – Student Edition
Editors: Harold W. Attridge (General Editor, Revised); Wayne A. Meeks (General Editor, Original)
Hardcover: 2128 pages
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2006
ISBN:9780060786830
Buy: HarperCollins; Amazon
Positives

Excellent running commentary by world-class biblical scholars.
More notes than other study Bibles based on critical research.
The lack of a solidified confessional stance allows for less apologetically motivated notes [...]

3 Comments Posted in Uncategorized, bible, biblical studies, book reviews, study bibles by Patrick George McCullough
12 Jul 09

Review: The HarperCollins Study Bible (Part 1: Contributors)

HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised and Updated – Student Edition
Editors: Harold W. Attridge (General Editor, Revised); Wayne A. Meeks (General Editor, Original)
Hardcover: 2128 pages
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2006
ISBN:9780060786830
Buy: HarperCollins; Amazon
Many thanks to Kayleigh at Harper Academic for forwarding this review copy! Reviewing the premier study Bible on the market is a bit of a daunting task. It [...]

2 Comments Posted in bible, biblical studies, book reviews, study bibles by Patrick George McCullough

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