Summary: Seminary students arrive with a wide range of preparedness to do “active reading” (a wider range than in many Masters programs, I think). What kinds of activities can model and enhance active reading, in a non-remedial way that’s good for the largest number of students?
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Summary: Bruce Waltke made to resign from faculty position for acknowledging fact of evolution. President of seminary celebrates diversity of acceptable views overstepped by Waltke.
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Summary: God doesn’t punish Bible woo directly, but apparently finds ways to keep up the spirits of the debunkers.
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Summary: an instructive kerfluffle about sectarian claims in the books and book reviews of academic biblical studies.
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Summary: McGrath writes on two similarly unreasoned positions: mythicism and creationism.
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Summary: Students whose textbook cites primary literature (like the Bible) should keep that primary literature open before them while reading the textbook.
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Summary: Mammoth teeth and the unpredictable returns on an investment in “over-education.”
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Religious claims can be divided into literal speech (which must submit to testing and measurement) and figurative speech (which may undergo the rather different critical norms of art).
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Michael Satlow’s podcast, “From Israelite to Jew 1: Between Faith and Reason,” is a good introduction for people of faith to the reasons and presuppositions of academic religious studies.
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A recent round of entries concerns anti-Judaic bias and use of evidence in early source-critical biblical scholarship. The comments to these posts represent a good example of critical collegiality on bias and evidence.
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