Summary: So, just take the Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature in this hand, and Blum’s Studien zur Komposition des Pentateuch in the other…
Filed under: Research | Tagged: Akkadian, allusion, criticism, literature | 3 Comments »
Summary: Suddenly, a shot rang out. A door slammed. The maid screamed. Or, Grading papers at the Pentateuch party.
Filed under: Old Testament | Tagged: academia, blogging, collegiality, criticism, grading, pentateuch, reviews | 3 Comments »
Summary: an instructive kerfluffle about sectarian claims in the books and book reviews of academic biblical studies.
Filed under: Books & Reviews, Critical Thinking, Education, Links, Old Testament | Tagged: Critical Thinking, criticism, Hebrew Bible, literature, New Testament, religion, SBL | 5 Comments »
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.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Links, Old Testament | Tagged: academic integrity, anti-Judaism, blogging, collegiality, Critical Thinking, criticism, Hebrew Bible, history | 3 Comments »
Summary: a characteristic of “Bible woo” is the promise of simple and comfortable explanations to inconvenient textual evidence.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Links | Tagged: academic integrity, Bible woo, Critical Thinking, criticism, culture, religion, science, television | 1 Comment »
Summary: Help me by naming women scholars in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament whom you consider to be indispensable sources for teaching and learning biblical studies.
Filed under: Education, Old Testament | Tagged: academia, criticism, Hebrew Bible, sex, teaching | 17 Comments »
Folks…are…talking about Alan Lenzi’s new blogchild, “Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion.” As you can see from the introductory post, the plan is for biblical scholars to reflect on how they find the ongoing academic study of the Bible to affect their religious faith. This could be an exciting and illuminating collaborative work, and I hope [...]
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Are there responsible ways to expose our students the fullness of sketchy and irresponsible claims found on the Internet, in the interest of finding fodder for critical evaluation?
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Bryan Bibb posted recently on Ben Witherington’s review article of Bart Ehrman’s latest book, Jesus, Interrupted. I have not closely followed Ehrman or conversations about his work, but Witherington’s review gripped my imagination, because he brought the “Ehrman conversation” into the context of some of the essential critical questions that animate biblical studies. I am [...]
Filed under: Hermeneutics | Tagged: criticism, Hermeneutics, history, Hosea, ideology, literature | 2 Comments »
