Summary: What would your entry look like for the “Dance Your Ph.D. interpretive dance video contest”? Here is mine.
Filed under: Old Testament, Poetics | Tagged: dissertation, Hebrew Bible, Hermeneutics, humor | 2 Comments »
“Uh, What Kinds of Biblical Historical Conclusions Do You Usually Have Here?”
Posted on April 10, 2010 by anummabrooke
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.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Education, Old Testament | Tagged: academia, academic integrity, Critical Thinking, culture, Hermeneutics, politics, religion | 25 Comments »
Write the Bible
Posted on January 8, 2010 by anummabrooke
Summary: In a possible writing/discussion assignment, students would add material to a given biblical narrative, explaining the goods of there additions and commenting on one another’s choices.
Filed under: Education, Old Testament, Writing | Tagged: Hebrew Bible, Hermeneutics, learning, write the Bible, Writing | 11 Comments »
Breaking News, Anumma Style
Posted on May 19, 2009 by anummabrooke
Michael Berubé has been back at it for months, it turns out.
Filed under: An Informal Word, Links, Stubby | Tagged: academia, culture, Hermeneutics | Leave a Comment »
Kings on NBC: Who Knew?
Posted on April 22, 2009 by anummabrooke
How have I missed this? Kings on NBC: A show…based on the rise of David to the throne…set in a monarchy that is culturally and technologically more or less modern-day American. David Shepherd slays a Goliath-class tank, to become a feared darling in the court of King Silas of Gilboah, in the modern city of [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Old Testament | Tagged: culture, Hebrew Bible, Hermeneutics, minions, religion, television | 1 Comment »
Hearing Out the Text: A Hermeneutic of Suspicion and Openness to the Voice of the Other
Posted on April 9, 2009 by anummabrooke
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 »
