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: 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 »
Summary: COS today: a letter about logs, and 12-Dynasty propaganda, both more exciting than it sounds.
Filed under: Ancient Near East, Books & Reviews, Old Testament | Tagged: Context of Scripture, Hebrew Bible, history, inscriptions, literature | 2 Comments »
Summary: Planning some short reading to better understand ancient Egyptian religion.
Filed under: Ancient Near East, Research | Tagged: Context of Scripture, Egypt, literature, religion | 1 Comment »
Summary: what would you like to see in a course on “The Old Testament in the New Testament”?
Filed under: Education, Old Testament, Research | Tagged: allusion, Hebrew Bible, literature, New Testament, teaching | 5 Comments »
Or do you hear the strains of a modern Qohelet in the weary workplace recollections of a dime-store Cassandra? (Eff-Bomb Alert: grown-up language for grown-ups.)
Filed under: Links, Old Testament, Stubby | Tagged: economics, Hebrew Bible, literature | Leave a Comment »
Summary: Charles Halton has offered a schedule for reading Context of Scripture in a year. Anybody besides me giving it a shot?
Filed under: Ancient Near East | Tagged: collegiality, history, inscriptions, literature, reading | 8 Comments »
Summary: What sorts of questions do/might you ask in start-of-term student surveys? What resources are you aware of?
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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 »
