Summary: toward a particular kind of open-access Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).
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Summary: A survey is offered by the Society of Biblical Literature: what would you like from general-public biblical studies web resource?
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Summary: Carmine Gallo tells us how to present like Steve Jobs. So let’s be field-specific: what about presenting Hebrew Bible/Old Testament like Steve Jobs?
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As fiction writers use “phlebotinum” to advance their plots, purveyors of pseudo-scholarship (or “woo-meisters”) misuse honest jargon as phlebotinum to create misleading accounts of the real world.
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A short introduction to iTunes University and YouTube/EDU
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Please help me shape a list of “essential questions”[*] raised for you by the book of Job. Offer suggestions or questions in the comments. What are “essential questions”? Briefly, they are big, open-ended questions that force one to evaluate one’s own evaluations. “What is worth fighting for?” is an essential question. “Should the U.S. continue [...]
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David Hymes wrote a thoughtful response to a Deseret News article in which Professor David Wiley was quoted as saying, “Institutions [of higher ed] will be irrelevant by 2020.” It turns out that Wiley claims to have been misquoted: his original utterance began along the lines of, “IF universities do not respond to certain crises [...]
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