The Institute for Biblical Research meeting on Friday night featured Tremper Longman speaking on “Of the Making of Commentaries There Is No End: The Past, Present, and Future of a Genre.” Of course, Tremper knows firsthand about commentaries since he has been an editor and a contributor to many. “Why write new commentaries?” Tremper outlined [...]
It’s been a whirlwind of activity here in Grand Rapids. Our consultation came to an official end this afternoon, and then we had a terrific dinner at the home of one of hosts. We had a Brazilian BBQ (the meat just kept coming) and Brazilian side dishes (that I can’t remember how to pronounce) followed [...]
John Hobbins gives his list of “very best online resources for students of biblical Hebrew.” Check it out!
The BioLogos blog (Science and the Sacred) has a post with a summary of some of the discussion from the BioLogos workshop last week that sought to look at issues of science, evolution, and theology. A very necessary conversation! In the history of North American evangelicalism, there has never been a meeting like this. Gathered [...]
Pete Enns is the Friday “guest voice” for a second week over at Science and the Sacred (the BioLogos blog). This week he starts to describe in more detail what he means by an Incarnational Model for understanding the Bible. Models are intellectual constructs that try to account for data. They are ways of putting [...]
Working in ancient languages requires patience when working on a computer. This little bookmark is a handy reminder of the keyboard map for inputting cuneiform and transliteration using the Durham font set. I created and used this bookmark frequently when typing up papers for our Ugaritic class. You can download a PDF with two copies [...]
Pete Enns is the Friday “guest voice” in the science and religion dialogue over at Science and the Sacred (the BioLogos blog). He says this post is the first of several. Should be interesting! Check out what he has to say about Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible. In this first post, he [...]
A.K.M. Adam (on his blog AKMA) pointed out the article from Inside Higher Education which reported a study about technology in the classroom. Campus Technology, likewise, has an article discussing the report. Read their summary here. The surprising (really??) result is that faculty think they do a great job and students don’t think their profs [...]
If you read Fred Putnam’s piece about teaching/learning that I mentioned the other day, then you would probably be interested in looking over his very detailed proposal for The New School of Theology. Here’s a snippet from the proposal, which gives a a basic overview of the vision (later in the proposal are more details): [...]
Fred Putnam reflects on the nature of teaching and learning (and along the way tells us what does not count as teaching) in a presentation which he delivered recently: From Darkness into Gloom: A True Story. Required reading. Now.
In light of some of the recent discussions on illegitimate word studies, this post by Scot McKnight seems appropriate to point out. McKnight highlights Manfred Brauch’s book, Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible, which Scot does not think is getting enough discussion. McKnight quotes 5 common ways that Christians abuse Scripture and then [...]
Dr. Ellen Davis (Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity) has been spearheading a partnership with Renk Theological College in Southern Sudan. Listen to her describe what the Sudanese prioritized for their theological training, and why: A FEW YEARS AGO, when I asked the head of Renk Theological College in Southern Sudan to [...]
Gary Mannings and Brooke Lester have both pointed out two quotes that I reproduce below. I’ve paraphrased them numerous times myself in my classes and in defense of learning the biblical languages. Do I understand Greek and Hebrew? Otherwise, how can I undertake, as every Minister does, not only to explain books which are written [...]
Sigh. Too true. I think I am now ready to break down and start using Freedom. My good friend, Ros, found this bit of humor at We Blog Cartoons (and I somehow missed it when she posted it). Dave Walker created the cartoon.
BioLogos has a little post today about Astronomy. It is not an article, but it did remind me about a little pet peeve I have. It seems to me that Christians often focus all their attention on issues of biology and ignore the big questions that astronomy raises. I don’t have time today to put [...]
