Online Hebrew resources
John Hobbins gives his list of “very best online resources for students of biblical Hebrew.” Check it out!
Jim West’s International Influence
We all know that Jim has been ranking high in the blogosphere numbers over in New Zealand. Little did we realize that the Kiwis’ affinity for West’s profundity would have such an affect on their national integrity. Read here for details about the ranking of New Zealand as the least corrupted country in the world. [...]
BioLogos: In Search of a Theology of Celebration (Workshop on Science, Evolution & Theology)
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 (Part 2) at Science and the Sacred blog
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 [...]
SBL tips
Jim West has a great post giving his best tips (actually, 10 commandments) of how to “do” the SBL annual meeting. UPDATE: Mark Goodacre has also added his sagely advice here. I’d like to add one very important suggestion: Wear comfortable shoes!! Even if you are staying in the headquarter hotel, you may have signed [...]
Visual Tools for Learning Hebrew
Some people are visual learners (I’m one of them). Here are a few visual charts to help students remember some details of Biblical Hebrew. Click on the images to download the full size versions. When I teach weak verb forms, I like to draw attention to the fact that the Qal imperfect, imperative, and infinitive [...]
Pete Enns on Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible
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 [...]
Using and Abusing Scripture
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 [...]
The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1 (Mark S. Smith’s new book)
I just received my copy of Mark S. Smith’s new Fortress Press book The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1 which Jim West announced in August. For the record, I bought it myself. Perhaps with my newly earned position of #28 in the Biblioblogs Top 50 for October (up 127 places from last month), I will [...]
Much ado… or much to do?
Gary Manning, on his blog Eutychus, has gone through the effort to produce a very good line by line refutation of the argument found in the Alef-Tav video that I pointed out at the end of my post ( Etymology Studies Live ) the other day. I am going to bump a comment into this [...]
JStreet Conference Round-Up
I don’t have time to do more than point out the Velveteen Rabbi’s roundup of her live-blogging of the J-Street conference. I tried to read all her posts as she put them up while at the conference. Take some time to read through them. Why? Perspective.
New ideas for teaching and curriculum
The Velveteen Rabbi (Rachel Barenblat) is at a pretty cool conference this week (the Pop!Tech conference in Camden, Maine) and she and her husband are live-blogging some of the sessions. Check out this session (with Dennis Litky) for some ultra creative ideas for high school and college curriculum. Be prepared to think (way) outside the [...]
Bibliobloggers not the only ones with gender issues
Last month there was quite a bit of discussion about the number of women who are biblioblogging (see the last Biblical Studies Carnival for a good roundup of the discussions). Therefore, I found it very interesting to find this post today. Apparently, the UK Times’ new science magazine Eureka has been accused of being male-centric [...]
Accordance User Tools available (from D&T)
Hebrew and Greek Reader has two new Accordance User tools available that they generated (and are generously sharing): We’ve created an Accordance user tool compiling many of John Hobbins‘ posts on biblical Hebrew and translations of various passages of the Hebrew Bible. We hope you find it useful. As of now, its only up through [...]
Take 5: Interview with Pete Enns
Many blogs do a fine job introducing us to folks via interviews. I decided to take another tack on interviews. Rather than a long interview, I’m only going to ask 5 questions. Hopefully some of them may be a little unexpected and will yield some interesting answers. My first guest for “Take 5″ is Dr. [...]
