Michael Fox discussed the second volume of his commentary on Proverbs with a group of bibliobloggers gathered at a dinner hosted by John Hobbins at the Deutsches Haus in New Orleans. Great food, fellowship, fun and discussion. The evening benefited Jericho Road, a charity rebuilding community after Katrina. I’ll post more about this fine evening [...]
The Exhibit Hall is open. Two adjoining halls of books.
Alan Streett, editor of the Criswell Theological Review sent me a note, which I quote here. The Spring 2010 Criswell Theological Review (CTR) will focus on the mind-body connection. Besides articles by Joel Green and other scholars, we will include the results of the first-ever survey of Christian attitudes toward hypnosis, which we have commissioned. [...]
Last month, I wrote about William Kamkwamba on my blog here and here. I was thrilled to see that his book is #10 on the Amazon Editors’ Pick list. I highly recommend the book. He describes his family and life in Malawi with detail and affection. The description of how his family survived a famine [...]
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 has been said about Crumb’s new Genesis comic. I’ll leave that to others to comment on. Instead, I want to highlight another graphic novel that’s been around for a few years, but which you may not be familiar with. The Jewish Publication Society released JT Waldman’s Megillat (Esther) in January 2006. It is still [...]
I know that I promised I would post my review of the JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible quite a while ago. I think I will be able to get that online when I get back from the Bible Translation conference that I am currently attending. In the meantime, the author of that children’s bible, Ellen Frankel, [...]
Today is the release of the new GLO digital bible. Many of us are hoping to get a chance to see it “up close and personal” to find out more than what the promo material tells us. Lisa Miller at Newsweek had just that chance (for an hour, when the GLO reps brought it to [...]
A day late. Sorry folks. But I think I may be talking to myself by now. So, since we are at #7, I think I’ll let that be the perfect ending of our little discussion group (for now). I know this was a little ambitious to take on (schedule-wise), so I will re-think another book [...]
Definitely worth the six minutes to watch William Kamkwamba’s TED talk. This July 2009 video is worth a million words. You can also see his original 2007 TED talk about his first windmill from their archive here. TED also has an expanded bio and other links here. From those links (definitely watch the short documentary): [...]
What’s up with all these GEB posts? If you missed what we’re doing, read here. Remember, I’m no expert on all this, I’m just helping facilitate. I’m trying to read along with the rest of you! Current Assignment: For Monday, September 28 Read: Little Harmonic Labyrinth and Chapter V: Recursive Structures and Processes Listen: The [...]
I’m eagerly anticipating the arrival of my copy of the soon-to-be-released JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible. The illustrations look to be beautifully rendered. But even more than the illustrations, I am looking forward to reading the stories from a fresh point of view. From the introduction: My chief aim in writing this book has been to [...]
