Introduction to Biblical Studies (Approaches to Biblical Studies) (Approaches to Biblical Studies): 10 (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies)
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | yesterday
I heard about it from Dave Black (who made some suggestions as to articles I should submit) who heard about it from Pat McCullough. In spite of Dave’s plan, I’ve decided to do these: Sin will find you out No respecter of persons Turn the Other Cheek Vengeance is mine Weeping and gnashing of teeth Worm that does not die Now that’s a [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | yesterday
It seems there really can’t be a financial crisis in the UK if the government is allowing this while attempting to dismantle biblical studies departments: The advertised position, in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, is for: “Research Officer – The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption [...]
Clayboy (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m working at the next Biblical Studies Carnival, so other blogging may be light to non-existent this weekend. The job is, I fear, a far larger one than it was.
Godzdogz (Free subscription) | yesterday
From 31 st June to 16 th July, eighteen young English-speaking Dominicans, both students and young priests from all over the world met in Cairo, Egypt for a workshop on Islam. The Master of the Order was represented by Fr Prakash Lohale, the Socius for Apostolic Life. The conference was organised by Fr Jean-Jacques Pérennès, the Order's Vicar for the Middle East and IDEO, the Dominican...
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
As much as ‘the Muse‘ or others might wish it were so. So it’s not a spoiler so much as it’s an anti-climactic wish projection on her part. She just wishes that’s where it ended. Posted in biblical studies
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Let me say right off that the science of climate change which is the core of this story doesn’t interest me at all. What interests, no what fascinates me, is the way the underbelly of academics have been exposed for all the world to see. Equally fascinating is the fact that climate scientists, [...]
Ancient Hebrew Poetry (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
I know there are people who like free online resources and blogging because they’re free. But that way of thinking depends on a number of false assumptions. It is as wrong-headed and short-sighted as the mantra that education, including a...
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Dave Black writes today, in reference to the SBL Annual meeting, From my experience at these conferences, occasionally one finds a unique thinker whose knowledge in many fields permits them to strike at the joints between the various academic disciplines — exegesis, biblical theology, philosophy, linguistics — and so to penetrate to the core of the [...]
Gentle Wisdom (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Many people seem to think that every interesting question about the Bible has been answered long ago. After all, it has been studied in depth for nearly 2000 years (more, of course, for the Hebrew Bible). For some of these people the best answers were given by their favourite Church Fathers, popes or Reformers. For [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Right here. Pretty impressive stuff too. Posted in biblical studies, Biblical Studies Resources
Hypotyposeis (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Richard Fellows has a blog called Paul and co-workers .
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Over in England, where dilettantism knows no such holiday as Thanksgiving, a particularly virulent and moronic form has appeared. Might I say to the film’s director, without hurting your feelings, that you are an idiot. Your project demonstrates all that is bad in popular understandings of both the New Testament and the life of Jesus. Please, don’t [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
In the words of the Psalmist (Ps 92) טוב להדות ליהוה ולזמּר לשׁמך עליון׃ Indeed it is! Happy Thanksgiving. Posted in biblical studies
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
It seems that Americans and Brits aren’t alone in the whole quest for academic freedom, or the only ones who strive to make the lie of such freedom a thing of the past. The Jerusalem Post has an op-ed worth looking at on the subject, from the point of view of a person very disinclined [...]
Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
All Things Considered has a must listen to story today (which just finished on the air and so there is as yet no audio link). It has to do with the apparent control of the publication of dissenting articles in scientific journals and the silencing of dissenting voices. E-mails stolen from a climate research center in [...]
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