Jim West has what is allegedly a view from ‘the inside’. He says: I received the following letter from a Sheffield insider- a ‘Sheffieldian Deepthroat’ if you will – and was asked to share it. Read it all here. It raises question worthy of discussion for all those interested in education and biblical studies. Continue Reading
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Around the Blogosphere
Noteworthy this week: Mark Goodacre keeps us up to date with the Sheffield Biblical Studies Dept. ordeal. Steve Runge continues his discussions (and demonstration) of the usefulness of discourse grammar. AWOL links an open access journal, Studies in Ancient Art and Civilation. Lifehacker discusses a webapp for CV creation. (I’m not sure I’m interested, but… Continue Reading
A Bit of 'Cosmological' Humor from William Lane Craig
Reading a bit from Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology, I came across this bit of humor from William Lane Craig: Thus, throughout this broader Universe-as-a-whole, which is considered to be a quantum-mechanical vacuum, fluctuations occur which blow up, rather like the ears on a Mickey Mouse balloon, into distinct material universes. But immediately the… Continue Reading
GCR Task Force: "Purpose is Not Seminary Funding"
I know I’m not the only student involved in the SBC who is interested in GCR implications for seminaries (see my previous discussion). Daniel Akin, president of SEBTS, is beginning a series of posts on GCR myths (especially as they relate to the Task Force). The first post: “GCR Myth #1: The goal of [particular… Continue Reading
Noteworthy Recent Posts
AWOL links to another open-access journal. NTGateway adds some Wright-Dunn video. YouTube video here. TC guys mention a report and say: …the the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscript (CSNTM) has received a donation that allows them to purchase their own The Traveller’s Conservation Copy Stand. [O, to travel the world with Wallace… Continue Reading
Search Terms
It’s been popular lately for bibliobloggers to share funny search terms by which internet surfers wind up on their blogs. I received a hit today from a search for ‘Roman toilets’. Granted, this exactly reflected a post regarding the subject, but I wonder what the incentive for the search might have been! Continue Reading
Education: Quality not Quantity
As one who has been attending classes every semester since kindergarten (and hopes to teach until death), the topic of education interests me greatly. While I am especially interested in working out theological issues related to education, the following story caught my attention and is relevant to education in general. Apparently, President Obama has suggested… Continue Reading
Around the Blogosphere
Steve Runge served up two nice posts, one dealing with NT Discourse (segmentation) and a second dealing more specifically with presuppositions in scholarship. Geoff Carter shares a piece by Tim Holland on the Layouts of Roman Forts. Mark Goodacre discusses the synoptic problem (see the first two posts listed here) when tagged by James McGrath’s post… Continue Reading
What is a Teacher?
Part of my required reading this semester includes Jaroslav Pelikan’s The Christian Intellectual. I came a across this dynamite line today: Few tyrannies are more insidious than that of a teacher who is interested in disciples rather than pupils, who seeks to be imitated rather than transcended, and who is so sure of the correctness… Continue Reading
Maybe scholars should submit their brains for research, too!
Apparently quite a number of NFL players (most of whom are retired) have signed up to donate their brains (upon death) to concussion research (full story here). I wonder what we might learn if scholars in biblical studies did the same! Continue Reading