[If there is a better way, please let me know!] If you want to search New Testament Abstracts by date of the NTA publication… Short Method (1) Log into EBSCOhost (2) Uncheck ATLA Religion database (3) Check “New Testament Abstracts” database. Click “continue.” (4) In the search box, type (ZR “YYYY”) . Example: (ZR “2008”)… Continue Reading
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Jim West is Right …
…in this case, for sure. Jim answers a question posed by an essay title related to the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships in Science & Religion: Is God Dying? The answer to the question posed in the essay title is – no. It’s extraordinarily interesting that folk seem to think about things always from ‘below’, from an anthropocentric… Continue Reading
Dreams and Research: Any Relation?
Tommy Wasserman recently discussed an SBL paper he’s working on: Right now I am working on an SBL paper on Mark 1:1, “The Son of God Was in the Beginning” (perhaps you can guess from the title which reading I am arguing for). In any case I am working through the patristic citations, which has… Continue Reading
How much caffeine do you get?
Wisebread.com lists caffeine contents in various drinks, foods, and medications, including my favorite… espresso! So how about that coffee? Coffee Coffee varies in caffeine content drastically, even in the same coffeehouse, on the same day. Everything from roast styles to brewing methods affect the amount of caffeine you get. The lighter the roast, the more… Continue Reading
Hermeneutics in the Blogosphere
After completing the brief series on existentialism and hermeneutics (pt 1, pt 2, pt 3), I noticed a few related discussion around the way worth mentioning: 1. Rod Decker interacted with the reader-response approach which Richard Hays seemed to suggest in Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989). 2. Ken Schenck shares an… Continue Reading
Existentialism and Hermeneutics (p3)
[Be sure to catch part 1 and part 2, first, and note Mike’s comment in p2 which highlights the importance of the terms we use when discussing philosophy]. The Strength of an Existential Approach to the Text? Sure…reading a text is an experience of sorts. Paul Ricoeur emphasized that reading a text leads to self-understanding. I… Continue Reading
Existentialism and Hermeneutics (p2)
Existentialism Existentialism is a philosophy which emphasizes subjective experience over against subjective rationality. I think of it as the view that all of life is like playing a tape (DVD or MP4 or your format of choice)–Someone has pushed play, and there are no other controls such as pause, rewind, or fast-forward. Thus, everything is NOW. Reality… Continue Reading
Existentialism and Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics? Hermeneutics asks such questions as, Where does the meaning of a text reside (if it has meaning at all)? How does one interpret a text? Does a text have a singular (or primary) meaning? What criteria are reasonable (if any) to determine whether or not a meaning is incorrect? Answers to such questions are… Continue Reading
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Me
If I had to choose a picture to summarize my life at this moment, it would be… Continue Reading