Within the next two weeks, I will begin a series (of indefinite length) called Tuesday Time Travel: The Roman Empire and the Bible. Every Tuesday morning you can expect a succinct post regarding a bit of Roman backgrounds and how it affects our understanding of a particular passage of the New Testament. Most of the… Continue Reading
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Communicating Truth: Media Trends and the Future of Biblical Scholarship (4 of 5)
The subject invoked by the phrase future of biblical scholarship in the subtitle is one that fascinates me. Perhaps it is because those interested in biblical studies have never lived in a world of technology like that of ours. Granted, I am not the first to possess a ‘never before’ attitude. Other ‘revolutions’ in technology… Continue Reading
Jesus in an Age of Terror – Reading
A few days ago, Jim West kindly mentioned my blog and my current series about blogging and media trends. In his brief post, he suggested I consider James Crossley’s Jesus in an Age of Terror. I have perused the book and decided to hold off on comment until I have a chance to give it a… Continue Reading
Communicating Truth: Blogging with Integrity (3 of 5)
The central theme emerging in this series of posts is influence. I maintain my original conclusion: “If the content we publish is sound and profitable, influence is precious.” In the last post, the supreme benefit of using social media was the opportunity to expand influence. Now I turn my attention to blogging with integrity, which also… Continue Reading
Codex Sinaiticus Conference and René Larsen
The new Codex Sinaiticus website (experiencing severe overload) has stirred up a lot of media coverage recently. The guys at the TC Blog have posted brief highlights of the related conference and a commitment for further details. I am particularly fascinated about René Larsen’s discussion regarding the potential of manuscript localization based on spectrographic analysis. I doubt such… Continue Reading
Communicating Truth: Bibliobloggers and Spheres of Influence (2 of 5)
In the previous post of this series, I summarized the main points of a thought provoking article regarding media trends. The article did a bit of forecasting, but I would like to consider how recent trends in media (especially social media) might impact biblioblogging. In a later post, I will deal with media trends and biblical scholarship… Continue Reading
Communicating Truth: Media Trends and Why (biblio) Bloggers Should Care (1 of 5)
via baekdal.com For some time now, I’ve been interested in studying media trends and how they affect people (in general) and biblical scholarship (in particular). After reading an excellent post regarding media trends by Thomas Baekdal (it’s worth your time!), I wanted to reflect on what his contentions have to do with bibliobloggers and anyone else… Continue Reading
Martin Hengel (1926-2009)
According to Dorstener Zeitung, Martin Hengel has passed away at age 82. (A few biblioblogs have picked this up, though I think the initial blog post was here). Continue Reading
Still using Brenton's English Translation of the LXX?
Many are aware that the New English Translation of the Septuagint has been available online for sometime now. As far as I can tell, BibleWorks and Logos do not have this resource available for their respective software programs at this time. Using a Mac? Accordance makes the NETS available for $40 here. Amazingly, Accordance released… Continue Reading
Welcome
This site is a (sort of) continuation of my former blog. I have just switched over to wordpress (I love it!) and I plan to post regularly. Enjoy! Continue Reading