Monthly Archives: June 2011
Computerized Pentateuchal Source Criticism: Koppel, Akiva, Dershowitz and Dershowitz
Ha’aretz reports the development of software which can do Pentateuchal source criticism. The software is described in a paper by Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz and Nachum Dershowitz, entitled “Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components”, presented at The 49th … Continue reading
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The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done? 5. New Manuscripts
The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done?: Ok, that‘s all the suggestions I have, Pat. Hope the future of biblical studies picks up on some of them. (But I’m not going to rip off The Esteemed Berlusconi Youth … Continue reading
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Angel Wars by Stephen Quayle: Anakim or Anakin?
There is a new book out this month from Gigantologist, End-Times alarmist, and urban survivalist, Stephen Quayle: Angel Wars: Past, Present, and Future: Who knew that the Forces of Light had lightsabers? The comments accompanying publicity for the book are great – … Continue reading
The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done? 4. Genre
(Click on the pic, and it gets bigger) First, if I were writing Jesus and the Victory of God today I would certainly want to highlight economic issues more than I did… I loved the way Sylvia drew out these … Continue reading
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The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done? 3. Austerity
Innovation in The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done?
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The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done? 2. Technique
(click on the pic, and it gets bigger) Imagining The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done?
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The Future of Biblical Studies: What Research Still Needs to Be Done? 1. General Strike
One of the perennial problems faced by graduate students is the pressure to find an original idea. Biblical studies may be one of the most challenging research areas to find something new to say. This panel includes scholars who have … Continue reading
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Better than Epicycles: Reconciling the Bible’s Flat Earth with the Somewhat More Realistic Globe
The Ptolemaic conception of the universe, in which everything revolved around a stationary Earth, relied on positing “epicycles” to explain any irregularities. Ptolemy himself employed them to explain why the five planets (“wanderers”) and the moon headed off in a different direction from … Continue reading
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Small Mercies at the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention
Business Time at the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention, Phoenix, Arizona SBC Resolution On The Gender-Neutral 2011 New International Version
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Baptists call for the Bible to be Banned: The Women-hating Southern Baptist Convention of 2011
Despite the fact that the 2011 New International Version (NIV) translation of the Bible got rid of more than a quarter of its gender-neutral language, bowing to the reactionary response by ultra-conservative Christians to the earlier gender-neutral TNIV… … and despite the fact that … Continue reading
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