Category Archives: Academic things
The Market Value of Your Blog is all that counts
Enough of these biblioblog rankings, and other such mysterious measures of biblical studies blog popularity. As everybody knows, the only true measure of a blog’s worth is what The Market will pay. Everybody now: “All praise to the Invisible Hand!” … Continue reading
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SBL on Monday, or Eurocentric Biblical Studies
Monday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. The African-American Biblical Hermeneutics section was the absolute stand-out section of the day. Discussing a small handful of rabbinic texts that are prejudicial in some way towards blacks (texts for which … Continue reading
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SBL on Sunday, or God was not intended to be taken seriously
Sunday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. The inaugural University of Otago reception. The club was pumping, standing shoulder to shoulder with various friends, associates, current and former students and faculty, and various party-crashers. It went … Continue reading
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SBL on Saturday, or How can one continue to be a communist after Stalin?
Saturday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. In the review of Antonio Negri’s The Labor of Job, Chairman Boer was seen to shudder and convulse in his chair when Erin Runions recited the following sentence from Negri’s … Continue reading
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ETS – Wandering Through the Exhibits
The ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) is kind of nice, I’ve decided. It’s sort of like kids pretending to be grown-ups, and forming their own play-academic society, and mimicing what the real academics do. I’ve tried to be cynical about it, but who … Continue reading
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