The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Gadgets, Technology on Jan 31st, 2009
I just bought my first Kindle edition of an academic text, Christopher Seitz’s Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets. I read the library’s copy when it came out, but I have been motivated to read it again more carefully along with Phil Sumpter’s review series on it. I figured I would [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 29th, 2009
Amy Wood of our local CBS affiliate posted this amazing newscast from 1981 about a few intrepid early adopters in SF who were reading their newspaper… wait for it… on their computers.
How Far We’ve Come
There are some wonderful gems in here, such as the fact that there were 2000-3000 computer users in the [...]
Posted in Culture on Jan 28th, 2009
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I sometimes wonder what future archaeologists and historians will understand about our society. It may seem unthinkable that future scholars would have as much disagreement about basic things as we do about the ancients, but I’m sure it seemed just as unlikely to those great old civilizations. Will historians understand our religious practices? [...]
Posted in Software, Technology on Jan 28th, 2009
Like many professors these days, I enjoy using multimedia content and slide presentations in my teaching. Whenever possible, I connect my laptop to the projector rather than using whatever dinosaur machine may be in the room or on the cart. One of the most embarrassing things in a presentation is when my laptop decides to [...]
Posted in Conferences on Jan 28th, 2009
I was thinking it would be fun to have a meet-up of bloggers attending the S-E regional meeting coming up in March. Has anyone seen discussion of this?
I will update this space if I find out something.
Posted in Software, Technology on Jan 25th, 2009
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I recently posted about my love for Mellel, calling it a “perfect text editor for writers.” It is designed for writing projects that require carefully structured and formatted documents, and it is the undisputed king of Hebrew, right-to-left word processing.
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The title of this post is the simpler way of putting a common academic term: the “anthropomorphizing of a deity.” Students sometimes squirm when I start to point out the mythological components of their favorite biblical stories, but it tends to help when I ask them questions along these lines:
Is God a human? (answer: no)
Does [...]
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I am working on a course proposal for our new “First Year Seminar” program. Next fall, I will have 12 incoming Freshmen reading Neil Gaiman with me and writing about mythology. Here is the course description:
Students in this course will explore mythological and religious themes in the writings of Neil Gaiman, including his books for [...]
Posted in Music, Radio Show on Jan 22nd, 2009
In the interest of distinguishing between the holy and common, not to mention the clean and the unclean, I have moved all of the Radio Show podcasts to the WPLS station website. You can subscribe to the podcast feed with this link.
Posted in Academia on Jan 22nd, 2009
James McGrath over at Exploring Our Matrix has posted an interesting argument that fundamentalists mistake faith for doubt, and vice versa. The gist is that people who are too afraid to encounter troubling arguments or to have an honest discussion are in fact in the grip of doubt and fear, rather than acting out of [...]
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