The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Academia, Publishing on Sep 15th, 2009
I heard about this study on the future of humanities journals in the new episode of the Digital Humanities podcast.
I am still working my way through the 55 page report, but the study concludes that the current journal ecosystem cannot be maintained through a move to exclusive online or open access distribution. As Robert [...]
I haven’t chimed in on the gender and biblioblogging stuff because I don’t think it’s a very interesting issue. As far as I can tell, the women in the field probably feel like they have better things to do. No one is preventing anyone from starting a wordpress.com blog, are they? If we were talking [...]
Posted in Academia, Gadgets, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Sep 11th, 2009
Yesterday I posted:
It is clear to me that Apple now needs an iTune U app for the Touch and iPhone. The content I have grabbed through iTunes U is still mixed in with other videos and audio files in my Videos and Music applications. In Music, they are not even with the podcasts, but rather [...]
Posted in Academia, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Sep 10th, 2009
Apple has quietly been putting together one of the best resources for higher education on the web, their collection of university sponsored and uploaded content called iTunes U. I have bragged on it a couple of times, as have many other bloggers. The new iTunes 9 software, however, is a game-changer. For [...]
I know what I said in my last post: “the time will come when the vast majority of the world’s knowledge will be available in portable, archivable, and justly-distributed electronic form.” I believe that, and I want to help make it happen.
This, however, is just silly. A Massachusetts prep school has gotten rid of 20,000 [...]
Jim West has posted information about the SBL’s project in development, The Bible in American Public Schools, which aims to help public school teachers address the Bible in their classes. Here is a page of general information and here is the “e-pub” Teaching the Bible. I am rooting big-time for this project. This is the [...]
Posted in Academia, Bible, Open Access Scholarship on Aug 25th, 2009
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This is exceedingly good news. Here is the press release:
Society of Biblical Literature Receives NEH Award
August 17, 2009
Atlanta – The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant to develop an interactive website that would improve public understanding of the Bible and its contexts. This website, “The World [...]
Posted in Academia, Open Access Scholarship, QOTD on Aug 25th, 2009
Wayne Booth, in his presidential address to the MLA in 1982:
When we fail to test our scholarship by making its most important results accessible to non-specialists, we also lose our capacity to address, and thus recreate in each generation, the literate public who can understand its stake in what we do.
Now take the idea of [...]
Posted in Academia, Conferences on Aug 19th, 2009
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I received this from Prof. Schipper.
Highlights for our 2010 meeting include our plenary address by Dr. Benjamin D. Sommer, Professor in the Department of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and our presidential address by Dr. Kenton Sparks, Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University.
This will be an excellent [...]
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This is from his characteristically engaging and provocative essay, “Diminishing Returns in Humanities Research,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Before another year of hirings and promotions and awards passes, decision makers should sit down and examine the larger consequences of requiring a monograph for tenure, approving projects on well-worn subjects, and pretending that books and [...]
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