The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Blogging on Sep 11th, 2009
I am working on a major revision of the blogroll, but I wanted to point out this blog by Colin Toffelmire. I have enjoyed reading his posts, and commend him to you. Colin is also one of those folks that you see in comments all over the place, which in my view a sign of [...]
Julia O’Brien has started a promising new section on her site called “Reading the Bible as an adult,” devoted to the idea that the Bible is, at heart, engaging and nuanced literature that speaks to people within and outside religious communities. It is tragic, to use her word, that Christians have so thoroughly yoked the [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jul 11th, 2009
Eh, why not?
These are in random order; ranking these would be just impossible and cruel. They also reflect recent posting and reading patterns. A few of my favorite blogs have been rather quiet this summer.
Jim West. What can I say that has not already been said? By Jim.
Brooke Lester, Anumma. Brooke is a friend from [...]
Mark Goodacre has added to his repertoire of good things by starting a podcast, called NT Pod. I’ve listened to the first one, and it’s very enjoyable. Thanks, Mark!
[This podcast also reaffirms my thesis that folks with a British accent simply sound smarter and more authoritative.]
Are there other biblioblog podcasts that I should [...]
This summer I will be teaching a course for laity at the Foothills Presbytery of Upstate South Carolina titled “Theology of the Old Testament Prophets.” We will meet 7 times, with 3 hours per session, on various Saturdays and Tuesday evenings in July and August. Anyone within driving distance of Greenville is more than welcome [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jun 5th, 2009
Check out Joseph’s interesting Biblical Theology oriented blog.
Posted in Academia, Blogging, Open Access Scholarship on Jun 3rd, 2009
Via the if:book blog, you should definitely check out this post by Noah Wardrip-Fruin about his experiment with open peer review of an academic manuscript via blog comments. He used the CommentPress plugin, which lets readers associate comments with particular paragraphs of a blog post, to solicit peer review of his manuscript, Expressive Processing, forthcoming [...]
Posted in Academia, Blogging, Open Access Scholarship, Publishing on Jun 1st, 2009
I have spent some time here thinking about “scholarly communication,” and particularly about the philosophical and ethical aspects of profit-based academic publishing. The recent biblioblog conversation about blogging however, immediately jumped to my mind when I saw this article on how electronic media changes the nature of writing itself, or at least the writing market [...]
Once again Jeremy has come up with the goods, in this case a lecture at UC Santa Barbara from eminent scholar Robert Alter on “The Bible Through Literary Eyes.” I’ve watched about 1/3 of it, and so far I highly recommend it.
There has been some discussion recently about “why” a scholar should host a biblioblog. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Software, Technology on May 27th, 2009
I have been mostly absent from the ‘net for two or three weeks, but my new computer is here and I have a few weeks at home before we start traveling again. Imagine my pleasure to come back to 615 unread posts in my “biblioblog” category in Google Reader. I am still working through the [...]
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