Hevel.org: A Chasing after Wind

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.  [...]

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Jeremy Thompson over at FreeOldTestamentAudio.com has posted a link to a series of lectures that Brueggemann gave in 2004 at the First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville. [Jeremy has a bunch of other helpful links, so be sure to browse around his great site.]
I’m listening to Leviticus as I type.
Thanks to Prof. Brueggemann and [...]

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I mentioned a while back that I have been listening to Anathea Portier-Young’s lectures from her Spring 2007 Old Testament course at Duke Divinity. I am close to being finished, and as I expected, they are terrific.
I want to highlight one that I listened to today while walking around the Furman lake, her [...]

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I have begun listening to Thea Portier-Young’s course lectures for the Spring 2007 section of OT12, which I gather is the second semester of their OT introduction.  I had a short conversation with her after the syllabus workshop at the Southeast SBL meeting last week, and our approaches to teaching the OT is very similar.  [...]

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Last Friday, I gave a presentation at the southeastern regional meeting of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion on “Open-Access Journals and the Future of the Scholarly Community.”  I will be writing much more about this topic in the near future.
In addition to this post describing my presentation and the questions afterward, and [...]

 

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Last night, I was very happy to have dinner with a few friends: Jim West and his daughter, Frank Jacks, David Garber, and Doug Watson. We had a good time swapping stories about such notables as Philip Davies and Wenzel van Huyssteen.
This morning, I moderated a session of very fine papers by [...]

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I presented a paper at the Southeast NABPR meeting this morning titled “Open Access Journals and the Future of the Scholarly Community.” It is based to some extent on this post from last month, and in fact uses that post’s four theses as part of its conclusion.
I spoke from a fairly complete outline rather [...]

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At John Knox Presbyterian Church we are in the midst of a 7-week survey of some key issues and figures in church history. In order to give people the opportunity to review and to catch up with missed sessions, we are recording the lectures and making them available here.

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