Jeremy has not only posted the rankings for this past month, but also shared some tips on how I could have ranked higher. I’ll know better for next time…

I just realized that, if we manage to organize a session on science fiction and the Bible for next year’s SBL, which will be in San Francisco, we can bill it as “SF in SF”! If that doesn’t convince you that 2011 is the year to do this, then perhaps nothing will! And just think [...]

Today in my class on Revelation we were up to chapter 19, which features the second of three instances in which we expect a climactic battle only to have no battle described and the victory of God/Christ proclaimed. We had previously discussed the challenges of turning absolute monotheism into a narrative with plot, suspense and [...]

While it is still the case that the Mandaeans (and the plight facing them in their historic homeland) are not as well known today as they ought to be, the internet is contributing immensely to the spread of knowledge as well as to the Mandaean community’s preservation of a sense of identity in spite of [...]

Via Antonio Lombatti and Jim West, I became aware of an article on the background to the Gospel of John. It is by Vhumani Magezi and is in the open access journal based in South Africa HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 66:1 (2010). I’ve only read those sections that discuss the Mandaeans, but was [...]

This semester, students in my course on the Book of Revelation had as one of their assignments to evaluate a web site and post their evaluation on a blog set up for this purpose. I’ll be reading their posts over the coming days, but I wanted to share a link to the blog so that [...]

Although discussions of digital materials and copyright have featured on this blog, I had to share this conference about copyright not so much because of that interest, but because of the Star Trek theme. The conference is being called: Digital Trek 2: The Wrath of ©han It is due to be held at Ball State [...]