From The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus Read more

Jeremy has posted the biblioblog rankings for September. Read more

On his blog The Biblical World, John Byron has posted a conversation with James D. G. Dunn. Take a look and read his retrospective thoughts on an incredibly productive and influential career in New Testament studies, and his prospective thoughts on where the field is heading in years to come. Read more

Consider this the “quote of the day.” It is from an article on the Liberal Arts in Inside Higher Ed by Richard A. Greenwald: “The liberal arts always situate graduates on the road for success. More Fortune 500 CEOs have had liberal arts B.A.s than professional degrees. The same is true of doctors and lawyers. And we know the road to research science most often comes through a liberal arts experience. Now more than ever, as employment patterns seem to... Read more

Isaiah Mustafa (the actor from the famous Old Spice commercials) made an appearance on Chuck this week. I find myself wondering why they didn’t make a commercial especially for the occasion: “Hello ladies. Look at your Buy More. Now look at mine. Now back at your Buy More now back at mine…” Read more

Steven Demmler hosts the September Biblical Studies Carnival at his blog You Can’t Mean That! Read more

I’m not sure that casting Zeljko Ivanek in his role on The Event was a good idea. It might have been obvious anyway that there are similarities with a key plot element on Heroes, but having the same actor playing such a similar role makes it seem that much less original. The ordinary human in a leadership position in a federal security organization seeks to deal with the threat from people who are genetically different in important ways from the rest of us,... Read more

Today’s Speed Bump: Read more

A colleague forwarded me this video on three directions the book is taking as a result of new technology: Whatever you think of the video, I hope you find it an exciting and encouraging alternative to the future described in the title of an article in Inside Higher Ed: “Book: buk n (obs.)” Also related are an article on Google, search engines and student research habits, an article about DynamicBooks and College Open Textbooks, and ProfHacker’s article on the latest... Read more

HT Carmen Andres It is interesting to think that, if we continue to move increasingly towards cable and then internet as a means of distributing content, eventually phasing out the antenna broadcasts that leak our shows into space, some show currently on, if it continues long enough, might be the last TV show aliens pick up. Imagine if you are monitoring signals from a far-away planet. You see an episode of “Dancing With The Stars” (in its 32nd season) and then... Read more