2016-12-14T10:03:24-05:00

Last updated on: December 14, 2016 at 10:03 am   By

The Impact of Digital Humanities on the Study of Non-Canonical Texts One or two Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity (AAR) sessions in 2017 will be co-sponsored with the SBL Digital Humanities and Pseudepigrapha program units. All papers for these sessions should explore the influence of the Digital Humanities in general, and the ongoing digitization of manuscripts in particular, on the study of non-canonical texts. These texts must fall into the broad category of “pseudepigrapha,” or stem from or have been... Read more

2016-12-13T11:02:43-05:00

Last updated on: December 13, 2016 at 11:02 am   By

Here’s the second part of my conversation with Anthony Buzzard. It starts abruptly, but hopefully that won’t detract from most of the substance of the conversation. It was nice to have an opportunity to focus in this second webinar on points about which we don’t see eye to eye – whether there could be any value to Trinitarian imagery applied to God, for instance, and the nature of the Bible and the implications thereof for the theological enterprise. Read more

2016-12-16T15:12:56-05:00

Last updated on: December 16, 2016 at 3:12 pm   By

Dawn Trautman shared this image on Facebook. Does it match your perception of these sources? If not, do you assume that the issue is with the chart, or with your perception?   Also, does the infographic itself convey the message that being a political centrist is more correct than leaning to the right or left? Isn’t that assumption one that deserves to be challenged? And indeed, isn’t the fact that some centrist sources are criticized for sensationalism making precisely this point?... Read more

2016-12-10T13:16:26-05:00

Last updated on: December 10, 2016 at 1:16 pm   By

Even imagining what I am asking about here makes the request seem ridiculous. Every day, I imagine, someone somewhere sets a biblical text to music. And so surely no one would be so foolish as to try to publish a book which must inevitably be out of date before the manuscript is submitted to the publisher. Yet I feel I must ask, because as I shared in a post in October, I recently set a particular group of biblical texts... Read more

2016-12-07T14:46:35-05:00

Last updated on: December 7, 2016 at 2:46 pm   By

I recently had the chance to hear a performance of David Lovrien’s piece “Minor Alterations 2: Carols from the Darkside.” I enjoyed it immensely, and wanted to share it with you. Read more

2016-12-11T08:19:13-05:00

Last updated on: December 11, 2016 at 8:19 am   By

I had a conversation with Rev. Paul Albrecht recently, and he shared with me his view on the man who runs away naked in the Gospel of Mark. It is an interesting way of connecting the dots between elements in the story, and not necessarily an implausible one. Let me know what you think. Paul Albrecht’s suggestion is that, having departed from the Passover meal occurring in the upper room traditionally in John Mark’s house, the “Last Supper,” Judas would... Read more

2016-12-07T14:44:14-05:00

Last updated on: December 7, 2016 at 2:44 pm   By

The entire draft of the English translation of the Mandaean Book of John is still not available online. But I thought I would nevertheless provide a table of contents linking to the chapters that are there, for those who may be interested in perusing them. The Mandaean Book of John 00. Dedication 01. Truth’s Questions 02. Truth’s Questions (continued) 03. Yoshamin 04. Yoshamin (continued) 05. Yoshamin (continued) 06. Yoshamin (continued) 07. Yoshamin (continued) 08. Yoshamin (continued) 09. Yoshamin (continued) 10.... Read more

2016-12-09T13:32:56-05:00

Last updated on: December 9, 2016 at 1:32 pm   By

Courtesy of IO9, here’s the trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special, which we fans have been eagerly looking forward to… Read more

2016-12-08T18:30:03-05:00

Last updated on: December 8, 2016 at 6:30 pm   By

As a recent New York Times article highlighted, female composers have historically been neglected. I have no intention of allowing that to be the case in my course on the Bible and music. And so this post is not only intended to share some examples of settings of Biblical texts by women (and to be clear, it will not in any sense try to include every composition or composer I know of), but also to invite readers to share pieces that... Read more

2016-12-08T16:10:23-05:00

Last updated on: December 8, 2016 at 4:10 pm   By

I just heard the news that astronaut John Glenn has passed away. I will always consider it a great honor that something I wrote appeared alongside an interview with Glenn in a volume exploring the intersection of religion and spaceflight, Touching the Face of the Cosmos. For those interested in that volume’s subject matter, Space.com recently had articles on whether humanity should take religion with us into space, and how religion might motivate human space exploration. There was also an article on... Read more

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