The meme image above has been circulating a lot lately. It reminded me of a discussion I had a couple of years ago about the difference between the internet and a library. The former is a disorganized jumble of information. What it lacks is curation. Search results, whether in a card catalogue or a browser search bar, are not that. It takes human expertise to provide a guide through the shelves, the stacks, the things that are not there but... Read more
I recently had the above drawn to my attention. I wasn't even vaguely aware of it previously. No wonder we haven't been able to track down Q. I had been focusing all my attention on Star Trek, and had left Japanese television out of the picture entirely! Read more
Jim Linville mentioned on his blog that he has had a paper accepted for the Blogger and Online Publication session at next November’s annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The title is: May Contain Nuts and B.S. (Biblical Studies): The Politics of Academic Legitimacy Online and the Need to Properly Theorize the Category “@%!#*! Loonie” It will make a nice pairing with his Metacriticism paper, the title of which is: In Search of the Biblical Flintstones? Some Thoughts on Creationism, Academic Freedom,... Read more
Yesterday I became aware of an article that illustrates the dubious way Biblical inerrantists use (and that is the appropriate word, rather than something like “engage in”) archaeology. It included this: Peterson supports conservative Christians getting involved in archaeology in order to use archaeology as a way to prove the Bible historically. “We interpret the data from the fact that the Bible is inspired, and that it is history. The Bible can be validated based upon archaeology,” Peterson said. Can... Read more
Ricky Carvel recently posted on the implication of saying that one believes in a God who can do anything. Such a God can make a universe that offers no evidence of a divine creator. A God who can do anything can make a universe that was planned to be exactly as ours is, and bring it about entirely through natural processes. In other words, if God can do anything, then no evidence whatsoever is incompatible with the belief that God... Read more
You don't need to have read the Left Behind series to appreciate Fred Clark's slow roasting thereof. His combination of insight and sarcasm regularly has me laughing out loud. His most recent post is no exception. And at its core, it tackles a serious issue: the way the death of the character Jaime in Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist exposes Tim LaHaye's view of hell: I understand why a quick and painless death is usually thought of as preferable... Read more
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Bob MacDonald’s beautiful, musical, artistic Biblical Studies Carnival rounding up a wealth of posts from around the blogosphere over the past month is now available on the blog Dust. Brian Small has a round-up of blogging about Hebrews. Phil Long has some information about upcoming carnivals. I hope this allows you to appreciate that there was something good about this past March, despite the weather! Read more
AWOL shared a link to the New Testament Transcripts Prototype of the University of Munster Institute for New Testament Textual Research. If you aren’t already following AWOL – Ancient World Online – then you should be. It highlights fascinating online open access resources, such as the one mentioned above, or the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Preprints. If you don’t know it, and are interested in the ancient world, please do click through and explore, and consider... Read more
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