2012-11-29T23:38:02-05:00

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  Butler University has enthusiastically celebrated the research, scholarship, and creative work produced by your undergraduate students and ours for 25 years!   Please join us in commemorating a quarter-century of undergraduate research by submitting your work (if you are a student) or inviting your students to submit their best work to the 25th Annual Butler Undergraduate Research Conference The submission system will open on December 10, 2012 and the last date to submit an abstract is February 13, 2013. Visit www.butler.edu/urc for... Read more

2012-11-29T22:19:16-05:00

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It has been a while since I have blogged about mythicism. But several mythicism-related blog posts have appeared over the past day or so. I will start with the most entertaining. Rene Salm managed to get a paper accepted at SBL, and not only has he shared his paper online, but at the blog Vridar there are also excerpts from Salm's account of the conference. Apparently he saw me there, and based on his description of me and his comments... Read more

2012-11-29T20:43:07-05:00

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When I saw the above image on Episcopal Church Memes on Facebook, my first reaction was, “Why is that supposed to be funny?” The NRSV with Apocrypha is the standard in academic study Bibles – the New Oxford Annotated Bible, the Access Bible, the Harper Collins Study Bible, and many others. And so I use the NRSV with Apocrypha all the time. (As I mentioned earlier today, the NRSV is now accessible on BibleGateway.)The other version I use most often... Read more

2012-11-29T15:10:07-05:00

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And I thought that trying to shop only at stores that say “Merry Christmas” was bad… HT Roger Wolsey   Read more

2012-11-29T14:56:18-05:00

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Henry Neufeld shared the news that BibleGateway now includes the New Revised Standard Version, the translation used in many academic study Bibles used in colleges and universities. Read more

2012-11-29T14:44:08-05:00

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I was putting off responding to Tony Jones’ recent provocation to progressive Christians to answer the question “Why an Incarnation?”, but this cartoon a friend shared on Facebook made me decide to get to it sooner: As someone who is not only a progressive Christian, but also a New Testament scholar, the conversation for me must always begin with whether an incarnation before moving on to why. A progressive Christian is one who is not merely open to rethinking things because of... Read more

2012-11-29T09:39:31-05:00

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David Hayward has created another wonderfully provocative cartoon. This one depicts God asking a difficult question at the final judgment: Read more

2012-11-29T08:47:54-05:00

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Anthony Le Donne suggested on his blog (and in a recent conference paper) that a story in the Babylonian Talmud, in b. Menaḥoth 29b, might be the first science fiction story. In it, Moses time travels to Rabbi Akiba’s time. But is time travel enough to make a story science fiction? I’ve long pondered this topic, namely when the phenomenon we label sci-fi first begins. Is the appearance of science in the modern sense essential to the definition? It is because of the... Read more

2012-11-29T07:31:01-05:00

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2012-11-28T22:40:54-05:00

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Today my class on the Bible focused on Song of Songs. This was my first time including the text as a focus. With so much to cover in a semester, it seemed in the past to be an obvious choice for something to leave by the wayside. But since it is highlighted in the textbook I am using for the first time this semester, The Back Door Introduction to the Bible, and since it illustrates just how diverse the contents... Read more

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