Elsewhere in the blogosphere, John Hobbins<\/a> picked up on my mention of reading and hearing papers at SBL<\/a>. He makes some good points, but as I was particularly interested in exploring a connection between what scholars do at conferences (read and more often listen to papers) and the most common form in which ancient people encountered the writings that are now part of the Bible, namely as read to and heard by them. As scholars reading and writing about the meaning of these texts in a literate context as part of the largely literary enterprise known as \u201cBiblical scholarship\u201d, we need to spend more time reflecting on the Biblical literature in precisely the ways John encourages us to critically reflect on our papers and our delivery of them. Surely one can imagine someone sitting in the congregation that first heard the letter to the Hebrews read to them, and feeling that it was a case of TMI \u2013 i.e. \u201ctoo much information\u201d. At least the author had a sense of humor<\/a> about it\u2026<\/p>\n
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