{"id":24597,"date":"2014-06-21T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=24597"},"modified":"2014-06-21T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T12:45:25","slug":"bro-do-you-even-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/06\/bro-do-you-even-scholarship.html","title":{"rendered":"Bro, Do You Even Scholarship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It struck me recently (perhaps when I noticed a look of exasperated eye-rolling condescension on the face of a Biblical scholar) that the \u201cBro, do you even\u2026?\u201d meme had yet to get a Biblical studies treatment. And so I made the following. Which scholars were included was determined solely by whether the expression on their faces matched an appropriate expression of this sort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24600\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/Bro-do-you-even-scholarship-Francesca-Stavrakopoulou.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24598\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/Bro-do-you-even-exegete-Wil-Gafney.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24602\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/Bro-do-you-even-archaeology-Cargill-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24601\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/Bro-do-you-even-archaeology-Cargill-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"457\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24599\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/Bro-do-you-even-Bible-Kugel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"711\"><\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering why Bob Cargill is on here twice, it is simply because I expect this to be the sort of thing that he\u2019ll get a kick out of, and also because he was the first scholar I expected to find a photo of rolling his eyes \u2013 although I didn\u2019t find the photo that I thought I would.<\/p>\n<p>Who else deserves to be part of this meme? Make your own and share them!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It struck me recently (perhaps when I noticed a look of exasperated eye-rolling condescension on the face of a Biblical scholar) that the \u201cBro, do you even\u2026?\u201d meme had yet to get a Biblical studies treatment. And so I made the following. 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