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Something similar has happened again. A student this semester found LaMar Adams\u2019 work on the unity of Isaiah \u2013 but also found my blog post about that subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also had students cite the blog posts of other scholars who blog in assignments, and have heard from other scholars that their students have mentioned mine.<\/p>\n

There are lots of reasons for scholars to blog. But\u00a0inasmuch as one of them is to combat misinformation and offer mainstream alternatives to ideologically-slanted perspectives, I have the impression that what we do does indeed have some effect, however small.<\/p>\n

Perhaps next year, some student will find\u00a0this<\/em> post. And on it will go.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"