{"id":2822,"date":"2010-10-08T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/asking-questions-on-academia-edu\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T14:17:00","slug":"asking-questions-on-academia-edu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/asking-questions-on-academia-edu.html","title":{"rendered":"Asking Questions on Academia.edu"},"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>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/Questions\/122\/When_reading_ancient_religious_texts_do_you_prefer_that_technical_terms_be_left_untranslated_but_with_a_footnote_providing_explanation_or_that_they_be_translated_with_a_footnote_explaning_how_the_term_differs_in_range_and_nuance_from_the_English_word_in_question_http_mandaeanbookofjohn.blogspot.com_2010_10_translating-utras.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">just tried out the new feature on Academia.edu<\/a> which allows you to ask questions and engage in discussion on a variety of academic topic. I posed the same question as in\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/translating-utras.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent post<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/mandaeanbookofjohn.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/translating-utras.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">translating a technical term in the Mandaean Book of John<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be interested to see whether and to what extent Academia.edu becomes a focus of discussion akin to what sometimes occurs at present on academic blogs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-183213985101438065?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just tried out the new feature on Academia.edu which allows you to ask questions and engage in discussion on a variety of academic topic. 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