{"id":3300,"date":"2008-11-20T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/11\/sbl-boston-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T13:56:00","slug":"sbl-boston-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/11\/sbl-boston-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"SBL Boston 2008"},"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><div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbl-site.org\/assets\/images\/site\/sblLogo.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sbl-site.org\/assets\/images\/site\/sblLogo.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a> \n<div>I will be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/sbl-site.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Society of Biblical Literature<\/a> annual meeting in Boston, beginning tomorrow, and whether I blog while there will depend on a number of technical issues beyond my control. 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