Jeremy Thompson

Category: People

  • Jim West's Endorsement of Lawrence Schiffman

    It’s nice to see Jim West endorsing Lawrence Schiffman, his exact words being “He’s awesome.”  I have used two of Schiffman’s audio courses before from the Modern Scholar Series, The Hebrew Bible and The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique.  However, I had heard about issues concerning Schiffman (a charge of plagiarism, or…

  • For SBL Atendees Who are Switchfoot Fans

    Switchfoot will be at the House of Blues in New Orleans on Saturday night.  Not planning on attending myself, but I thought some of you might be interested.

  • For SBL Folks Bringing Kids or Who Love Disney

    If you’re bringing kids to SBL or love Disney, there is a new exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art.  It is in town in relation to the release of Disney’s new film The Princess and the Frog.  It is called “Dreams Come True” and you can find out more about it HERE.

  • Younger Sons who Rise to Prominence in the Bible

    I am currently reading The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity by Jon D. Levenson.  I’m about halfway through and it is easily one of the best books I have read in a long time.  He covers some similar issues in this VIDEO which I have…

  • James McGrath on the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch (Funny)

    Okay this is one of those things that got me laughing.  I realize that my sense of humor is not normal, but that’s okay.  This may not be for everyone.  I read this title on one of James McGrath’s posts in the RSS feed for his blog – “Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.”  I have…

  • Name Changes in the Bible

    Going to be teaching on Genesis 32 tonight where Jacob’s name is changed to Israel.  And, I just started trying to recall some significant name changes in the Bible off the top of my head for illustration purposes.  Here goes: Abram -> Abraham Sarai -> Sarah Jacob -> Israel Joseph -> Zaphenath-paneah Ben-Oni -> Benjamin…

  • Harriet A. Harris on Fundamentalism and Evangelicals

    Recently, I posted pointed out what I felt was an instance of fundamentalism on the Desiring God blog. And, after a bit of conversation on FaceBook I think it might be helpful to explain the way that I use the term fundamentalism. For this term, I follow the approach of Harriet A. Harris who has…

  • Fundamentalism and Anachronism at Desiring God

    Yesterday there was a post on the Desiring God blog about “boring” passages in the Bible (why they put boring in quotes I don’t know; I would just call them boring), especially the Pentateuch.  There is so much wrong with the particular details of this post that it is difficult to really know where to…

  • Well, I Made the List of Biblioblogs – Now More Importantly, Where Will I Debut?

    I have made the list of “officially recognized” Biblioblogs.  You can find the list HERE.  But, really the most important question is where will I rank?  If my website’s Alexa stats keep up (1,368,819), I would perhaps debut around the bottom of the top 50.  However, I will not be satisfied with that.  It is…

  • A Lot of Good Posts over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry

    Wow! John Hobbins has been busy blogging for the last couple of days.  Ancient Hebrew Poetry is one of my favorite blogs to actually read.  Some blogs are good for a blurb here or there.  Others are good for a quick laugh.  But, John normally writes substantial posts in terms of content that are kind…