Jeremy Thompson

Category: Personal

  • well, let's not all get our hopes up just yet …

    but, my dissertation defense may be sometime around mid-march, barring any unforeseen delays, of course.  and then, there’s the whole defense thing …

  • Anyone need to make a burnt offering?

    Because guess what I’ve been doing all day … Burning stuff. And, I’ve got a pretty good fire going. I. Hate. Yard. Work.

  • Blogging from my netbook

    so with a bit of money i got for christmas, i bought a used netbook really cheap off of craigslist.  i got it for a couple of reasons, primarily for travel and when we need a second computer around the house.  i also got it to experiment a little bit with linux.  i’ve been wanting…

  • Disseration News …

    Well, the hard copies of my dissertation have been submitted to the examination office at Stellenbosch.  Yesterday, I sent several DVDs that will accompany the dissertation that should arrive within the next week or so.  Hopefully, my defense will be scheduled for some time early next year. So, I guess that means I’m either a…

  • Why I read the NAB

    It’s taken me a while to put up this link.  But, I recently wrote a guest post at the invite of Chad and Rodney about why I read the New American Bible.  I’ll sum up the main points, but I hope you’ll head over and check it out.  First, I do not love the NAB. …

  • The super Catholic – Jeremy Thompson

    I’ll take that as a compliment.  It was great meeting you too Steve.

  • Best session so far – Jo Ann Hacket review

    My favorite session so far at SBL was the applied linguistics session focusing on the new grammars of Daniel Webster and Jo Ann Hackett, though the session was far more heavily weighted toward Hackett’s text.  The most interesting part of the session was the reviews.  And, what made the reviews interesting was that two of…

  • Best part of SBL so far

    The people … Caught up with Karyn and Daniel & Tonya a bit. Looking forward to doing more of the same tonight. Ran into a few folks from the Bible software consultation last week, Tarsee Li who helped me out majorly with some testing for my dissertation, and a couple of other bloggers. So much…

  • Looks like I'll be teaching in the fall…

    On the eve of my vacation I got some great news. Looks I will be teaching two courses related to the Old Testament come this fall. Still have to get some transcripts in and forms filled out, but I would be teaching a course through Loyola University in New Orleans and one through the Diocese…

  • A word about May biblioblog rankings …

    There won’t be any, or at least not on time.  I just didn’t want you to panic the day the rankings are supposed to be posted.  I’m going on vacation starting on May 29th and returning on June 6th. I’m not sure how some of you will survive the time without me.  I suppose you…