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Biblioblog rankings up
The Biblioblog rankings are up HERE.
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Last. Time. I. Invite. Joel. Over. Ever.
I invite you into my home. I cook a fabulous dinner for you … New Orleans style BBQ shrimp and smoked gouda grits, mind you. I provide you with your choice from a sampling of Louisiana’s finest beers. I give you king cake for dessert. And THIS is what I get in return. Shameful. Outright…
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Interesting text critical issues in Wisdom Literature?
In my Wisdom Literature class, we are talking about the transmission of the text of the Wisdom books. We’ll work through some examples of text critical issues in class. I have some examples already in mind, but I wanted to ask here: are there any interesting text critical issues that you have come across in…
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Ezekiel Bread – Joke's on You (VFTTB)
So, this is the third installment in my series on videos for teaching the Bible. This was kind of a result me putting two and two together in my head. And, it turned out to be a really good way to kick off my class on Ezekiel. I think I got a real laugh out…
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NT Wrong's Peeps and the New(ish) Home of the Blog Rankings
Well, whaddya know? Me and Daniel are NT Wrong’s peeps (Joel I wrote it like that on purpose, so don’t correct my English). And, as you may have heard, the BiblioBlog rankings (by Alexa rank) are going back where they rightfully belong, the original BiblioBlog Top 50 website. There’s very little that I will really…
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I'm a Mac, MyTouch, and Type Scenes (VFTTB)
This is second post in my series on videos for teaching the Bible. In my survey courses, I usually do a class session on how Biblical narrative works. In that session I discuss type scenes. Videos that I usually use are parodies. I explain that parodies function by exploiting a type scene. An easy example…
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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 …
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journal articles or books? (qotd)
here’s a question of the day for you: if you were stranded on a deserted island, and your goals were strictly academic (i.e. not reading for pleasure – perhaps you are going to send out a scholarly article in a bottle), and you could only read either a) academic journal articles or b) academic books,…
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Would you ever counsel someone to apply speed reading techniques to the Bible?
I’m just wondering about this. In the class I’m teaching in the Spring, I’m requiring my students to read all of the wisdom books in their entirety, but I’m going to council them to skim some of the sections. For example, I will give them a section of sentence proverbs to read normally, but tell…
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An embedded Prezi
When I teach and when I’ve posted here, I’ve gotten a couple of questions about Prezi. So, I’m embedding one of my “Prezis” here on the blog. It is highly integrated with social media. You can share them through FB and Twitter. You can embed them easily on a site, just link to them, or…