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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…
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Of the making of many books there is no end …
I’m reminded of this line from Ecclesiastes every year when I visit the book exhibit at SBL. I know that I have not yet published a book, but I’m becoming less and less impressed when people tell me that they have. Quite frankly, I’m also becoming more and more convinced that some publishers will put…
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Prediction
Great things will be happening among the biblioblogs in coming months. Hate that I had to leave the biblioblogging session early and arrived late at that. But, fantastic presentations by Barber and McGrath. Reenergized me for blogging quite a bit now that I’m trying to wrap up the dissertation. What a great atmosphere among the…
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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…
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Teaching the Bible: Practical strategies for classroom instruction
I’ve used or adapted a couple of activities out of Teaching the Bible: Practical strategies for classroom instruction (free preview at Google Books) this semester. And, I have to say that some of them have worked really well. Yesterday, we used one of the activities on Proverbs where we constructed a set of proverbs as…