SBL Southwestern Regional Conference

I will be presenting a paper at the SBL Southwestern Region conference which will be held in  March 12-14, 2010 in  North Dallas, Texas. If you live or  are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area drop me an email so we can have coffee.  My paper proposal is noted below:
Theologizing The Black Atlantic, Black Liberation Theology [...]

Around the Blogs

I begin this post with a thought-provoking title from my dear friend Bill Heroman, What’s driving Evangelical Anti-Historicism?

First of all, I don’t like the term “evangelical” or/and “evangelicalism.”  They’re too limited in scope and definition. And I don’t reference myself as such, that is, an evangelical Christian. ( At any rate,  I take a different approach than my dear [...]

Prof. David Black on “Being a Scholar”

Prof. David Black shares with us  what it means to be a scholar. 
Do you have to be published to be considered a scholar? For what it’s worth, here are my two lepta. To be a scholar is to be a thinker. To be a thinker is to be a researcher. To be a researcher is [...]

John Anderson interviews Walter Brueggemann

Click here    to follow.  The interview is succint;  Brueggemann’s answers are thought-provoking, imaginative,  and of course, post-modern as his approach to Old Testament (See his  Theology Of The Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy).  For example, he responds
The Old Testament invites the church to a narrative reality that is open, pluralistic, and beyond all codifications.  The [...]

RBL Reviews

The Review of Biblical Literature is a publication of the Society of Biblical Literature (http://www.sbl-site.org).
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The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):
Richard Bauckham, Daniel Driver, Trevor Hart, and Nathan MacDonald, eds.
A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in Its Ancient Contexts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7111
Reviewed by [...]

A Recent Book by Richard Hays

Reading the Bible Intertextually by Richard hays and Stephan Alkier
 

Review
As recent scholarship has shown, no text is an island. Meaning is dependent on establishing precisely how one text is to be related to others and what text will legitimately count as a basis of intertextual conversation. This volume presents a wide range of options on [...]

Top Ten Blogs You Read Regularly

Yesterday I was thinking about which blog I read most and my top ten blogs. At any rate, I came up with my own list after thinking through the assignment. So I ask you too: What are the Top Ten blogs  you read regularly? Here’s my list below:

Rightly Dividing the Word (Nick Norelli). Nick always has [...]

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):
Richard Bauckham
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5650
Reviewed by Stephen J. Patterson
Michaela Bauks and Christophe Nihan, eds.
Manuel d’exégèse de l’Ancien Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7037
Reviewed by Uwe Becker
Per Jarle Bekken
The Word Is Near You: A Study of Deuteronomy [...]

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter, 12 June 2009

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):
Roger David Aus
The Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus and the Death, Burial, and Translation of Moses in Judaic Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6771
Reviewed by James Crossley
Mark G. Brett
Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6923
Reviewed by Roland Boer
Régis [...]

RBL Reviews

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/):
Frédéric Amsler, Albert Frey, Charlotte Touati, and Renée Girardet, eds.
Nouvelles intrigues pseudo-clémentines-Plots in the Pseudo-Clementine Romance: Actes du deuxième colloque international sur la littérature apocryphe chrétienne, Lausanne-Genève, 30 août-2 septembre 2006
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6852
Reviewed by Matthew W. Mitchell
Moshe Bar-Asher, [...]