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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Five Books That Have Most Influenced Me

Ok John (Ancient Hebrew Poetry) I take the challenge. Here are the  five books that have helped me and challenged my understanding of the Bible.

Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright. What can I say about this book? It forever changed my life and perception about the New Testament, Jesus and Judaism, and salvation history.
The [...]

Jobs in Biblical Studies,Theology and Others

Here are a couple I note below:
From The Chronicles of Higher Education
3/25/2009

Our Lady of Holy Cross College (Louisiana) : Fulltime Theology Instructor

3/28/2009

Sewanee: the University of the South (Tennessee) : Director for Education for Ministry

3/13/2009

Miami University (Ohio) (Ohio) : Visting Instructor/Assistant Professor, Ancient Jewish Studies/Rabbincs

From HigherEdJobs
 

Professor – Philosophy, Greek, New Testament
Philosophy (Posted 02/12/09)

Houston Baptist University
Houston, TX

Instructor, [...]

SBL DFW

The SBL regional meeting (Southwest, Texas) went well.  This year’s  attendance was remarkedly reduced to that of the previous year. My best guess is that more people did not come due to the national economic instability. As a consequence, few papers were presented. At any rate, it was good to see old friends from last [...]

New Book

Today I ordered from Amazon Michael Bird’s The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective . I met Michael last year in Boston at the ETS/SBL conference and attended his ETS paper   on Luther and Justification. The paper was very good and well received. Michael is just another brilliant Australian [...]