Author: J. David Stark
Biblioblog Top 50 (July, 2010)
Jeremy Thompson has July’s Biblioblog Top 50 available. Jim West and Joel Watts again take the top two spots respectively. The top ten student biblioblogs are: Student Overall Author(s) Blog Alexa Score 1 8 Stephen Smuts Biblical Paths 224909 2 9 Matt Dabbs Kingdom Living 228817 3 11 Mark Stevens Scripture, Ministry, and the People…
Bulletin for Biblical Research 20.2
This year’s second issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in the mail yesterday and includes the following: Brian Gault, “An Admonition against ‘Rousing Love’: The Meaning of the Enigmatic Refrain in Song of Songs,” 161–84 William Wilder, “The Use (or Abuse) of Power in High Places: Gifts Given and Received in Isaiah, Psalm…
Hansen on Christian Community and Obedience
In commenting on Phil 2:12 in his recent Pillar series volume, Walter Hansen observes the following about Paul’s description of Christian community and obedience: The church is an eschatological community, a colony of heaven. But in order for the heavenly reality to be a present, earthly experience, believers need to work out the salvation promised…
Bauckham on the Gospels as Historical Sources
In this clip, Richard Bauckham briefly abstracts his own argument from Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=292NTf1cCNw&hl=en_US&fs=1]
Bromine, Chlorine, and the Temple Scroll
Robert Cargill reports that a recent test conducted by Italian scientists suggests that the Temple Scroll’s papyrus was “cured using water from the Dead Sea.” Cargill also mentions a forthcoming test that could reasonably demonstrate a connection between the scroll’s ink and the water of the Dead Sea. Even if it does so, however, Cargill…
Computing Ugaritic
Sunday, National Geographic reported that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had successfully tested a computer system that, by itself, deciphered a substantial amount of Ugaritic “in a matter of hours” (MIT press release). This system is based on a statistical model developed by Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay of MIT and Kevin Knight…