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Supporting Sheffield’s Students
Biblical Studies students at the University of Sheffield have a new website with a list of ways that others can show support for the Biblical Studies Department there as it faces the possibility of closure. HT: Mark Goodacre, Jim West
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Volume 32
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD), volume 32, has two codices. According to Oxford University Press: Description DJD XXXII presents the first full critical edition of the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) and the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll (1QIsab) in the style of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series. That is, whereas the photographs and…
RBL Newsletter (October 4, 2009)
The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include the following: New Testament and Cognate Studies Lars Aejmelaeus and Antti Mustakallio, eds., The Nordic Paul: Finnish Approaches to Pauline Theology, reviewed by Erik Heen Dietrich-Alex Koch, Hellenistisches Christentum: Schriftverständnis-Ekklesiologie-Geschichte, reviewed by Friedrich Reiterer M. Sydney Park, Submission within the Godhead and the Church in…
Kuhn and Popper
Thomas Kuhn acknowledges that Sir Karl Popper’s work earlier in the twentieth century somewhat anticipated his own view of science (Kuhn, Essential Tension 267). Nevertheless, Kuhn also identifies two meaningful distinctions that his work has vis-à-vis Popper’s (Worrall 66–71). First, Kuhn perceives favorably deep commitments to normal scientific traditions because these traditions (1) encourage substantive…
New Reference Works from OUP
The following two reference works are recently published or forthcoming from Oxford University Press, albeit with rather hefty, retail price tags: Publisher’s Summary: Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects…
Biblioblog Top 50 (September 2009)
Per the Biblioblog Top 50, New Testament Interpretation actually rose 74 spaces in August to 104. Thanks very much to everyone for their interest last month.