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  • On Being Ph(inishe)D, On Finished Being

    On Friday, Southeastern Seminary’s Graduate Studies faculty accepted my dissertation, “The Hermeneutical Roles of the Teacher of Righteousness and of Jesus of Nazareth in the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts and in the Epistle to the Romans” (abstract). This acceptance followed Wednesday’s oral defense where the committee had passed my project with minor revisions (i.e., correcting some…

  • Donnerstag Digest (April 21, 2011)

    This week in the cyberspace: Robert Woods discusses “Christian humanism.” Jeremy Thompson passes his oral dissertation examination. Congratulations! Mark Stevens points out that a new book on Jesus and a new translation of the New Testament are forthcoming from N. T. Wright. Jim Davila reminds us about the upcoming Metz conference on Paul and Qumran.…

  • Donnerstag Digest (April 14, 2010)

    This week in cyberspace: Tommy Wasserman mentions the discovery of a new, early papyrus fragment of Hebrews. James McGrath comments on Loren Stuckenbruck’s presentation at the recent Stone-Campbell Journal Conference. Amazon announces that an advertisement-sponsored Kindle WiFi is available for pre-ordering. Logos Bible Software releases a specifically academic training DVD set.

  • Bulletin for Biblical Research 21.1

    This year’s first issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in the mail last week and includes the following: Michael Graves, “Scholar and Advocate: The Stories of Moses in Midrash Exodus Rabbah,” 1–22 John Lawlor, “The ‘At-Sinai Narrative’: Exodus 18–Numbers 10,” 23–42 David Lincicum, “Philo on Phinehas and the Levites: Observing an Exegetical Connection,”…

  • A Selective Summary of Fields, “The Dead Sea Scrolls Today”

    Last evening, I was privileged to attend the second annual Prentice Meador Lecture at Lipscomb University. There, Weston Fields, the Executive Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, addressed what seemed very nearly to be a full house on the topic “The Dead Sea Scrolls Today.” Overall, most of Fields’ lecture surveyed certain notable features…

  • Kindling Aristotelian Poetic Penguins

    At least for the present, Amazon has available two Kindle versions of Penguin’s edition of Aristotle’s Poetics, page numbering included. The difference between the two seems mainly to be the difference between an older and a newer cover, with the version that has the newer cover retailing for $1.90.