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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.
Donnerstag Digest (April 7, 2011)
The past week in the biblioblogosphere: Jim Davila notes the sad news of Ben Zion Wacholder’s passing. Larry Hurtado comments on lengths of book usage in the Greco-Roman world. A. D. Riddle and Ferrell Jenkins report the beginning of new excavations at Carchemish. Nijay Gupta notes one freely available chapter from each of two Companion…
Rasputin and Romans 6
In his Tyndale series Romans commentary, F. F. Bruce offers the following colorful, if also sad, illustration as he discusses Rom 6: A notable historical instance [of a tendency to read Paul as advocating antinomianism] may be seen in the Russian monk Rasputin, the evil genius of the Romanov family in its last years of…