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March 2011 Biblioblog Review
Having been away this past weekend, I have just gotten to pull March’s top student biblioblogs. March’s top 10 by Alexa rank are: Student Overall Author(s) Blog 1 2 Joel Watts Unsettled Christianity 2 6 Brian LePort, JohnDave Medina, Joshua Smith, Mark Stevens Near Emmaus: Christ and Text 3 13 Amanda Mac, Rodney Thomas, Chad…
On the Humanities and Their Coherence
Recently, at the first, annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Louis Menand, Professor of American Studies at Harvard University, addressed attendees regarding “[w]hy the case for liberal education is so hard to make”: Nowadays, everyone believes that “it’s good for people to be introduced to the humanities,” said Dr.…
New Innovations from Google
Never failing to amaze, Google introduces several du jour innovations: Gmail Motion Beta Google Docs Motion Beta Chromercise I particularly like the new protocol for creating a Google Docs Drawing (pictured here) and think it may make Google Docs much more useful for biblical studies. 😉
Donnerstag Digest (March 31, 2011)
Recently in cyberspace: Southern Seminary provides a set of recent lectures by Richard Bauckham (HT: Tim Henderson). Jeremy quotes Henri De Lubac “on the dangers of learning our catechism against someone.” The Center for the Study of Christian Origins provides a lecture and question and answer session by Larry Hurtado. Reports begin circulating about several…
New and Forthcoming Resources from Logos Bible Software
Logos Bible Software has recently released or will soon release several noteworthy resources: Brill Philo Studies Collection Comments on Waltke and O’Connor: An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax Camp Logos Live (DVD) Evangelical Exegetical Commentary Qumran Biblical Scrolls
James, The Gospel of Ruth
Now at number 3 on Amazon’s top free Kindle book list is Carolyn Curtis James’s The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules (Zondervan, 2008), and Zondervan presently has the EPUB edition for free also. The book boasts favorable blurbs from Robert Gundry, Timothy George, and Karen Jobes. According to the Amazon product…