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Thielen, What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian?
Now at number 9 on Amazon’s top free Kindle book list is Martin Thielen’s What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian?: A Guide to What Matters Most (Westminster/John Knox, 2011). According to the product page, Thielen is a United Methodist minister from Lebanon, Tennessee, and in the book, Thielen has compiled…
Healing Theoden (a.k.a. Submitting One’s Dissertation)
For some reason, this clip, particularly Theoden’s last utterance under Saruman’s influence, seems oddly parallel to the process of concluding a dissertation. 😉 The oral defense is slated for later next month. For a brief abstract of my particular project, see here.
Donnerstag Digest (March 10, 2011)
This week in the blogosphere: Kirk Lowery discusses “Strongs Numbers & the Problem of a Universal Index,” particularly for Biblical Hebrew morphology and lexicography. Robert Woods reviews Henry Petroski’s Book on the Bookshelf. Chris Allen and D. A. Carson discuss the Westminster Catechism via rap (HT: John Byron). The SBL Greek New Testament is now…
Letting Paul Be Paul
In his Romans commentary, F. F. Bruce gives the following, sound advice for those who want to understand Paul better: We may agree or disagree with Paul, but we must do him the justice of letting him hold and teach his own beliefs, and not distort his beliefs into conformity with what we should prefer…
Donnerstag Digest (March 3, 2011)
This week in the blogosphere: Rod Decker highlights The Illustrated Guide to a PhD. Archaeologists begin excavating an Abrahamic-era water tunnel (HT: Joel Watts). The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae has released a version of the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon tagged to their textual database (HT: Tommy Wasserman). The E-corpus Digital Library has added 344 Georgian, Arabic, and Syrian…
February 2011 Biblioblog Review
Matthew Crowe has February’s Biblical Studies Carnival. In February’s biblioblog rankings, Jim West and Joel Watts again top the Biblioblog Top 50 Alexa chart, and James McGrath and Daniel Kirk top the vote-based rankings. By Alexa rank, then, February’s Student Biblioblog Top 10 lines up as follows: Student Overall Author(s) Blog 1 2 Joel L.…