Neglecting Italian Scholarship
While in Italy, I had a conversation with a scholar from Sicily about the tendency for English-speaking scholars to ignore scholarship in languages such as Italian and Spanish. While I’ve tried to make...
View ArticleSNTS Montreal: Business Meeting and Opening Reception
The start of the official SNTS program yesterday evening was with the first of two scheduled business meetings. Business meetings are not always emotionally moving, but two moments in this one were....
View ArticleZondervan eBook Gospel Commentaries Sale
For those who want to add some Evangelical New Testament commentaries to their ebook collection, Zondervan currently has a sale which begins today and runs until the end of the week: 80% off the usual...
View ArticleAncient and Modern Interaction with Outsiders
Biblical Studies Online shared a number of videos from a conference about insiders, outsiders, and religious identity past and present. Below are a couple that will be especially interesting to those...
View ArticlePlagiarism in Commentaries and Commentaries on Plagiarism
Given that I’ve now had my first plagiarism case of the semester, the time seems right to comment on this topic. Let me begin with an infographic that explains different kinds of plagiarism and...
View ArticleFact Checking Politics and History
I constantly tell my students that the skills they learn in my classes are transferable, and so even if they are not especially interested in the subject matter, the things they learn to do are...
View ArticleScholars Love The Bible
Something I said a while back has been turned into a meme and begun to circulate on Twitter: .@ReligionProf: Quote of yours from 2015 that I liked and kept. Came across it and figured it needed a meme....
View ArticleScholars Using Social Media
Larry Hurtado, Deane Galbraith, Scot McKnight, and Bob Cornwall are among those who’ve already mentioned a new book that many more contributed to, including myself: Thomas Jay Oord’s edited volume,...
View ArticleSecond Temple Early Career Academy
Charlotte Hempel shared this news on Facebook: We are today launching the STECA Blog – A Virtual Common Room for Doctoral Researchers and Early Career Researchers in Second Temple Judaism and beyond....
View ArticleRepresentation in Scholarship #womenalsoknowbible #womenalsoknowreligion...
Seeing the Inside Higher Ed piece about the Twitter hashtag #womenalsoknowhistory, which then led me to the Chronicle of Higher Education article about the website by the same name, I found myself...
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