Author: J. David Stark
TC 21
The newest volume of TC has been released, containing eight book reviews and the following articles: Gregory R. Lanier, “A Case for the Assimilation of Matthew 21:44 to the Lukan “Crushing Stone” (20:18), with Special Reference to 104” Aron Pinker, “A New Attempt to Interpret Job 30:24” Georg Gäbel, The Import of the Versions for…
Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting
Access to the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting is open and available online. JJMJS is: a peer-reviewed academic open access journal, published electronically (immediate free online availability) in co-operation with Eisenbrauns, with support of McMaster University and Caspari Center…. The journal aims, uniquely, to advance scholarship on this crucial period in…
SBL (e)mail badges and tickets
Apparently, name badges and tote bag tickets for this year’s SBL meeting will be distributed by email: In an effort to cut down on lines for badge reprints at registration, name badges will no longer be sent via postal mail. Instead, check your e-mail in early November for a special link that will allow you…
SBL annual meeting mobile apps
The SBL annual meeting mobile apps are available for both Android and iOS. In each case, after the app installed, I opened it and started looking around for a minute or so before the app pulled in the current conference program version.
Greenspoon, review of Tov, Text-critical use of the Septuagint
Leonard Greenspoon has a helpful review of the third edition of Emanuel Tov’s Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (Eisenbrauns, 2015). Particularly useful are Greenspoon’s observations about changes in this edition over against the previous one.
SBL and IVP Academic
In November 2016, InterVarsity Press has posted an interesting clarification to its situation in relation to the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings. According to the post, InterVarsity Press Publisher Jeff Crosby has confirmed that the Society of Biblical Literature’s Council, at its next meeting on October 29-30, is taking up the question of IVP…