SBL Contingent Faculty Survey

In conjunction with the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, the Society of Biblical Literature is conducting a survey about contingent faculty, and the survey has already garnered more than 20,000 responses. To continue making the survey results as complete and informative as possible, this afternoon, SBL has written the membership’s current survey respondents to request help in attracting additional participation from contingent faculty members.

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November 8, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Biblioblog Top 50 (October, 2010)

This post is a bit late, but among the top 50 biblioblogs for October, 2010, the top 10 student biblioblogs are:

StudentOverallAuthor(s)BlogAlexa Score12Joel L. WattsUnsettled Christianity9552128Scott BaileyScotteriology212042312Jeremy ThompsonFree Old Testament Audio Website Blog294803415Jonathan RobinsonXenos300343518Brian LePort, JohnDave Medina, and Robert JimenezNear Emmaus: Christ and Text382933621Mark StevensScripture, Ministry, and the People of God420079722Phillip LongReading Acts431256825S. DemmlerYou Can’t Mean That!503362926Gavin RumneyOtagosh5039271029Bacho BordjadzeReading Isaiah533766

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November 5, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Get Metzger’s Manuscripts of the Greek Bible on Kindle

Among the growing body of scholarly resources available on Kindle ( sans page numbers, unfortunately), is Bruce Metzger’s Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography. Sounds like a good thing to read electronically in bright sunlight to me. :-)

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October 30, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

The SBL Greek New Testament on Logos 3

Along with Logos 4 users, Libronix users may now download and install the SBL Greek New Testament and its apparatus.

HT: Logos.

October 29, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Biblioblog Top 50 (September, 2010)

September’s Biblioblog Top 50 is available. Despite Joel Watt’s slippage to third in the overall rankings, his blog continues to hold the lead among the top ten student biblioblogs:

StudentOverallAuthor(s)BlogAlexa Score13Joel L. WattsThe Church of Jesus Christ12848525Scott BaileyScotteriology173966311Jeremy ThompsonFree Old Testament Audio Website Blog271870416Stephen SmutsBiblical Paths319523517Mark StevensScripture, Ministry, and the People of God333878619Justin AllisonOld Testament and Ecology404624720Jonathan RobinsonXenos426276823Brian LePort, JohnDave Medina, and Robert JimenezNear Emmaus: Christ and Text536573924Phillip LongReading Acts5421871029Gavin RumneyOtagosh620744

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October 1, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Zotero Here, Zotero There, Zotero Everywhere

Earlier today, the Zotero Project announced concrete plans to release a stand-alone, browser-independent version of their open-source, bibliographic management system. Since its inception, Zotero has been tied to Mozilla Firefox as a support for its underlying architecture. Yet, as the members of the Zotero Project recognize, “not all researchers can or want to use” Firefox. In addition to maintaining Zotero’s compatibility with Firefox, this “major new initiative” for a stand-alone version of Zotero will “soon” allow users of “Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer” to use Zotero with whichever of these browsers they choose. This move will extend Zotero’s availability to approximately 98% of internet users.

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September 23, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (September 17, 2010)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

Biblical Theology and Cognate Fields

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September 17, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

New Testament Studies 56.4

The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes:

  • Michael Peppard, “The Eagle and the Dove: Roman Imperial Sonship and the Baptism of Jesus (Mark 1.9–11),” 431–51
  • Eve-Marie Becker, “Die markinischen Summarien—ein literarischer und theologischer Schlüssel zu Mark 1–6,” 452–74
  • Lee A. Johnson and Robert C. Tannehill, “Lilies Do Not Spin: A Challenge to Female Social Norms,” 475–90
  • Friedrich Gustav Lang, “Abraham geschworen – uns gegeben. Syntax und Sinn im Benediktus (Lukas 1.68–79),” 491–512
  • Jane Heath, “‘Some were saying, “He is good”’ (John 7.12b): ‘Good’ Christology in John’s Gospel?,” 513–35
  • David Briones, “Mutual Brokers of Grace: A Study in 2 Corinthians 1.3–11,” 536–56
  • Joshua W. Jipp, “The Son’s Entrance into the Heavenly World: The Soteriological Necessity of the Scriptural Catena in Hebrews 1.5–14,” 557–75
  • Alexander Weiss, “Keine Quästoren in Korinth: Zu Goodrichs (und Theißens) These über das Amt des Erastos (Röm 16.23),” 576–81

September 15, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Lawson, The Expository Genius of John Calvin

Brian LePort notes the availability, as an Amazonian “Deal of the Day,” of a free Kindle edition of Steven Lawson’s Expository Genius of John Calvin (Reformed Trust, 2007).

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September 13, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Zotero 2.0.7–8

Another set of Zotero updates is available that remedies some stability issues and brings us up through 2.0.7 to 2.0.8.

September 11, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (September 10, 2010)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

New Testament and Cognate Fields

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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September 10, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

Journal of Biblical Literature 129.3

The fall issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature includes:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

  • Jonathan Burnside, “Flight of the Fugitives: Rethinking the Relationship between Biblical Law (Exodus 21:12–14) and the Davidic Succession Narrative (1 Kings 1-2),” 418–31
  • Michael Carasik, “Why Did Hannah Ask for ‘Seed of Men’?,” 433–36 Steven L. McKenzie, “Elaborated Evidence for the Priority of 1 Samuel 26,” 437–44
  • Richard Whitekettle, “When More Leads to Less: Overstatement, Incrementum, and the Question in Job 4:17a,” 445–48
  • Brian J. Alderman and Brent A. Strawn, “A Note on Peshitta Job 28:23,” 449–56
  • Shalom E. Holtz, “A Comparative Note on the Demand for Witnesses in Isaiah 43:9,” 457–61
  • Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, “Mattathias and the Jewish Man of Modein,” 463–83
  • Randall D. Chesnutt, " Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2069 and the Compositional History of 1 Enoch," 485–505

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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September 8, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

And I Was Just Getting Used to the 15th Edition

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The 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style is, however, now available. Among other updates, this edition boasts Chicago’s first explicit guidelines for citing Kindle editions and publications (§§14.166; A.38). Although I have yet to be able to examine this new edition first-hand, on a cursory perusal, these guidelines appear mainly to be an additional application of the instructions for citing electronic books in Chicago’s 15th edition (§§17.142–47). More information on this new edition of Chicago is available at Chicago Manual of Style Online.

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September 6, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Zotero 2.0.4–6

This past week, along with several bug fixes, Zotero got some substantive updates to its syncing and word-processor integration features. As usual, the Zotero website has change logs for the main new release, 2.0.4, as well as what are, thus far, the two additional, supplementary ones ( 2.0.5, 2.0.6).

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September 6, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Forthcoming in BBR: “Rewriting Prophets in the Corinthian Correspondence”

The folks at the Bulletin for Biblical Research have very kindly agreed to publish a revised version of my presentation from the November, 2009 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society: “Rewriting Prophets in the Corinthian Correspondence: A Window on Paul’s Hermeneutic.” To provide just a bit fuller picture of the essay’s argument:

In the broadest sense of the phrase, any use of Jewish scripture by a later author(s) could be understood to constitute a form of ‘rewritten Bible’. The phrase ‘rewritten Bible’ has, however, come to have a technical meaning whereby it designates a certain body of ancient, Jewish literature. The precise shape of this body of literature continues to be debated, but even with consensus on this specific point as far away as it is, ‘rewritten Bible’ can contribute valuable information to the study of Paul’s use of scripture. In particular, ‘rewritten Bible’ provides a useful foil for the study of Paul’s citations in 1 Cor 1:31 and 2 Cor 10:17 and the hermeneutical paradigm upon which these citations’ validity implicitly rests. In this case, Paul’s connections with ‘rewritten Bible’ literature especially help suggest the constitutive, hermeneutical role that Jesus played as Paul interpreted scripture for the Corinthian church within the broader context of some of the hermeneutical traditions of his near contemporaries.

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September 6, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

Biblioblog Top 50 (August, 2010)

Jeremy Thompson has August’s Biblioblog Top 50 available. Jim West remains in the top seat this month, despite Jeremy’s temporary coup d’état that had crowned Joel Watts. Still, Joel’s matriculation to United Theological Seminary earns him the top slot on August’s list of the top ten student biblioblogs. The full top-ten list is as follows:

StudentOverallAuthor(s)BlogAlexa Score12Joel L. WattsThe Church of Jesus Christ10893727Stephen SmutsBiblical Paths210494311Mark StevensScripture, Ministry, and the People of God299339415Scott BaileyScotteriology332160518Brian LePort, JohnDave Medina, and Robert JimenezNear Emmaus: Christ and Text373283619Jeremy ThompsonFree Old Testament Audio Website Blog436755722Gavin RumneyOtagosh462138823Bob Hayton, Jason Skipper, Damien Garofalo, Will Dudding, Erik DiVietro, and Phil DearmoreKJV Only Debate465858933Jonathan RobinsonXenos6773451038Rick MansfieldThis Lamp768595

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September 2, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Biblical Studies Carnival (August, 2010)

Jim West has August’s Biblical Studies Carnival available. This month’s carnival has six “rides” from which readers can choose: Old Testament, New Testament, Church History, Systematic Theology, Archaeology/Dead Sea Scrolls, and Uncategorized.

September 1, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Putnam, A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

Fred Putnam’s New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew is now out ( affiliate disclosure). According to the publisher,

This is a Hebrew grammar with a difference, being the first truly discourse-based grammar. Its goal is for students to understand Biblical Hebrew as a language, seeing its forms and conjugations as a coherent linguistic system, appreciating why and how the text means what it says—rather than learning Hebrew as a set of random rules and apparently arbitrary meanings.

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August 31, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

Blog (Revival) Notice: Beginning with Moses

Beginning with Moses has been substantially refreshed, and the site is scheduled to have regular updates begin again on September 1. If you like, you can also follow Beginning with Moses on Twitter and Facebook.

The Biblical Theology Briefings have carried over from the old site, and the site’s principal editor, Mark Owens, invites fresh contributions for this section.

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August 30, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (August 27, 2010)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

New Testament and Cognate Fields

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August 28, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Göttingen May Be Fairly Close After All

A while back, when I finally decided to preorder the Göttingen Septuagint from Logos before the initial, pre-publication special ended, and when I did so, I was quite prepared to wait several years before this resource actually went through and came out of development. Yet, earlier today, I happened to stumble across this on the Logos website: Logos Göttingen Septuagint So, rather than a couple years, the Logos edition of the Göttingen Septuagint is apparently just over a couple months away (!).

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August 27, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

It’s Here, Albeit in Beta

Earlier this morning, Logos Bible Software announced the release of the beta version of Biblia.com. To all visitors, Biblia.com offers access to slightly more than forty resources, including various Bible translations and a few more dated Greek New Testament texts. Free registration at Biblia.com allows users to access still other resources.

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August 27, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Donnerstag Digest (August 26, 2010)

This week in the biblioblogosphere:

August 26, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

National Geographic’s Recent Special on “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls”

For those who may have missed the original special or who might just want to relive it, the National Geographic Channel’s recent documentary on “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls,” hosted by primarily by Robert Cargill, is available here.

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August 26, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

RBL Newsletter (August 21, 2010)

The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Biblical Theology and Cognate Fields

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Fields

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August 23, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Donnerstag Digest (August 19, 2010)

This week in the blogosphere:

  • James McGrath helpfully notes that John Byron, Associate Professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary, is now blogging at The Biblical World.
  • Sadly, Gerald Hawthorne passes away (HT: John Byron).
  • Helen Bond discusses the composition of the Sanhedrin in first-century Palestine.
  • Trevor provides a good summary of a variety of different ways to add records to Zotero.
  • Happy Dissertating suggests priming the writing pump as necessary via 750 Words. Based on what the site provides, it looks like a fully private blog could also be used in much the same way, but particularly for those who would prefer not to need to ensure for themselves that all their privacy settings are correct or who might enjoy some of the other features that 750 Words offers, the site may be worth a look.
  • Pat McCullough begins a bibliography of resources about the application of Social Identity Theory to biblical studies and invites suggestions for additions.

August 20, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Blog Notice: Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation

Formerly of Berit Hadasah, James Tucker is now blogging at Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation with an “expand[ed set of] blogging interests.” For at least a representative list of these interests, see here.

August 20, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Second Temple Literature as a “Cultural Script”

While reading Darrell Bock’s Studying the Historical Jesus in preparation for class this fall, I came across the following, insightful comment:

Every culture has its “cultural script” that is assumed in its communication. These [Second Temple Jewish] sources help us get a reading on the cultural script at work in the time of Jesus. They also help us understand the reaction to Jesus and his ministry. They also deepen our own perception of Jesus’ claims ( 40–41).

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August 18, 2010 · 2 min · J. David Stark

Themelios 35.2

The mid-year issue of Themelios is now available, and it includes:

August 18, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark

Advice for Academic Blogging

Although the post is now comparatively a bit dated, Corey Tomsons still has some very good advice about academic blogging (HT: Kirk Lowery via Facebook).

http://thoughtcapital.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/how-to-write-an-academic-blog/

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August 17, 2010 · 1 min · J. David Stark