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Category Archives: Research
Quo Vadimus?
The challenges and rewards of “classroom teaching” at the college level… Continue reading
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The Legacy of Benjamin in Judah’s Bible
A lecture is now posted at “Out of Exile”: “The Legacy of Benjamin in Judah’s Bible.” Presented in the Stellenbosch Faculty of Theology OT Seminar, April 23, 2014, this lecture summarizes some of the findings from my doctoral dissertation, “Sit … Continue reading
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When YHWH Becomes an Enemy
Why study Lamentations? (redux) Continue reading
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Stellenbosch Travelogue V
What do you do on the morning of your final exam for 23rd grade? Continue reading
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Stellenbosch Travelogue IV
How to encapsulate the fulfillment of two lifetime (or at least long-time) dreams in a blog post? Continue reading
Paper: “Irregular Warriors”
My paper for the Mid-Atlantic/New England Regional meeting of SBL, “‘Irregular’ Warriors: Stereotypes of Benjaminite Soldiers in the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles,” is now posted.
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Why Ham Is Wrong and Nye Doesn’t Get It
Ham on Nye? Or turkey on rye? Continue reading
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Stellenbosch Travelogue II
What we need is trust and humility–both on the part of the academic to periodically descend from the ivory tower to help enrich the layperson’s life and faith, and on the part of the layperson to make the time and effort to dig deeply into Scripture beyond a five-verse paragraph for a “quiet time.” Continue reading
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Scribal and Print Cultures
"Unlike scribal culture, which is inherently anti-individualist, print culture fosters ideas of personal fame by multiplying the author-as-signature indefinitely, projecting him both in space and in time into print-made immortality." J. M. Coetzee, "Censorship and Polemic"
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