Biblical Studies Resources Update

I’ve learned today that Google Pages, the site hosting my Biblical Studies Resources page, is closing down and migrating later this year to ‘Google Sites’.  I’ve finished migrating all my pages and ask you to kindly note the new URL and update your bookmarks accordingly (should you be so inclined).  Thanks.  And the new URL is http://sites.google.com/site/biblicalstudiesresources/

Scot McKnight: Biblioblog Interviewee For August

You can read the interview here. Scot’s an interesting guy to say the least!

Proverbs in Biblia Hebraica Quinta

The next fascicle of BHQ is due out in November.  Proverbs.  North American readers can obtain it from Eisenbrauns, and the details are available here.  The volumes that have already appeared are brilliant- so a new addition to the series is most welcome.

Guns Don’t Kill People, Bullets Fired From Them Do

A man wearing camouflage clothing and carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one.

That’s how a report from the Associated Press commences. I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it: so long as guns are as easily available in America as they presently are, we will continue to see more and more of this sort of senseless, vile, depraved cruelty.

The victims had gathered near a railroad bridge on the Menominee River when the gunman came out of the woods and opened fire about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Sheriff Jim Kanikula. … The dead were identified as Tiffany Pohlson, 17; Anthony Spigarelli, 18; and Bryan Mort, 19. A fourth victim, 20-year-old Daniel Louis Gordon, was wounded.

I for one will be praying for these kids’ families. And that laws in America are changed to make the possession of a gun far more difficult if not impossible. The madness is sickening.

The Un-Parting of the Ways

The Vatican is seriously considering reunification with a group of traditionalist Anglicans in Australia. Ethics Daily reports

A top Vatican official said he is giving “serious attention” to a small group of traditionalist Anglicans who are in talks with Rome about a possible reunification with the Catholic Church. Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told members of the Australia-based Traditional Anglican Communion that their request is under consideration.

The face of things to come? As goes Australia, so goes Anglicanism…

Lest We Forget…

One of the finest Old Testament scholars to put pen to paper was born on th 1st of August in 1890.  And that scholar was Walther Eichrodt.  Something of a rival to Gerhard von Rad, his approach to Old Testament theology in particular drew a lot of fire (and still does) but that work is a model of careful thought.  Lest we forget…

(Sorry for the quality of the photo- it’s from a very old scan from a very old scanner).