The Cline Strikes Back

In response to the report mentioned in the previous post, Eric writes (in comments, and elevated to the status of post itself here since some of you don’t read comments)
Jim —
I agree. Along those lines, I felt obliged to post a reply to that above article, as follows:
Chris — You might want to take a [...]

If You’re Going to Talk About tel Dan, Don’t Label it ‘Ten Dan’

It just makes you look ignorant.  (And I have a screenshot below for the inevitable moment when someone at the Times bothers to proof read their copy.  And hey, the ‘l’ and the ‘n’ aren’t close enough together on the keyboard that it could actually be an accident anyway).

I’m saddened by their lack of attention [...]

Filled With The Spirit: Part Two

Here’s my review of Part Two of John Levison’s ‘Filled With The Spirit‘. Part One is available here.
Part Three will be posted in due course.

More of the Never Ending Quest of the Jesus of Scholarly Reconstruction

Today in Bible and Interpretation.  Maybe it’s just my ingrained bultmannianism with its dash of strauss-ianity that makes me 99% skeptical of all such attempts, but I’m just not convinced that the Quest is worth the effort (though Maurice Casey has come closest so far in persuading me otherwise).
Nonetheless, give LeDonne’s essay a look.
The first [...]

Jack Levison: Response To Part One

I posted my review of part one of Jack Levison’s new book, Filled With the Spirit, over here the other day (and part two should be posted by the beginning of next week).
Jack has been kind enough to send along this response, which I post here in its entirety with his permission:
I hope this is [...]

The ‘Kristallnacht’ Bible

Claude has the interesting tale of the Kristallnacht Bible, which I commend to your attention.  It’s really a very cool story of loss and restitution.

In The Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky

This newly published Festschrift (posthumously published) arrived in the mail today and I’ve glanced through it.  The essays look fascinating and I’ll review it here in due course.

I’m especially keenly interested in the contribution by Lisbeth Fried.

This volume consists of 14 sparkling papers delivered by Assyriologists and biblical specialists at the 2007 Society of Biblical [...]

The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality

I’m grateful to the folk at Eerdmans for sending another unsolicited volume, this time The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in Sectarian and Related Literature at Qumran.

I met Professor Loader years ago at the CBA meeting in Scranton and he’s a delightful and charming man, terribly gifted.  Back then he was working [...]

Forthcoming and Of Interest

Anthropology and the Bible:
Critical Perspectives
Edited by Emanuel Pfoh, (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010)
Emanuel Pfoh, “Introduction: Anthropology and the Bible Revisited”
Method
Emanuel Pfoh, “Anthropology and Biblical Studies: A Critical Manifesto”
David Chalcraft, “Is Sociology also among the Social Sciences? Problematising Social Science Criticism in Biblical Studies”
Anne Katrine Gudme, “Modes of Religion: An Alternative to ‘Popular/Official’ Religion”
Criticism
Niels Peter Lemche, [...]

Fantastic News For Readers of the Hebrew Bible

Deane Galbraith observes
… out this week from Sheffield: The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. Even though volumes 7 and 8 of the unabridged Dictionary of Classical Hebrew are yet to be released, the abridged version can now be ordered. This is the most exciting news in Semitic lexicography for some time -the first Classical Hebrew-English [...]