May the Fourth Be with You
Happy Star Wars Day everyone.
For My Students…
For all my students dealing with the wonkiness of our university’s website, I dedicate the following webcomic from xkcd:
BTW: I swear I’ll get back to regular blogging when this semester is over! See you all on the other side of the semester divide.
September’s Biblioblog Carnival is Up
Scotteriology has the most recent roundup of Bible-related blogging from around the intertubes. The selections of post this month are quite truncated and eclectic, due in large measure to the paucity of submissions sent in. However, this just makes each link all that more precious. Of particular interest to me is Rebecca Lesses’s collection of online resources on Jewish magic.
Update: Here’s the “greater” post of the month’s biblical blogging activity. More links, more posts, more happy goodness.
Sociological Invisibility Cloak
Courtesy of SMBC.
Mid-Atlantic Regional 2012 Call for Papers
It’s that time again! The call for paper is out for the Society of Biblical Literature’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. This year’s meeting will again be held in New Brunswick. Paper proposals are due Monday, December 5th. Full information below:
Biblical Reboot
Of course, this isn’t the earliest reboot. For that you’d need to look at some of the distinctive in different editions of the Gilgamesh epic. Still, this is a lovely way of illustrating some of the “continuity errors” in the larger biblical corpus. I also recommend James McGrath‘s post relating the latest debacle from Lucas to epic storytelling in the ancient world.
Why Oracles are so Opaque
(Courtesy of SMBC)
