Some Updates

I’ve been quite inconsistent in blogging this last month or so. I’m frantically trying to finish writing my dissertation so I can defend in the fall. While bits and pieces of the dissertation have found their way into this blog over the past two years, what I’m working on right now is mostly editorial in nature and hence not really fit for blog consumption. However, I can assure you, o gentle reader, that I will be blogging in earnest again come the end of this month, as I have many pedagogical ideas afoot in regards to technology, ancient texts and experimental models for contextual reading. Yummy.
However, I would be remiss to not mention that Biblical Studies Carnival 44 was posted at Jim West’s blog; and that the Biblioblog Top 50 for July has me at 31, despite having not posted anything of substance for the month.

And perhaps most importantly, if you have not yet heard, Steve Wiggins is now blogging. His blog, Sects and Violence in the Ancient World is wonderful, and I encourage you all to update your blogrolls and RSS feeds with it. With the addition of Steve to the blogosphere, I believe that the sum total of Ugaritic scholars now blogging has increased by 50%.