Dec
11
A Finals' Week Reading from Nassim Taleb
As the academic season comes to its groundhog day, I can’t help but pass along this from Nassim Nicholas
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Quotes, Excerpts, and References
Nov
30
What if Revelation was written by John...the Baptist?
The first step to writing a commentary is to question the traditional authorship. I don’t know why; it just
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Nov
15
Steve Jobs: "Nobody knows why they do what they do." (VIDEO)
For those of you leadership junkies and/or tech buffs, there’s a fantastic interview with Steve Jobs that was
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Nov
14
Should We Back Off The Papyri?
Though a series of events I won’t get into here, I was reading Stan Porter’s paper, Why so
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Nov
08
Robert P. George to Students: "You should say what you think." (VIDEO)
Bill Kristol hosts a interesting, long-format interview series (and podcast). Listening to archive episodes, I found this gem where he
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Nov
01
Wallace: There Are 1,838 Differences Between Textus Receptus and the Majority Text
When I introduce New Testament transmission history and textual criticism, it is amazing to me that there will always be
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Oct
25
Go to the...bee!
In Septuagint class, we went over this section in Jobes and Silva that recounts a really interesting addition in the
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Oct
23
All the Manuscripts!
You guys, you guys, you guys, YOU GUYS!
Check this out: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
I get embarrassingly giddy
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Oct
18
Carson Was Right
For Greek this semester, part of our assignment was to read D.A. Carson’s Exegetical Fallacies, a standard work
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Sep
27
Fun Additions from the Dead Sea Scroll
Sitting in on a class exploring the Septuagint (usually abbreviated with the Roman numerals LXX), which is basically exploring the
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