Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a one-year visiting position in the Religion Department at Wake Forest University for next year. It’s hard to imagine a better situation for next year, as I will be able to commute to Winston Salem to teach a 3/3 load on a Tuesday/Thursday schedule and write [...] Read more »
Well, I’m glad science cleared that up for us. According to a recent TED talk by psychologist Christopher Ryan (and as reported by the Mail Online), monogamy is not biologically natural for human beings, male or female—it’s not genetically hardwired! All this time I thought I got married because I was biologically predisposed to reduce my [...] Read more »
(Cross-posting a roster analysis I did for NoleDigest on 2/9/2013; I figure it’s worth getting a slightly wider audience.) Now that signing day has come and gone, I figured it’d be worth doing a short review of what FSU has returning. I’ll try to update this here and there moving forward. Guys in bold have [...] Read more »
As many of you may know, I moonlight as a sportswriter during the football season, providing analysis to NoleDigest.com, a subsidiary of FoxSports. Last week, our publisher had jury duty when my article would ordinarily be posted, so the following wasn’t posted in its usual manner, instead being pasted directly into the forums. Since that’s [...] Read more »
I’ve been steadily plugging away at the first portion of my dissertation (the one having to do with early Jewish understandings of Israel and Israelite restoration eschatology) this summer, and I’ve found it necessary to spend a good bit of time parsing the distinctions between the key terms Ἰουδαῖος (Jews/Judaeans/Judahites), Israel, and Hebrew in early [...] Read more »