Like many others, I submitted two paper proposals for the 2012 Annual Meeting in hopes that at least one of them would be accepted. Of the two, one was especially important for this year, as I have been waiting over six years for a call for papers that matched a particular article in progress that [...] Read more »
Seth Sanders: We Need to Account for the Literature of the Little Guys
Seth Sanders has posted an interesting piece that appears to be a teaser for his upcoming SBL presentation on what he calls the scribal “shadow culture”—that is, the literary evidence not from the “big, famous corpora of Mesopotamian and Egyptian scholastic life.” He raises some really interesting points about how these “shadow traditions” may have [...] Read more »
Thoughts on the New Student Policies for the SBL Annual Meeting
SBL student members received an email from SBL Executive Director John Kutsko yesterday notifying them of two new restrictions placed on student members in forthcoming SBL Annual Meetings. The entire letter is pasted below, with my observations following: Dear Student Member: The particular opportunities and challenges facing student members deserve focused attention. The Society of [...] Read more »
On to SBL 2010, Presentation on Monday
I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for Atlanta for SBL 2010. I’ll be presenting in the Synoptic Gospels Section at 4pm on Monday; the title is “Lord LORD! Jesus’ Use of the Divine Name in the Synoptics.” I always enjoy these conferences—more every year, as more of my friends within the field get spread across the [...] Read more »
Sandmel on Cross-Fertilization and the SBL
Thought this quote from Sandmel (from his famous “Parallelomania”) was worth looking at again: Two hundred years ago Christians and Jews and Roman Catholics and Protestants seldom read each other’s books, and almost never met together to exchange views and opinions on academic matters related to religious documents. Even a hundred years ago such cross-fertilization [...] Read more »