Showing posts with label methodologies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label methodologies. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

For the Love of Dictionaries

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has published three articles in the past week or so with a focus on dictionaries, particularly the Merria...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

SBL funds new Society for Koranic Studies

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An announcement appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this week about the formation of a new scholarly society to "su...
Monday, December 26, 2011

A "Natural History of the Book": Joshua Calhoun's "The Word Made Flax"

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A few months ago my colleague Katy Scrogin passed along to me an article for the MLA Journal. I've been meaning to comment on it for s...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

An extended interview with Bible translator Robert Alter

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The Jewish Daily Forward has an interview with Robert Alter posted recently. "Alter argues that the KJV is frequently inaccurate, and ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Panel proposal on "Material Scripture" accepted by AAR

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I am happy to report that the panel we have proposed to discuss the growing fields of "Material Scripture" and "Iconic Books...

Sewanee's School of Theology chosen as one of six sites for project exploring the function of the Bible in the worldwide Anglican communion

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[Posted originally on the University of the South alumni webmail, here ] The School of Theology at Sewanee: The University of the South has...
Friday, May 14, 2010

The Magisterium, delivered right to your door

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In the May 7, 2010 issue of Commonweal , Kenneth Woodward offers an extended reflection, "Church of the 'Times': A Dissent,...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

International conference in Denmark: Invention, rewriting, usurpation: Discursive fights over religious traditions in antiquity

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I just found out about this upcoming conference. It is too late to get a paper proposal in to them, but if you are near Denmark, and intere...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

American Academy of Religion proposal for a panel to discuss Material Scripture

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The following is the text of the proposal we turned in this week to the AAR. We are hopeful the committee will pick it up and let us do the...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Iconic Books Blog

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One of the highlights of the recent American Academy of Religion conference I attended was getting introduced to Jim Watts of Syracuse Unive...
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Monday, February 2, 2009

Embedded Scriptures

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"Materialist criticism refuses to privilege [Scripture] in the way that [biblical] criticism has done hitherto; as Raymond Williams arg...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Denis McQuail's typologies of "media bias"

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Denis McQuail, Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction , (London: Sage Publications, 1994) -----., Media Performance: Mass Communication ...