Haere mai, tena koutou katoa. Welcome one and all to New Zealand for the October 2010 Biblical Studies Carnival. Don't worry, sausages have a strong presence this month as rather presciently suggested by the carnival's rather larger and better lubricated
Deutsche namesake. Thanks go to Jim West for reviving the dormant carnival and coordinating hosts. Thanks to all those bloggers who plugged the carnival on their own blogs, and if you didn't - shame on you. Thanks also to everyone who nominated posts, if you nominated it, it is here somewhere. Special thanks to those very few who nominated other people's posts. If I lovingly sought out your post and chose it for the carnival without asking anything in return, then you are very welcome. If you haven't been mentioned and you think you should be, then you should have nominated yourself and you only have yourself to blame - go and sulk elsewhere. If you find a link that doesn't work let me know in the comments. For any sins of omission or comission or typographee I unreservedly apologise. Otherwise, enjoy!
OT & ANE
John Byron
considers the flood and human wickedness.
Konrad Schmid
opposes Genesis to Moses as stories of Israel's origin.
The very humble Targuman takes
a literary/theological approach to Genesis in contradistinction to the prevailing winds of biblioblogdom.
Darrell Pursiful reflects on
Abraham's era.
Matt Flanagan looks at the
killing of innocents and the story of Abraham and Isaac
Chris Heard
defend Ishmaels reputation against charges of sexual impropriety, sometimes
a laugh is just a laugh
John Anderson's dissertation is going to be published:
Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and YHWH’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle sounds like fun!
Duane's been busy pursuing his abnormal interests trying to see if he can
identify differences in the semantic ranges of the verbal use of the root ktb in various cognate Northwest Semitic languages, as you do. He has also been
translating Akkadian fragments from Egypt not to mention the
Akkadian snake omens.
Israel Finkelstein on the
united monarchy
Claude Marionetti has a penetrating 3 parter on Solomon and social oppression,
1,
2,
3.
Bob MacDonald finally completed
his thorough review of the Oxford Psalms Conference.
Intertestamental
John Byron finds some
useful videos on the period.
Loren Rosson takes us on a
quick spin of fig trees in the literature from OT through Maccabees to the gospels.
NT
SBL and Logos have
produced a Greek New Testament edition.
Darrell Pursiful asked
When Did the New Testament Become the "New Testament"? and also
channelled Dr Seuss whilst translating Matthew 13:44-50.
Richard Fellows has graciously produced
a summary of his fascinating Titus = Timothy hypothesis for those of you too lazy to read the whole thing.
John Byron reflects on
teaching and
translating Romans
James McGrath observes the
interesting convergence of the traditional and the account of Jesus' burial in Mark's gospel.
James was also got inspired to offer a
critique by
Mark Goodacre's post on the orthodox redaction of Mark
Matthew Montonini interviews
Ramsey Michaels about his new commentary on John and
Tim Gombis on Ephesians.
Jim West gives us some
enticing previews of Maurice Casey's new book on the historical Jesus. (
#3 was my fave)
Ken Schenck has been sharing freely (like someone who believes in prevenient grace!) from his forthcoming Paul book, his thoughts on the
day of the Lord and
how to be saved are worth a look.
Larry Hurtado posts
some thoughts on the diversity and inclusivity of the New Testament.
Phil Harland has a podcast on his religions of the Mediterranian blog about
Jesus as a student
Early Church
Mark Goodacre has been thinking about the
talking cross in the Gospel of Peter which reminded Steve Douglas of
a talking cross tradition from another time and place.
Larry Hurtado
argues for the importance of the second century NT manuscripts
Ken Schenk reads
Ignatius on the Sabbath
Scott McKnight starts a series looking
afresh at Constantine.
A
lapsed mythicist wonder what's next and incurs the ire of enraged mythicist commentors! (No wonder
McGrath loves to
bait and
taunt them! If you are trying to boost your traffic, it could be a good subject to get into)
Steve Demler, having recovered from last month's carnival provides us with
an imagined essay evaluating Athanasius' "On the Incarnation" against the assumed normativity of Nyssa's "On Not Three God's" and also
a brief essay comparing and contrasting Athanasius' "On the Incarnation" with/against Origen's"Peri Archon."
Interpretation
Daryll Pursiful
unveils his research on the "Schofield paradox"
Cynthia Nielsen hosts a couple of stonking guest posts on
slavery and
violence.
Bacho Borjadze
on Brevard Childs, Isaiah and exegesis
Brian LePort makes
an empassioned plea for Lukan theology
The new intercultural theology blog
points you to some fabulous resources
Periman raises some questions
about reading other people's mail
Peter Enns
tackles the challenge of being religiously critical, or was it critically religious, in his Bible reading.
James McGrath
shares a massive roundup of posts on creation and inerrancy.
Marc Cortez does a quick round up and commentary on recent discussion of Christian
gender roles.
Daniel J Kirk
expounds his narrative Christology
Richard Walker
compares the temptations of Adam and Christ
Bob McKlusky wonders if 1 John
teaches that Christians cannot sin
Scholarship and Biblioblogging
Peter Lemenche argues that we need Biblical studies to
undermine orthodox Christianity but Hector Avalos disagrees, we need to
undermine Biblical studies to expose orthodox Christianity, or something. I can't help but feel the poor tortured souls just need to spend more time in prayer and Bible study, and home baking.
Tim Bulkely
calls for a revolution in the rules of the academic game and he is
not alone.
And
never in the history
of the
world have
more posts been
written by so
few people
on the
offensiveness of
the word
sausage in academic
discourse. Personally I
am very grateful for
Roland's fine work in upholding
academic freedom. I feel like I just witnessed the Battle of Britain.
And biblioblogdom finally makes it into world (pulp)
literature!
Obituraries
Two Biblical scholars of note left this mortal coil this month
Edward Netzer
Jan Alberto Soggin
Misc
Madeline Flanagan would like to teach
atheists Legal Interpretation 101 but how would they feel about it?
If you fancy another carnival why not check out
Four Stone Hearth, an anthropolgy/archaeology carnival?
Deane Galbraith
examines the mathematics of resurrection.
Tom Verenna
doesn't like surveys
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