A quick trawl of existing submissions for the next Biblical Studies Carnival at this halfway point in the month reveals exactly one genuine submission. Well done, Tommy Wasserman!
The rest include a blocked presumed phishing mail, and several pious postings that might be appropriate for the Christian Carnival, but are nothing to do with academic biblical studies however loosely that phrase might be construed. Sorry but I’m just not advertising 10 iPhone apps for budding evangelists.
Apart from a general encouragement to any and all of you to submit posts – especially those of other bloggers you’ve read and enjoyed – I want to do a specific SBL request.
Could at least some of those of you who are there, please, ever so pretty please, actually write up some of the content of sessions and so on. I don’t think the carnival needs to cover photos of lesser known bloggers in the company of famous professors, nor the breakfast buffet splurge menu. Nor do I want to those envy-curdling book bargain posts.
However, it would be good to have a record of some of the topics, reactions, key engagements, debates etc. I hope those of you who are there will find the time to blog it for the benefit of those who were in different sessions, or just not there.
As always, information about how to make submissions is here. You can also use the address, for this month and this month only, biblestuff AT me DOT com.
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Hi Doug – I know this is special pleading. I ‘finished’ my translation of Job about 4 months ago and am now reviewing it with an adult study group. This is making me reread and analyse various aspects of the work. My most recent one is on the character of the humans in the poem here. I have also organized the 123 other posts on Job into translation and word-studies. I would like some argument from more than dead trees on some of my to me surprising surmises.
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