Biblical Studies Carnival XXXII Part Three (Done)

Posts on Specific Texts

The number of really excellent posts by biblical bloggers on specific texts continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Here is a representative sample from last month. My apologies to everyone who posted on other texts, but whose posts are not listed: there is only so much one person can read and get around to writing up.

Simon Holloway summarizes a lecture by David Clines on Psalm 23 in concise and insightful fashion, with excellent observations of his own. I am often unpersuaded by Clines’ exegesis, but it is always interesting. Here’s hoping that Simon will delve further into the Psalm in a future post.

Bryan Lilly translates Philemon 1 on his fine blog (HT James Gregory – check out his fine blog as well).

Iyov looks at Qohelet 11:1-2. Never landed on Iyov’s place before? Enjoy!

Mike Aubrey looks at Ephesians 4: 17-19. A little bit of linguistics can go a long way.

All Kinds of Abnormally Interesting Stuff

Richard H. Anderson presents Luke the Priest on his excellent blog. As usual, James McGrath was hard at work in the past month with (for example) a biblical studies perspective on the P.Z.Myers affair; a smackdown of fundamentalism; and ancient authors’ practices and procedures. Tony Siew exults in the experience of teaching. Best wishes, Tony!

    Extra-abnormally interesting stuff: C. Jay Crisostomo's post on imbisumma.  The process he describes is instructive of what all of us go through from time to time, not only with Akkadian but with Hebrew also. James Getz posts on "Ugaritic Texts as Ritual Event." He raises some very important questions that relate to Biblical ritual accounts as well. Alan Lenzi posts on his forthcoming Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions paper, “The Uruk List of Kings and Sages and Late Mesopotamian Scholarship.” Great stuff. I think the paper itself could be quite important to several disciplines. Last but not least, Duane Smith is doing a series on Akkadian loanwords in Hebrew.

New Blogs Worthy of Note

Biblia Hebraica by Douglas Magnum

Wisconsin Hebrew  Go Badgers!

Blogs to Watch by Up and Coming Scholars

Ancient Mediterranean Musings by Jason von Ehrenkrook

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXIII is scheduled to appear over at Michael Halcomb’s digs. I can’t wait.

Comments

[Doug Chaplin]

"there is only so much one person can read and get around to writing up"

Are you sure you're only one person? From the amount you do read and get written up, I had begun to think Hobbins was in fact a plural noun for several people called John Hobbin.

Brilliantly doen, mate!

[Iyov]

You are in trouble. You've used a trademarked phrase of Duane Smith

[Mike]

Thank John, great job!

(side note: Did you see that Eisenbraun now has the BHQ for Proverbs?)

[James Gregory]

Great carnival!

One correction: I did not translate Philemon; katagraphais did, and I offered it up for possible inclusion for this month's carnival.

[Kevin P. Edgecomb]

And I thought my carnivals were too much! It'll take a month to read all this, John!!!

Good job!

[Duane]

Iyov, don't worry. I've already extracted a somewhat higher license fee from John than he expected to pay and I believe royalties will be coming in soon.

[JohnFH]

James,

thanks for pointing out the slip. I've now fixed it, with a link to your blog as icing on the cake. Thank you for blogging with intelligence and insight.

[JohnFH]

Thanks, Mike Aubrey,

first of all, for your excellent blogging, secondly, for pointing out that BHQ Proverbs is (almost) available.

[Bryan]

Whoa,

Now this is a surprise! Thanks for the link John!