Humility in the Academy
A couple of gems to encourage you to read the rest of the article: My first minor setback occurred during my freshman year, when the morons on Princeton’s English faculty inexplicably failed to be dazzled by my freshman essay. (“You…
Systematizing the Old Testament Narrative?
From A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament: The medieval church, and in large measure the later Reformation churches, preserved the canon of the Old Testament but largely subsumed its theological voice to categories taken from systematic or dogmatic theology….
Good Read: The World Without Scholars
Michah Gottlieb, assistant professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at NYU, writes a brief, creative and though-provoking fable about a world without the humanities. Excerpt below, click through for the rest. With family income shrinking, and tax revenues dwindling, choices…
First Century Jewish Stories
To be more explicit: first-century Jews, like all other peoples, perceived the world, and events within the world, within a grid of interpretation and expectation. Their particular grid consisted at its heart of their belief that the world was made…


