Brooke has now posted his own take on the project Open Access Intro to OT so perhaps I’ll have to start using OAIOT ;)
Browsing Posts in Publishing
From AKMA and Mark I learned that Brooke Lester had asked his Facebook friends, “I know the answer before I ask, but: Do we have no good, critical, open-access Intro to Old Testament textbooks?” I have no idea what Brooke said, because this conversation is not on Anuma, and I’m not in the favoured few [...]
They say that “old media” like Newspapers and TV are more reliable, because they employ professional journalists who have high standards to check the truth of what they present, while there are no standards on the web. Errors (often it must be admitted short-lived errors) on Wikipedia are often cited in support of this argument. [...]
Link now working, sorry :( I am still gradually expanding the open book Not Only a Father. I have added a section concerning “The Gender of Yahweh” to chapter five which (as a whole) is about “Theology of God as both Father and Mother“. This growing book is an experiment in publishing as discussion, not [...]
My colleague Dr Tim Meadowcroft and I are teaching a MTheol/DMin course on “Isaiah and Empire” this semester. The more we have prepared for the course the more aware we have become that, despite the fact that most readings of the book of Isaiah see it as set against several (traditionally three) distinctly different Impreial [...]
Yahoo have produced a Styleguide for the web. In the absence of any different requirements from your webmaster, and for most blogs we are our own webmasters, I do not know of another succinct styleguide that aims to cover issues of publishing on the web. There is even a page of very sensible advice about [...]
You’ll see the point of my title if you read John Dyer’s fine and thought provoking post Are Chapter and Verse Numbers Making Us Stupid? John begins from Nicholas Carr’s provocative discussion of hypertext and what links do to our reading: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (at least the leaks [...]
For the article I am writing I am looking closely at various proposals for understanding the structure of the book of Amos. Once again I am struck by the variety of positions scholars can take. The issue of course is the evidence we use to convince each other. We weigh that evidence differently. For example [...]
I am nearing the end of the literature review section of my article on the Structure of Amos. There is nothing like such an exercise to encourage one to examine the nature and worth of scholarly publication. As an undergraduate student, newly converted to a quasi-literary or historical discipline (Biblical Studies) from the rather different [...]
