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MWSBL 2017
Read more: MWSBL 2017The annual Midwest regional meeting of the SBL was held this past weekend at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. Obviously I just kept thinking: this is where Rudy went! I don’t have much to say because I was “that guy”: showed up for my first presentation, had lunch, did my second presentation, and…
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Excellent Address of the Problems with the Academic Field of Humanities
Read more: Excellent Address of the Problems with the Academic Field of HumanitiesA friend shared this on facebook, and I wanted to share it here (and there). The author and winner of the Truman Capote Award, Kevin Birmingham, discusses the impact of adjunctification on scholarship – in his case in literature, but many of the patterns he notes occur also in biblical and theological studies. Working at…