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A 2025 Reading Retrospective Thanks to a winter semester sabbatical, I was on pace to complete more than a book per week in 2025, but non-teaching-related reading to...

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02.01.2026 03:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fully MAGA-fied Christianity Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

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30.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Question All Colleges Should Ask Themselves About AI How far are they willing to go to limit its harms?

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12.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

An AI-Free Zone When my students log-in to their course LMS this semester, they will encounter this warning: This course is an AI-Free Zone : Because I...

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01.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Baby Steps: On Reading through the Bible in Hebrew and Greek I first read through the Torah in Hebrew in 2001 (or thereabouts) thanks to my affiliation with the Bat Qol Institute and its encouragement...

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31.07.2025 21:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education

“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.” - Jennifer Frey www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

19.07.2025 20:27 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

More on AI, Student Learning and Human Flourishing One of the great things about last semester’s sabbatical is that I didn’t have to think about making my assignments harder to outsource to ...

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A semester in Scripture: Briercrest College launches first-ever term abroad “Being uprooted from contexts that are familiar to us often helps prepare us to think about the world differently,” said Dr. Wes Olmstead, Henry Hildebrand Professor of the New Testament at Briercrest...

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27.05.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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Who knew that the best way to type Latin long vowels with macrons on Windows is to install the New Zealand Maori keyboard?

13.05.2025 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On Reading Biblical Hebrew: Advice for Beginners My advice for students with a year of Biblical Hebrew under their belts who want to launch out on their own: (1) Read & listen through the ...

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28.04.2025 22:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Early Judaism Video Lecture: From Alexander to Antiochus IV This video, the fourth in a series of lectures I recorded in the fall of 2020, offers a big picture overview of Greek rule in Judaea from th...

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23.04.2025 03:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!

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On Creativity, ChatGPT, and Doing Your Chores Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I recently attended a virtual presentation by Bart Caylor on “Leveraging AI for Your Marketing and Rec...

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13.04.2025 22:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On Leisure Alan Jacobs : “I think we’re living in the aftermath of a slow-motion cultural and moral apocalypse. I really do. I’m trying to keep some be...

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31.03.2025 22:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Early Judaism Video Lectures Five years ago, the college where I teach responded to the Covid pandemic by radically altering our regular semester schedule . To ensure f...

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Remembering Carl Conrad Members of the B-Greek forum have been posting tributes in memory of Carl Conrad , the forum's long-time co-moderator, who passed away on ...

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01.03.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gary Anderson on Hebrew as the Language of Jesus Reviewing the endnotes to Gary Anderson’s impressive history of sin (!), I came across this gem on New Testament scholars, Modern Hebrew an...

Gary Anderson on Hebrew as the language of Jesus
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14.02.2025 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Whole Canadian Some 40 years ago I announced to an auditorium full of students at the American missionary boarding school I was attending that “I am a who...

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04.02.2025 01:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On Memorizing the (Whole) Bible When I read Ruth in Hebrew I can still hear my first Hebrew teacher, Dennis Magary , declaiming the text. In class, when students would ask ...

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25.01.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Movieclips A Man for All Seasons (1966) - England Needs an Heir Scene (1/10) | Movieclips

A Timely Movie
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20.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Peter Brown and Learning Languages Interviews with and bios of Peter Brown routinely mention his extraordinary facility with languages ancient and modern. For example: Thoma...

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No Latin ... 😒

18.01.2025 03:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Zotero. Hands down.

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Along similar lines, I don't get how feeds / threads work on BlueSky either. Mine is filled with reposts by a single person.

14.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Now, where was I? I submitted grades for my fourth and final fall semester course on December 31, just before year’s end and the start of a six-month sabbatic...

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A 2024 Reading Retrospective I logged 36 completed books in 2024, my highest tally in six years of Reading Retrospectives . Sixteen of them were audiobooks—also a record...

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02.01.2025 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Charlotte Brontë and Gabriel Wyner on Pronunciation and Efficient Language Learning Notice the emphasis on (1) conversation, (2) memorizing texts not just isolated vocabulary, and (3) pronunciation in this passage from Charl...

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07.07.2024 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading the Bible after the Holocaust I consumed a steady diet of (audio)-books about the Holocaust this spring, including Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of t...

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23.06.2024 22:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Study Abroad in Cyprus! | Briercrest Semester-Long Greek Intensive Program

Briercrest blazes a trail with the announcement of its inaugural semester-long Greek intensive program, taking place in Cyprus's rich cultural landscape. The... Study Abroad in Cyprus! | Briercrest Semester-Long Greek Intensive Program

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