Matthew A. O’Kelly

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Heavy 😓

Big win for Durham—big loss for Aberdeen

It should be open access. It doesn’t appear to be yet, but if anyone is curious to give it a read and can’t get hold of it, get in touch and I’ll send it through.

Here’s an abstract for any who might be interested:

Publication day!

My article, “Introductory Matters: Tracing the Aims of Proverbs 1:1–7 through the Book’s First Collection,” published in SJT, is now up under FirstView

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

The article is a minor rework of a paper I gave last year at the @abdndivinity.bsky.social PGR Symposium

This sounds really interesting

Um. Right. Carry on then.

The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text This new translation into English seeks to introduce the reader to the character of the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, while emphasising the fundamental differences between it and the Masoretic ...

Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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SO much better. Thanks for sharing

Unfortunately it seems @bsky.app has exploded in popularity but without keeping up with the necessary security checks to make it a safe platform. It isn’t going to last if these sorts of things are just left unchecked like this

Really excited to share that my article, “Forgetting the Covenant of Her God: Ethnicity, Social Memory, and the Covenant in Proverbs 2:17,” is now available online — and it’s open access!

doi.org/10.1163/1568...

Pity Ryan O’Dowd’s commentary in the SGBC series didn’t get a mention

Proofs!

Coming soon (hopefully) to a Scottish Journal of Theology near you.

It isn't actually a paid survey. There was some miscommunication on that front. I went through the whole thing only to be told that that information wasn't supposed to be there and that I won't actually be getting paid. I see they've now updated the page to correct that.

The article is a thorough revision of the paper I gave at Trinity College Bristol in June last year at our PGR Conference. Since then a lot of rethinking, rewriting, more rethinking, and more rewriting has brought it to where it is now—almost a year and a half in the making.

Proofs are in for my forthcoming article in Biblical Interpretation, “Forgetting the Covenant of Her God: Ethnicity, Social Memory, and the Covenant in Proverbs 2:17.” I’m really happy with how this article turned out and really excited to see it out in the world.

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Schniedewind has a discussion of the place of the author in ancient texts and whether that was actually a real concern for the ancient readers of the OT literature. He suggests it really wasn’t, but I think many conservative Evangelicals would answer differently.

Thanks for taking the time to read it and respond! I’m glad to hear there were some things in there that were useful

Thanks! I’d be keen to hear your thoughts

Here’s the abstract for anyone who might be interested:

My article, “Stillness and Salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in Its Context” is now up online—and it’s open access!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I really wanted Threads to be the place. It’s got a really nice look and feel and this place seems oddly exclusive with the whole invite code thing. But it’s clear that it hasn’t worked out that way.

Coming this Friday on all major platforms, in time for the beginning of Advent, my take on one of the old faithfuls, Once in Royal David’s City!

If you’re a Spotify user you can presave it by following this link: show.co/MqE7H67

What’s the Ecclesiastes commentary you’re reviewing?

If it’s within your means I’d recommend doing both. Buying it gives an injection into the artist’s earnings, but they can continue earning from streams.

There’s also nothing quite as frustrating as going to the back to check the note only to find it wasn’t all that useful

Crutch word at the moment: “particular.” Given what I’m working on, this is not without good reason, but now that I’ve noticed it, I’m painfully aware every time my fingers find those letters on the keyboard.