More on McIver and Oral Transmission

As I indicated in a previous post Robert McIver and Marie Carroll have also had an article on their research printed in JBL. The reference to that one is McIver, Robert K. and Marie Carroll. “Experiments to Develop Criteria for Determining the Existence of Written Sources, and Their Potential Implications for the Synoptic Problem.” Journal [...]

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How they got here

As other people note from time to time on their blogs, sometimes people find this blog using the strangest search strings.  My two favourites in the last two days are: “mark worthing dental surgeon” and “traffic noise 15th floor”

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More Reflections on SBL

Things I didn’t like 1.  SBL Auckland is the first conference I’ve been to where meals are not included in the registration. I found the whole business of working out what I was going to eat where rather tedious and I didn’t really end up getting anything much better than I do at catered conferences.  [...]

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Totally Off Topic – for (modern) church historian-types

My daughter is sitting for her NSW Higher School Certificate in a few months and is reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South for one of her English courses. She’s trying to understand the church background to this book set in the UK in the 1800s. She asks: Do you or any of your Biblioblogger type [...]

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SBL Auckland Friday and some reflections on process

Friday morning I heard Robyn Whittaker, an Australian member of my own denomination who is a doctoral candidate from U Chicago and the daughter of a colleague of mine, present Worship that enacts diving justice: reconsidering the role of worship in the Apocalypse of John. An interesting paper, but so far out of my area [...]

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SBL Auckland – Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday was a short day for presentations – the afternoon was left free for excursions or doing whatever else you wanted. I gather that this is not a usual SBL thing, but is what I’m used to at chaplains’ conferences. In the morning, I presented my paper, which seemed to have been well received. Majella [...]

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More SBL – memory and oral transmission

As Tim Bulkeley indicated, quite a number of presenters didn’t arrive. One of the major disappointments for me was that Jon Ma Asgeirsson was unwell and unable to get here from Iceland to present Constructing Memory of No(-)Thing and the Need for Societal Ethos, both because the paper looked interesting and because I wanted to [...]

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SBL Auckland – Day 1 and a bit

I think that at least 200 of the 450 delegates must be using the one wireless internet connection at the Quadrant motel at the moment. My connection is running sooooo slowly!! The welcome powhiri was fascinating, as were the very intricate carvings in the meeting house. You can see something about this at Tim Bulkeley’s [...]

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The things you take for granted

Here I am in Auckland. My watch tells me it’s 10.24 pm and my computer which is still on Australian Eastern Standard time tells me it’s only 8.24. OTOH, having been up since 5 am and awake since 4, my body is fairly keen to believe my watch rather than my computer. : -) Spoke [...]

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En route to SBL Auckland

Here I am, sitting in the departure lounge at Sydney airport, waiting for my flight to Auckland. My gate lounge is next to the staff entrance to the Qantas Lounge, so I am enjoying complementary internet access without being a Qantas Club member. Much amusement a little while ago – a passenger was not arriving [...]

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