[Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] [Note to those who left comments on this post: I have fixed the bad link in the earlier post.] Here are my two regional SBL papers (keep in mind that in both I spent part of my...
journal articles
Divine Plurality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
UPDATE: I have revised this paper and it has been published in the scholarly journal, Tyndale Bulletin.] [Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] I'm currently at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA for the Pacific...
Dan McClellan on “What is Deity in Septuagint Deuteronomy?”
Well, finally got around to re-reading Dan's paper from SBL of last year. I had attended the paper and taken notes, but I wanted to run through the paper once again. My thanks to Dan for sending me a copy (and for the heads up from Matt - and congrats to him and his...
Building the Pyramids – It’s Not a Mystery
Well, it's that time of year again. The Ancient Egypt class that I teach at the local university is set to begin on Wednesday. I devote a full week to pyramids. The articles below are part of the readings. Two of these have appeared on this blog before, but the...
Yahweh and Asherah: More Archaeo-Porn for the Masses
[ADDENDUM: March 23, 2011 I just wanted to direct readers to three items I have written, two of which are free. I offer them since the issue below gets into the issue of monotheism in Israel. First, there is a pre-publication version of an article that was published...
Dinosaur Petroglyphs and a Lesson in Intellectual Dishonesty
I was alerted to a new scholarly article today on the issue of so-called dinosaur petroglyphs. Here is the citation (the article is free): Senter and Cole. 2011. "Dinosaur" petroglyphs at Kachina Bridge site, Natural Bridges National Monument, southeastern Utah: not...
An Eschatological Spasm: McFall's Chronology of the Prophetic Weeks of Daniel
Well, it took the women in ministry issue to drive me back to eschatology :-). Just kidding. I was reading through the blog comments tonight and was prompted to see if I could find an alternate source for Leslie McFall's fascinating article on the chronology of the...
Women as Ministers: Update and Some Scattered Thoughts
Previous post on "women in ministry": Responding to John Hobbins on Women as Ministers A couple updated items on the "women's ordination" issue. First, Suzanne McCarthy has sent me a short commentary essay on Romans 16:7. She argues for Iounian being a woman. This is...
Women in Ministry: Is There a Biblical View?
Previous post on "women in ministry": Reexamination of Phoebe as 'Diakonos' and 'Prostatis' I've been asked a couple of times to hit on this topic. It's been two years since I said anything about it on this blog. To be honest, it ranks right down there near prophecy...
Another Bart-Sequitur
Well, Bart Ehrman is at it again. Not content with his all-or-nothing illogic concerning the transmission of the text (and so the concepts) of the New Testament, professor Ehrman is once again coming to a Barnes and Noble near you (and maybe a Fantasy Channel ... er,...
The Limits of Divine Omniscience
That's the focus and/or question in this article (entitled: The Limits of Omniscience). I thought it was an interesting thing to have you all read on the heels of the election and predestination discussion. The last paragraph nicely highlights the issue, but you'll...
Where Was Abraham's Ur?
Let's file this one under "What you know may not be so." What could be more obvious than Abraham coming from the southern Mesopotamian (Sumerian) city of Ur? Plenty. Check out this three-page article I'm having my Ancient Israel students read this quarter (I...
Eschatology Spasm
I wanted to post this before year's end, but things didn't work out. I plan to append this post to the eschatology archived threads. Came across three articles that (again) point out certain aspects of eschatology that all-too-often assumed rather than thoughtfully...
The Plural Elohim of Psalm 82: Gods or Men?
[Note: For other posts on Mike's work on the divine council, click here for the archive.] At last week's annual ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) meeting I read two papers. The first was entitled. "What Is / Are (an) Elohim?" It dealt with why the reality of...
Free PDFs for Some Articles by Mike
I just found out via Liberty University (I'm adjunct for them in their distance program) that I can post links on my blog to free PDF articles that I have written. I presume they have cleared everything with respect rights or they wouldn't be suggesting this to...