Looking up Hebrew Words in the Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) Lexicon Online I regularly recommend StepBible.org as a resource for students who want to do original language Bible searches or who need to look up parsi...

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

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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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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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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...

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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Recommended Reading on Israel, Palestine, and the War on Gaza Two novels shaped my earliest thinking about the formation of the state of Israel. I read James Michener’s The Source (Random House, 1965) ...

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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?

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

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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 ... 😒

Zotero. Hands down.

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

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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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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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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