A review of Modern Genre Theory in JETS has finally raised the authorial elephant in the room!
Evangelicals often struggle with the move between descriptive (this is how people read) and normative (this is how we should read) hermeneutical projects. I tried to be clear, but maybe not clear enough?
So if I remember Westworld correctly... next week James learns that *he himself* was the AI all along?
@patrick.risky.biz and @metlstorm.risky.biz have reported on attacks increasingly involving asking an agent nicely to do what you want. We can now add: asking nicely *with a sprinkling of pseudo-literary nonsense*
The fact it took a theologian to notice this, while industrialised educators and lazy recruiters are already using these lucky dip machines to evaluate the work of humans, is WILD
Extraordinary work here by my favourite (living) German NT scholar @christophheilig.bsky.social LLMs consistently evaluate pseudo-literary garbage as highly persuasive, and yes frontier models are often just as bad. www.christoph-heilig.de/en/post/mani...
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🚨 New preprint: I tested whether the entire GPT-5 model family can be manipulated through pseudo-literary nonsense. 100,000+ API calls across all five releases.
The answer is yes — and the implications go well beyond literary evaluation. 🧵
Oh cool!! That's definitely going to need an episode.
Not nearly enough discussion of what soft synth stack @jameswilson.io is running off his Polybrute behind him
Clement of Alexandria with important teaching on the under-developed theology of MAN BATHS:
"Bathing for pleasure is to be omitted. For unblushing pleasure must be cut out by the roots; and the bath is to be taken by women for cleanliness and health, by men for health alone." (Paed bk 3 ch 9)
Thank you!
Actually Knoppers article was in 1996, but yeah, did the whole discussion just move on?
Anyone know where the vassal treaty / unconditional royal grant hullabaloo over the Davidic covenant is up to? I haven’t seen anything since the 80s
Thinking about the genre of Judges, I went and looked up a form critical commentary on the book of Judges. The answer? "Judges has no genre. Judges is not a book. There is no such thing as Judges and you are wrong to even ask this question. This commentary should not exist."
OK thanks my bad.
"I only wish I could have read this book when I was a graduate student" ☺️ awww...
Just saw this review of Modern Genre Theory in Bulletin for Biblical Research by Daniel Smith which says nice things and (more importantly for the review genre) nicely summarises what the book is and who might use it.
Microsoft forcing Copilot on me (no I don't want you write my sermon for me, that's the part of my job I like!!) pushed me to the free open source LibreOffice.org No regrets. Word compatible and loads everything quicker. Why are we still paying Microsoft to ruin things? (yeah okay Active Directory)
Friend it is not.
This is how it ends: academic hyper-regulation, despite contributing nothing to knowledge or learning or formation of actual students, steadily increases until 2035 when AcAdmin accounts for 100% of the cost of higher education. The System's solution is never not more System.
Shocking if true.
Did a little sermon in City on a Hill's "Ask Anything" series answering the question "how should Christians respond to the 'woke' movement?" open.spotify.com/episode/0A0I...
Not sure about this Doug! Baker is still a family-owned business I think? And Logos is held by private equity. My experience with Zondervan is they are an amazing team with the passion of a family business
a bargain at any price!
Got asked to do a little sermon at my church on whether the Bible and Darwinian Evolution are compatible or contradictory www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlEJ...
Oh man. Thanks for sharing. She was an amazing teacher
Trivia time: three people kill lions in the Hebrew Bible. Who are they?
Transferable skills for cyber no doubt, with all that lateral movement
Gets her gymnastics talents from you?
"This cookbook is terrible". I guess I only have myself to blame for this review of Modern Genre Theory 😆
My nerdy book on Gadamer and why people don't agree on what the Bible means is now in paperback for the bargain basement price of USD $45 / AUD $90. www.routledge.com/Playing-with...
A thoughtful review of Modern Genre Theory from Aaron Downs on his substack. (I'll take "mostly right" any day of the week!) aarondowns.substack.com/p/book-revie...
My 6 year old casually discussing “phonemes” and “split di-graphs” and “open syllables” over breakfast with her brother 🤓😳 The things they learn in the first 6 months of school!