A challenge for this week: preparing an interactive talk about biblical languages for a teenage and young adult audience. Wish me luck!

P.S. I've got the entries I needed, but if anyone has any influence in local libraries, you know what the public wants.

I wonder whether there is any library in Warsaw that owns a set of New International Dictionary of the New Testament Theology and Exegesis? A quick search of the catalogues online would suggest not.

And they even found time for some chit-chat about AI.

I prefer Bsky to the other place, but alas, I think most of the biblical studies Twitter activity is still happening over there.

Well, it's that time of year again and I can embrace my annual FOMO that I am not at the SBL.

Huh. It seems like there is some life here after all.

I thought it was never actually going to happen.

I would love to be in!

I am presenting my PhD research at the Oxford NT Seminar later this week. Looking forward to feedback and questions! The title of the paper is 'The Practices of Blessing and Cursing in the Letters of Paul,' but it should be the other way around, as I will have much more to say about cursing.

The first complete draft of the third chapter (out of five) finished. Two more to go.

Ideally, I should spend less time here, but we'll see if a social media junkie like me can limit his usage...

I'm back in Oxford. Lord willing, this will be my final term of residency here. Starting in 2024, I hope to begin a ministry position in a small Presbyterian Church in Warsaw, Poland. In other words, I need to make a lot of progress on my thesis in the coming months!

Indeed I am Twitter, one might almost say, Twitter as he should have been.