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It’s that time in the academic year when professors emerge from marking papers and exams looking like they’ve been released from prison. It’s also that time when high-strung undergraduates and seminary students suddenly seem to float off the ground as the burden of classwork and final exam prep slides off their aching shoulders. But it’s also that time of the year when students of the Bible ask themselves, “What now?” [Read more…]
Words by Justin Allison, Photos by Tavis Bohlinger*
On June 18th and 19th, students, staff, and local attendees gathered in Durham for an international conference entitled “Closing the Gap: Best Practices for Integrating Historical and Theological Exegesis.” The aim was to host a conversation on the practice of theological interpretation, as opposed to the more abundant theoretical reflections upon that task. [Read more…]
Persistence. Dealing with failure and rejection are inherent parts of the academic game, be it in journal submissions, book proposals, conference papers, job applications, grant applications, fellowships, awards, or promotion. [Read more…]
Photos by Tavis Bohlinger
Over the past week, theLAB has been granting unprecedented access to one of the best academic symposiums for biblical studies and theology in the UK, the St Andrews Symposium on Atonement. Today we cover the third and final day of the event (see also the recap, Day One and Day Two), which featured three plenary addresses back-to-back with no intervening parallel session. [Read more…]
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This is short notice, but if you can make it out to Jerusalem in less than two weeks’ time, you’ll enjoy the privilege of attending BHLaP 2018 (that acronym stands for Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology).* The event, convened by Edit Doron and Robert Holmstedt, will feature 18 scholars from around Israel, and a half dozen from Canada. [Read more…]
Photos by Tavis Bohlinger
Day Two of the St Andrews Atonement Symposium included plenary addresses by David Moffitt (University of St Andrews), David Wright (Brandeis University), and Martha Himmelfarb (Princeton University). Attendees were treated to a delicious lunch—including salmon cakes—but the most anticipated event, as in previous years, was the Symposium Dinner hosted by St. Andrews Brewing Co. What good would a conference on the atonement be without handcrafted local brews, Aberdeen beef burgers, and single malt bonne bouche? [Read more…]
Photos by Tavis Bohlinger
Yesterday we published a recap of the St Andrews Atonement Symposium 2018 written by Justin Duff, one of the three outstanding organizers of the event. Today and the rest of this week theLAB will publish an extended photo essay of the Symposium, as a means to enable our readers to participate (virtually) in what has become one of the highlights of the conference season every other year.
Words by Justin Duff, University of St Andrews; Photos by Tavis Bohlinger*
Last week, my co-organizers and I had the pleasure of hosting the 2018 St Andrews Symposium for Biblical and Early Christian Studies. The theme and title of this year’s symposium was Atonement: Sin, Sacrifice, and Salvation in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. Beginning in 2011, the symposium was launched as a small conference designed to attract local PhD Divinity students and professors to a range of plenary talks from the St Andrews faculty. In the seven years since, the symposium has become a larger gathering for biblical scholars within and without the UK. St Andrews has hosted five more symposiums since 2011, with close to 100 attendees arriving last week. It has become a truly international gathering of PhD students and professors from Europe, Asia, North America, and the UK. [Read more…]
The following is the official statement of Logos Bible Software concerning the very unfortunate news that BibleWorks is closing shop. [Read more…]
“Sympathy, curiosity, industry, creativity, intentionality, honesty, and responsibility.” [Read more…]