I’ve already thanked Sarah Palin once on this site. In that instance, it was for giving Tina Fey such a wonderful character to play.I’m indebted to her once again, this time for a remark that she made during last Thursday’s vice-presidential debate...
The main subject of tomorrow’s first lecture on the New Testament is going to be the question of how the model of culture as the interplay of dominant, residual, and emergent forms can help us to understand the relationship between the New Testament and the Old,...
Well, it happened: one of the moments to which I always look forward whenever I’m teaching a lecture course.It’s been my practice for quite a while now to play songs before and after each of my lectures that are somehow related to the day’s major...
I spent a lot of time during Monday’s ConWest lecture talking about the “Documentary Hypothesis” formulated by the nineteenth-century German philologist Julius Wellhausen that suggests that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible)...
The Mets’ bullpen blew another one this afternoon, this time against the Braves in Atlanta. Leading 4-2 going into the bottom of the seventh, the bullpen gave up one run in that frame, and four more in the next. Carlos Delgado hit a two-run homer in the top of...
