Daily Archives: January 22, 2007

Invitation for Fellowships

I just received an invitation to apply for yet another fellowship for advanced graduate students. It sounds worthwhile and all but—NO!!

 

Why, you ask? ‘Cause I don’t make crap in my current day-job—certainly not enough to feed my family of four…and the fellowship would pay exactly HALF of what I’m making now.

 

What are these people smoking?

Procrastination, Pt. 2

H/t Anastasia…

You know the Bible 100%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses – you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Actually, number 40 on the test is wrong… It’s the question about the length of the flood and if asked on the street most people would get it wrong… The Scriptures make a clear distinction between the number of days and nights that it rained and the time it took for the flood waters to subside from the earth. The author of the quiz expects the first but actually asks for the second…

Oy…

Well, I settled done in the cmputer chair to get to work on the syllabus for the class that starts later this week so naturally I had to begin with procastination of the form of email checking. Generally this is unproductive procrastination because normally there’s nothing there except some sitemeter stats and–when I’m really lucky–an online manuscript database that bls has uncovered… This time, however, there were two interesting sets of items.

1. Raspberry Rabbit has a blog now–do check out the great story about consecrations

2. It appears that the Christian Century is teed-off about the blog posts LZ, Lee at Verbum Ipsm/ThinkingReed, and I wrote a little while back. I didn’t find the writer terribly clear in his criticism of me… The only thing he mentions concerning my post is my comment that the separation of the Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith seems awfully Nestorian to me. If I’m reading him right, he seems to think that I am thereby attempting to separate the “Jewish” Jesus from the “Christian” one. I’m trying to figure out how he would think that…perhaps he’s reacting to Dr. Platypus’s construal of what I wrote. The critic follows up with this great line: “Luke Johnson himself would be aghast that his work is being used here to shear Jesus of his Jewishness.” I find this quite amusing…

Oh well–back to the syllabus.