Author Archives: Jared W. Saltz

As mentioned in previous posts, I like having a cross- and inter-disciplinary approach to scholarship, academia, and pedagogy.  I think that any discipline can get itself into trouble when only their own crowd dictates and informs what topics they approach and the methods they use to interact/solve/answer them—academic incest, if you will.  To that end,Continue reading “New (Personal) Additions from Around the Blogosphere”

My good friend Joseph Bingham is finishing up his Law degree over at the University of Chicago and I constantly rely on him to find all sorts of news goodies for myself.  Considering his interests, most of them concern policy, politics, and economics, and I must admit that sometimes I have no idea what he\’sContinue reading “A Question of Bias”

As I mentioned before, I\’ve decided to start my own informal study of Akkadian.  In that vein, I decided to look around and see what what resources were available on the internet to help me in my pursuit.  The first stop was ANELanguages.com, which is a great resources for all sorts of ANE Languages (imagineContinue reading “Further Resources for Akkadian”

Since most of my readers are interested in either biblical studies, ancient near eastern studies, or both, most of us have considered going on an archeological dig at some point in their lives. However, if any of you are like me––that is, poor grad students––then this hasn\’t been feasible unless you receive funding from yourContinue reading “Scholarship Opportunities for Archeological Digs”

While on my much-needed one year hiatus from my standard school studies, I knew that I wanted to continue to develop myself.  So, aside from just continuing my Hebrew studies, I\’ve also been assembling a list of resources to study on other ANE history, religion, language, and literature.  I just got in my first book,Continue reading “Introduction to Akkadian”

Well, I\’m now back from my quite long break.  There have quite a number of goings-on since I last posted, first and foremost among them is my finished thesis and course-work for my MA.  Once I get my finished copy back, I\’ll try and find some way of posting it here in pdf form forContinue reading “Return to Productivity”

As anyone who\’s active in the blogosphere, peruses BAR, attended one of the past several ASOR conferences, or watched PBS is aware of, the finds at Khirbet Qeiyafa have caused quite the furor. The discoveries found there, while perhaps not as concrete as some might paint them, certainly appear to be the type of formativeContinue reading “Scholarship and Ego”

As someone who very much looks forward to teaching, I\’m constantly on the look out for useful materials, examples, and methods.  After talking to one of my good friends who\’s a post-doc at KAUST he recommended I look at an \”illustrated guide to a phd.\” And let me say, this is certainly something that I\’llContinue reading “Hubris and Humility: Illustrated Guide to the PhD”

In many ways, the translation of tyche as “fate” represents Thucydides’ own struggle: an attempt to author a history that seeks to base itself on cause/effect relationships while retaining a need to explicate events that defy explanation. The tension when Thucydides explains that Pericles was the most intelligent man of the age, but still diesContinue reading “Thesis: Fate and Intelligence in Thucydides and the Chronicler”

I\’ve long been a fan of the LifeHacker blog.  As a pseud-techie and all-around Applefile, I find their posts very useful in pointing me towards techniques, apps, and approaches that I wouldn\’t have otherwise figured out.  These so-called \”hacks\” are all about saving time, making needlessly difficult things easier, or else giving you a newContinue reading “Hebrew Hacks: Vocabulary”