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I just saw a new book from the Cambridge UP that looks promising. Bruce Louden\’s Homer\’s Odyssey and the Near East looks to be an intriguing look at an ignored possibility.  Previous scholarship tended to believe that Hellas and the ANE never interacted prior to Alexander, but newer archeological discoveries and literary research now indicates thatContinue reading “Hellas and the ANE”

One of the most overlooked tools in a box of a student of biblical history is an outline. Yes, I just said an outline. \”What?!\” You might say, \”Why one earth would an \’outline\’ be such a powerful tool?\” There are a lot of other tools that are far more obvious to most of us:Continue reading “Tools for Students: Outlining”

Delicious Library is an excellent tool for anyone with a large amount of media.  It enables you to easily record, categorize, and share your library.  Whether your media is music, movies, video games, or books, Delicious can handle it.  I first started looking for ways to manage my library when my wife and I first decided onContinue reading “Tools for Readers: Library Management”

It\’s understood that one of the primary scales on which applicants for jobs, tenure—and sometimes even admission into programs!—are based is their publishing record.  Journal articles are a huge part of that scale, but in some schools (especially smaller ones), the \”hows\” and \”whys\” aren\’t emphasized or even explored. It\’s for that reason that IContinue reading “Publishing and Reviewing Journal Articles”

For most of those who read this blog, writing is (and will continue to be) a daily part of life.  We write papers as an undergrad, theses and dissertations as grad, and articles, book reviews, and books as professors and researchers.  Even for those who chose to pursue futures as preachers/ministers/rabbis/etc, they will end upContinue reading “Tools for Students: Word Processors”

An older (Oct 2010) study in the Wall Street Journal discusses the value of education.  Is it quantifiable?  Recently, Texas A&M underwent a fiscal evaluation that attempted to prove just that.  Each of the professors at the school were audited along the lines of how much money they brought to the school (research grants, student numbers,Continue reading “The Value of Education”

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”