Danny Boy of Babylon

I’ve spent a lot of time this week thinking about death and my dissertation. (Sometimes I’ve thought I would experience death by dissertation, but I am beginning to believe I might come out of the process alive after all.) Death has been on my mind because, if I lived...

Shirley Franke: ‘Til We Meet Again

When I passed my PhD exams in 2008, I took a much-needed vacation before launching fulltime dissertation work. My travels took me to see some old college friends in Knoxville, Tennessee, and while their presence would have been more than enough balm for a weary soul,...

What Is It, Anyway?

Daniel is a one-of-a-kind book in the Bible. In case this is news to you, let me tell you what’s so unusual about it: (1)  Your translators had to do double duty in Daniel because the original is written in two different languages (Hebrew in chapters 1, 8–12, and...

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