So what do I do all week? Feel dumb. Last Friday I read hermeneutics and felt dumb. Monday I studied Isaiah and felt —-. Yesterday I studied the New Perspective on Paul and —- —-. Today in class, yup. Actually there was a bright moment, when, for about 10 seconds, I thought, hey, I’ve heard of this before!
You can get the ESV Bible on mp3 CD, read by Stephen Johnston, for $9.95 (exp 9/26).
If you have small kids, you might consider teaching them how to survive if they fall in a pool.
Mark has played two seasons of soccer. He played on two different teams. He has never won a game. In about 20 games, their total score is about 4. This season we decided to put him up a level, in hopes that their play would be better (and less frustrating to him). We were excited when this year’s coach told us that they had been good in the past, though last year they only tied for second. So far they have had two games. 8-0. 9-0. Not in our favor. There are certainly more important things in the world, but winning a game would sure be a nice treat for a hard-working player. Or at least scoring a goal.
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I have nearly finished a collection of photographs from the 1960s for a new CD (four years in process). If any of my readers are a professor or a pastor or otherwise famous and would like to receive a free CD in exchange for a “quote” that I can use in promoting the CD, please email me. Obviously if you can’t find anything good to say, I won’t take the CD back. I could put this on the BiblePlaces Blog and get lots of responses, but I’d figure I’d ask here first.
Hi Todd. I wouldn’t mind reviewing a copy of the photos. I’ve found myself scanning a lot of pictures out of Nahman Avigad’s “Discovering Jerusalem”, especially for things in the Jewish Quarter that have been build over since the 60’s. There’s a great picture of the Broad Wall in there.
When you look back, the changes in Israel (especially around Jerusalem) in the past 50 years is amazing. Certainly there are lots of newly discovered things to see. But in the rush to claim ground by building on it and living on it, we’ver certainly lost things in the process.
Todd,
I am not famous, but am a professor and would love to see your pictures. Press on in life and ministry there in TX.
Todd,
Regarding feeling dumb while in a PhD program, welcome to the club. Unless it is an archaeology seminar, it is not uncommon for me to feel the same way. For instance, a couple of years ago I took a class in Hebrew inscriptions. On the first day, while I was working on just learning the ancient Hebrew alphabet, a brand new PhD student starting asking about the finer points of Phoenician grammar! (Umm, what am I doing here again?)
My wife has to remind me periodically that “You go to school to learn,” and that I don’t have to be an expert in what I’m studying … at least, not yet.
Seth
Todd,
Regarding reviewing the CD…I’m not famous but I am a Pastor now in Portland, Oregon and my BibleMap.org site continues to receive a lot of traffic. So if you’d like me to review the CD from either of those perspectives I’d love to put in a good word.
-Tim
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