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Female biblical scholars meme
Posted on: September 8, 2009
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There is a tricky meme going round at the moment asking bibliobloggers to list the five most influential female scholars in their field. This is comparatively easy for me, since I am working on one of the books that most naturally draws female interest, so without too much thought I would say:
1. Ellen Davis (her work on the Song has probably influenced me more than any other scholar of either gender)
2. Adele Berlin (for her work on Hebrew poetry)
3. Phyllis Trible (whose ‘God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality’ is still one of the most important works on the Song)
4. Athalaya Brenner (for both editions of the ‘Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs’)
5. Carey Ellen Walsh (for her ‘Exquisite Desire’, exploring the themes of desire and frustration in the Song).
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Among the many things that frequently cause me anything from minor irritation to outright fury on the internet is the misuse of the expression ‘If you think that, you’ve got another think coming’ replacing the second ‘think’ with the meaningless ‘thing.’ What other thing is coming?
Language Log quotes from the OED to determine the original expression:
…the OED explicitly agrees about the direction of development
to have another thing coming [arising from misapprehension of to have another think coming ...]
Sadly, it also gives the statistics of internet usage:
Google has 146,000 hits for “another thing coming”, most of which are not the Judas Priest song, vs. 49,300 for “another think coming”, which I’m pretty sure is the original expression. (Arnold Zwicky observed thing’s internet victory back in June of 2004 — though the totals were much smaller then, 21,400 to 5,830.)
But, with your help, we needn’t let the internet keep winning! Turn the tide! I dare you. If we all make sure we use the correct expression, ‘another think coming’, in a blog post sometime in the next couple of days, and pass this on to your friends, then I bet we can reverse the Google hits in no time at all.
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Posted on: August 18, 2007
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Some time ago, Mandy tagged me in a meme to post “that verse or story of scripture which is important to you, which you find yourself re-visiting time after time”.
Hard to choose just one. There are passages that I naturally turn to for comfort, for encouragement, for inspiration, for clarification. I’m enormously grateful for Romans 9, for example, where so many of the difficult questions are so perfectly answered. Ps 121 has been special to me since before I was a Christian and I still love the sense of complete security and confidence in the Lord that it expresses. I was recently reminded of 1 Tim 4:12 – a verse which was like a motto to me in my late teens and twenties. I wonder if I’m getting a little old for it now, though? Ps 40 is a ’5th week’ psalm – to be read when overwhelmed and discouraged.
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