Progress!

At the end of last week, I made the long trek up to Dingwall for the HTC postgraduate conference. This was a small gathering (even more so than usual, for various reasons) but nevertheless a useful and encouraging time. There was one prospective and four current PhD students present which gave lots of [...]

Carrot and stick

If ever I finish this PhD, I rather think I would like this by way of celebration:

If you click through to the website, you can see an enlarged version.
More urgently, my supervisor is going to be in Cambridge in less than two weeks time and I am supposed to have finished the revised version of [...]

Cambridge

Good news today. It looks like I’ll be staying in Cambridge longer term. I’m working a few hours a week in the front office at Tyndale House and working on the PhD in the Tyndale library for the rest of the time, and this present temporary arrangement is moving into something more permanent. [...]

Trying this on for size

At the moment I am working on the section of my thesis which tries to explain what a canonical approach to interpretation actually is. This is a harder question than I first thought. Here’s a summary of my thinking so far:
1. The canon is a cohesive, ordered collection of texts.
2. Choosing to read [...]