Skip navigation

Category Archives: sbl

Song of Songs at SBL

I’ve finally found a chance to go through the programme for SBL and I’m encouraged to see that there are a number of papers on the Song:
Saturday, 9.00-11.30 am: F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, The Ekphrastic Image in Song 5:9-16
Saturday, 1.00-3.30 pm: Me, Poetic Structure of Song 7:12-14
Saturday, 4.00-7.00 pm: Al Wolters, Ann Francis (1738-1800) on the [...]

Good news, I think

I am in Scotland and there is a rainbow. This is a good thing since it reminds me that God’s love is faithful and sure.
This morning I had an email to say that my paper proposal for this year’s SBL conference in November has been accepted. I was very excited to hear this. [...]

Not in San Diego

A little while ago I blogged about why I’m not going to SBL this year.   And all of those reasons are still valid – especially the lack of time.
But right now, I’m thinking it would be nice to be somewhere sunny.  And to have spent yesterday at the zoo with Karyn.  And to be meeting [...]

Why I’m not going to SBL

Apart from the time, the money and the travel, that is.
Last year I remember feeling overwhelmed and not a little sickened by the sheer number of people making their comfortable living off the back of God’s word. Around 5000 conference delegates were supplemented by the many hundreds of vendors, publishers, agents and so on. [...]