The Biblia Hebraica Blog

I just returned from the combined annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion. Here are...

A week from tomorrow you will be able to find me in the exhibitor's hall at the SBL/AAR annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. According...

As I sit here in WI reading the many blog, Facebook, and Twitter updates from the 2010 Great Bible Scholar Gathering in Atlanta (also known ...

I've spent quite a bit of time over the past year with Seth Sander's insightful book, The Invention of Hebrew . (See earlier post h...

Anyone interested in the ongoing tension between faith and reason in what passes for biblical studies today will want to read Ron Hendel’s p...

Last weekend at the Upper Midwest Regional SBL meeting I heard a Hebrew Bible paper on Wisdom Theology in the Creation Psalms. At several po...

I had the privilege to sit in on some of the papers at the 2009 NAPH sessions on Diachrony & Biblical Hebrew. It's a fascinating to...

Thanks to James McGrath , I became aware of this recent post by Dan Wallace and the ensuing discussion (363 comments and rising). I found m...

This was a great weekend. I tested some of my own SBL advice and got to witness how uncannily accurate my "hierarchy" could be. ...

No, not the "Holidays" . . . it's SBL time! I finally arrived at 12:45 am. The plus side of being delayed in Dallas for an hou...

Offering advice and survival tips about SBL has been a popular topic lately , so I thought I’d add my 2 cents worth. As a grad student wh...

After some further consideration and a helpful comment from Mark Goodacre on my previous post , I've decided to embrace affiliation an...

At least that seems to be where Jim West is taking the discussion of the SBL affiliation with bibliobloggers. Doug and the rest of you...

Apparently, there's now some sort of "official" affiliation between "bibliobloggers" and the Society of Biblical Li...

James McGrath has reported on his exciting weekend at the Midwest SBL Meeting in Illinois. I would've liked to catch the session on te...

I learned this afternoon that my paper on "Creation Traditions in Isaiah 40-66" was accepted for presentation at the Upper Midwes...

Back at SBL on 11/22, I was sitting in the Ugaritic Studies & Northwest Semitic Epigraphy Section from 9:00-11:30 am. The third presente...

I intend to work through the Kuttamuwa inscription eventually, but in the meantime, John Hobbins at Ancient Hebrew Poetry  has beat me to it...

In honor of Thanksgiving Day, I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts from an SBL session last week on the theme of commensality. ...

Jim Getz has summarized Kevin Wilson's paper from this morning at SBL: In the Pentateuch section, Kevin A. Wilson (Wartburg College) pr...