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The annual general meeting of the whole Society for Biblical Literature (and for ASOR, ETS, and the Biblical Archaeology Society, not to mention the IBR which is the Institute for Biblical Research) was held last week through this Tuesday with the usual screaming hordes of people attending (usually 5,000 or more).  My time involved giving…

‘IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM’: SACRED TEXTS IN AN ORAL CULTURE                                       BenWitherington, III                                     AmosProfessor of NT for Doctoral Studies                                     AsburyTheological Seminary               Ithas become by now a commonplace to point out that Paul and the other earliestChristians lived in what was largely an oral culture, by which is meant notmerely that most…

  There is an article just posted on MSN about a pastor in Neptune New Jersey who has discovered in marital counseling sessions that Facebook is one of the main sources igniting infidelity and the pursuit of old flames, and so he is banning his congregation from using it, or trying to do so.  He’s…

TOP TWENTY CITIES IN AMERICA (minimum criteria— must be a city of at least 300,000 people)                 As most of you know,  I have lectured all over the place and visited dozens and dozens of cities smallish and largish, and what follows here is my personal favorite cities, so this list is subjective of course. …
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