{"id":1185,"date":"2010-09-02T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/09\/the-sbl-kerfuffle--should-christian-scholars-participate.html"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:45:33","slug":"the-sbl-kerfuffle-should-christian-scholars-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/09\/the-sbl-kerfuffle-should-christian-scholars-participate.html","title":{"rendered":"The SBL Kerfuffle&#8212;- Should Christian Scholars Participate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/002_00A.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"002_00A.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/09\/002_00A-thumb-500x333-17661.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Here is an article in Christianity Today about the recent kerfuffle about whether believing scholars should participate in the guild&#8212; the Society of Biblical Literature. This was all prompted by an article by Ron Hendel in BAR earlier this year.&nbsp; You will find my view in the article itself&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/september\/4.16.html<\/p>\n<p>The picture is of two of my close friends in the guild, Richard Hays and Richard Bauckham. We were all attending the Hebrews Conference at St. Andrews University in Scotland a while back. <br \/>BW3<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an article in Christianity Today about the recent kerfuffle about whether believing scholars should participate in the guild&#8212; the Society of Biblical Literature. This was all prompted by an article by Ron Hendel in BAR earlier this year.&nbsp; You will find my view in the article itself&#8230;. http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/september\/4.16.html The picture is of two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The SBL Kerfuffle- Should Christian Scholars Participate? - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/09\/the-sbl-kerfuffle-should-christian-scholars-participate.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The SBL Kerfuffle- Should Christian Scholars Participate? - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is an article in Christianity Today about the recent kerfuffle about whether believing scholars should participate in the guild&#8212; the Society of Biblical Literature. 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