I’m excited to speak on “Pleasure and the Good Life” for the 2nd of the Logos Seminars hosted by the Chesterton House on the Cornell University campus. It’s in an interview format on Monday evening…
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Another Project Finished! Practicing Intertextuality Will Debut at SBL-AAR 2021 San Antonio
This is a quick post with some follow-up posts to come. I just looked over the indices of Practicing Intertextuality. They are done and submitted. The book is off to press. PTL! Practicing Intertextuality…
Craig Keener Gives Moral Transformation a Shout Out on YouTube
It’s not every day that Craig Keener says your book (Moral Transformation) is one of the best scholarly works he has read in 2020 on his YouTube Channel. Well, what he says exactly in the…
A Short Review of Moral Transformation with More to Come
It’s a short review by Étienne Nodet in the latest issue of Review Biblique 128 (2021), 469-70 but a positive one. I’m grateful for it. It’s in French with mostly a summary of the book…
It’s Out! The 3rd Volume of the Connections Commentary on Year B
It took a long time from submission to press for the editors of Connections, Year B: Season After Pentecost (the 3rd set of 3 volumes of Westminster Press’s Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and…
Panel Review of Practicing Intertextuality at SBL 2021 San Antonio
I’m no longer on the steering committee for the Intertextuality in the New Testament section but as a wrap-up of my final duties, I’m co-editing with BJ Oropeza a volume of essays from past papers…
Plenary Session of the AABI Research Group at IBR 2021
I’m excited to announce the confirmed plenary session of the Asian American Biblical Intepretation research group for the annual meeting of the Institute for Biblical Research (#IBRAABI) on Friday November 19, 2021 at AAR-SBL San…
A Year in the Life of an SBL Co-Chair
Recently I stepped down as co-chair of the Intertextuality in the New Testament Section. I had been on the committee for 12 years, six of which were as co-chair. That’s the maximum possible length of…
Short Thread on the PHerc Workshop
Here is a really quick follow up on the PHerc workshop last weekend. Papyrologists are rock stars. It’s amazing how much detailed, meticulous care is taken to recover the text of charred papyri and bring…
PHerc Workshops Starting at 4am!
I’m very much looking forward to this workshop on the PHerc papyri. My next two book projects will involve studying Philodemus of Gadara among other Greco-Roman Epicureans during the late Republic to early imperial period…