It’s been a busy past few weeks to which my sporadic blogging bears witness. I’ve been working nearly everyday both at a pizza shop in Chestnut Hill as well as on a project I’m working on for Accordance Bible Software. I’ve also been working on articles for the Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary that is being edited by Peter Enns and Tremper Longman III. When I’m not doing one of those then I’m busying doing wedding stuff, such as doing the calligraphy for all of our invitations (should have just done them in Helvetica Extra Light and been done with it!). Besides all of that I am moving Lizzy up to Princeton this weekend!
So, needless to say, I’ve been busy. I also just got a hold of John Walton’s new book The Lost World of Genesis One, which I am looking forward to reading and I hope to review later this week…so long as I get a few hours to read it. I guess I can stay up a few hours later or get up a bit earlier to squeeze it in this week!
Besides the review of Walton’s book, I’m also going to post a few reflections as I read through Karel van der Toorn’s book Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, finish the final post of the Consistent Errancy series, add a post about my favorite documentary, Helvetica, which I have seen at least 15 times, and put up a post about a friend’s paper that he just presented at the international SBL meeting this past week.
Now it’s back to calligraphy!
7 July 2009 at 5.00 pm
a post about my favorite documentary, Helvetica
Helvetica happens to be a “Play Instantly” movie on Netflix these days, so any of your readers who haven’t seen it yet can easily catch up.
8 July 2009 at 10.10 am
Walton’s is an excellent read. It attempts to do for this generation what Bernard Ramm’s Christian View of Science and Scripture sought to do 50 yrs ago: bring some sanity to the table.
8 July 2009 at 12.48 pm
Perhaps I should mention that Ramm’s work does not restrict itself to Gen 1. Readers may be interested to know that Walton has a more academic work on the way entitled, Genesis One as Ancient Cosmology (according to p 179, n. 3).
10 July 2009 at 12.19 am
Happy Calvin 500, all.
13 July 2009 at 11.53 pm
I’m just waiting for your review of Walton to come up now. I’m a little more than halfway through the book now. I’ve found a few sections I wish he had written a bit differently, but still loving it.