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Women in the Academy Revisited with Dr. Beth Allison Barr and Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg (Podcast)
Read more: Women in the Academy Revisited with Dr. Beth Allison Barr and Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg (Podcast)In this episode we revisit the subject of women in the academy with Dr. Beth Allison Barr and Dr. Lynneth Miller Renberg. Dr. Barr is Professor of History and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Baylor University and the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood (published by Brazos) and Dr. Renberg is Assistant Professor…
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The State of New Testament Studies
Read more: The State of New Testament StudiesThe State of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research Scot McKnight and Nijay K. Gupta, editors. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. 496 pages. With the fall 2020 semester right around the corner, getting up to speed with the immense area of New Testament studies might seem like a daunting task. Thankfully, Scot McKnight…
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German and Theology Summer School
Read more: German and Theology Summer SchoolJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Summer School 2017 I recently returned from three weeks in Mainz, Germany at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz for their International German and Theology Summer School 2017. I heard about the summer school from my colleague who attended the summer school last year in 2016. He had a great experience and recommended the program….
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A Snippet of Wisdom
Read more: A Snippet of WisdomBefore we left for the UK my wife and I joined one of my graduate professors (and dear friend) for dinner with his family at his home. He gave me lots of needed advice about working on my PhD as he himself worked through his at the University of Aberdeen many years ago. One piece…
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How to Write a Research Paper in Five Days
Read more: How to Write a Research Paper in Five DaysSystems are great. You should use them for, like, everything. I just realized this summer that there’s a pretty straightforward system for writing a research paper over five days. Identify a category. I like Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, but I had no idea what to write about it. So I picked it up and read the first twenty…
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The Writing Process
Read more: The Writing ProcessThe writing process for working on a PhD Thesis is pretty frustrating. I have spent the greater part of my first year here in Aberdeen just trying to nail down a system that works for me. I thought I would share this insane/frustrating/possibly helpful system in my blog this week. I originally wrote this post…
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My Research Arsenal
Read more: My Research ArsenalI have been in a research program now for about two months. It has been both a rewarding and overwhelming experience. I imagine that most people who are involved in some sort of enormous research project spend a good amount of their time (often too much) figuring out not the actual problems of their project,…