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A lovely weekend away (although, damn, I forgot how tough it is to get around Providence without a bike...) except now I'm back in the city and I have to go to work and study for Hebrew. Yet I can't get off my couch ( Read more... )

And now, finally, my Christian History paper. As per my previous post, I started looking at the iconoclastic crisis (8th-9th centuries) and how maybe the iconophile side was kind of skewed female. Well. The first book I picked out of my giant pile was like, yeah, the scholarly consensus has been that women were more devoted to the icons, but i ( Read more... )

oh man! so I'm writing my Christian History paper on the crisis around iconography in the 8th/9th centuries, and the 2nd council of Nicaea in 787 which codified the orthodox position on images. And it turns out that while the emperor Leo IV was an iconoclast and maintained the iconoclastic laws of his father, his wife Irene was actually an " ( Read more... )

So. My new testament assignment for tomorrow is a paper about my own theory of interpretation of the new testament. We had to consider some of the theories we've looked at in class, as well as some other questions about the place of christian tradition and such ( Read more... )

I had new testament this morning, in which we talked about how the details of the passion story were mostly created by Mark to reflect the tradition of the Hebrew scriptures. (Very cool, read Psalm 22.) In a recent class, we also talked about how the significance of the "last supper" story is largely cultural - that Jesus' meal with his disciples ( Read more... )

I'm off at bitch-ass-o'clock tomorrow morning for West Virginia. I'm traveling with the Poverty Initiative from Union, along with some Columbia kids and folks from the Media Mobilizing Project out of Philly. It should be pretty amazing -- the title of the course is "Ending Poverty: an Appalachian Immersion Experience ( Read more... )

So I wrote this paper about Job for my Old Testament final paper (well, paper that occurred at the end of the semester, not necessarily a final paper) and I really liked it. And so perhaps, I thought, the interweb might enjoy it also ( Read more... )

yum. a quality day today, overall ( Read more... )

midterms are done! and rocked!

( i kick seminary's ass )