by Elizabeth Struthers MalbonProfessor Emerita of Religion and Culture, Virginia TechAABSChrist Episcopal Church, Blacksburg, Virginia This is liturgical Year B, the year of Mark’s Gospel in the three-year cycle of lectionary readings. But, in churches who follow the Revised Common Lectionary, we have not yet read much of Mark’s Gospel since the church year began […]
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Upcoming AABS meetings
The AABS is holding two meetings in 2021, in June and in November. June Meeting:The Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars invites you to join a virtual meeting on the topic “Teaching in Context” on Saturday, June 12, 2021, at 11:00 AM-12:15PM, EDT (Eastern Daylight Time = GMT-4). Our guest speaker will be Dr. Stephen Lim […]
Annual Meeting 2020
Members: the Annual Meeting of the AABS is coming up November 14 on ZOOM. You must register in order to receive the ZOOM link. I look forward to seeing you there. Meeting virtually this year offers us a chance for more international participation then is ordinarily possible. Registration via the registration tab above. Schedule on […]
Legacy or Lineage?
Rev. Dr. Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest and AABS President Recently, the cartoonist and philosopher of creativity, Austin Kleon, recounted an exchange with a person who asked him what he hoped his legacy would be. Kleon answered that he didn’t think in terms of legacy, but rather in terms of lineage, the whole […]
Annual Meeting 2020 News
The AABS will hold its first virtual meeting over Zoom in 2020 on 14 November. See https://aabs.org/home/ for details of the event (the tab Annual Meeting above).
From Horror to Prevention
Jason M. Silverman, University of Helsinki Recently the field of Hebrew Bible has been rocked by another scandal, following closely on the heels of allegations of theft and smuggling of ancient manuscripts. Yet I was still shocked by the recent revelation that Jan Joosten, the now suspended professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford, was […]
Their Eyes Swell Out With Fatness: Metaphor and Emotion in Psalm 73
Their eyes swell out with fatness;their hearts overflow with follies. Psalm 73:7 (NRSV) Richard Liantonio, University of Manchester Gorged-out eyes, fat bulging between eye and socket, a horrifying gaze, an evil scheme. The picture is stark and perhaps shocking, but a reasonable first impression from the line their eyes swell out with fatness. This expression […]
Take My Unicorns But Leave the Hyssop
by Steven Bishop, PhD, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX Students gaze at me in wide wonder when I tell them that unicorns are in the Bible, at least in certain translations of the Bible. To add to their wonder, I tell them that the 1928 Book of Common Prayer has unicorns in three Psalms […]
New Lent Study Course
The Biblical Association for the Church of Ireland has released another Lenten Bible study course, this year on “Caring for the Garden of the Earth”. It is available for free from here. This is their tenth Lenten course offering.
Exploring the Markan Jesus’ “Sea” Crossings
While Mark’s geographical knowledge has been questioned in 21st-century terms, I am convinced that he expected the audience to understand, in 1st-century terms, the ethnography indicated by the geographical references.