tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848139592962306062024-03-05T16:23:16.406-05:00Pseudonymous HieronymusReligion and Theology Reference Division of Hekman Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://theologyreference.blogspot.comHieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-55421272825214731342013-02-08T10:20:00.000-05:002013-02-26T16:16:40.847-05:00World Christian Demographics/World Christian Database Trial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Currrently (until March 25) Hekman Library has a trial subscription to the <a href="http://worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/" target="_blank">World Christian Database</a> (note that access to the database via this link is available from on-campus only).<br />
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Here's a little background: Every year the<i> <a href="http://www.internationalbulletin.org/" target="_blank">International Bulletin of Missionary Research</a></i> issues a brief update of significant global and regional statistics presented in the <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/eg/opac/record/569546?qtype=keyword;query=world%20christian%20encyclopedia;locg=1" target="_blank"><i>World Christian Encyclopedia</i> </a>(ed. David Barrett et al., 2nd ed., Oxford, 2001). Here's a link to the most recent update, <a href="http://www.internationalbulletin.org/system/files/2013-01-032-johnson.pdf" target="_blank">Status of Global Mission, 2013..</a>. (this will take you to a page where you can register for free online access to the journal). The statistical data in the <i>WCE</i> are now regularly updated in the <a href="http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/" target="_blank">WorldChristianDatabase</a> (now available via a fairly expensive subscription through Brill; we don't subscribe at Hekman Library), but it's good to get the yearly summary in the<i> IBMR</i>. The update this year also references the very useful Pew Forum report, <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/christian/global-christianity-worlds-christian-population.aspx" target="_blank">Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population</a>, as well as a number of other demographic studies of religion.<br />
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When one looks through these statistics the question arises as to how the data was gathered (e.g., how does one get reliable statistics about membership trends in the Hussite Church of Slovakia?) The methodology behind statistics such as this is the subject of a forthcoming book on religious demography:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Worlds-Religions-Figures-International/dp/0470674547/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1360336595&sr=8-4&keywords=world%27s+religions+in+figures" target="_blank"><i> The World's Religion in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography</i></a>, by Todd M. Johnson and Brian J. Grim (Wiley Blackwell, June 2013). In the meantime, see the article "<a href="http://www.conradhackett.com/uploads/2/6/7/2/2672974/evaluating_world_christian_database.pdf" target="_blank">Estimating the Religious Composition of All Nations: An Empirical Assessmentof theWorld Christian Database</a>," by Becky Hsu et al., <i>Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion </i>(2008) 47(4):678–693.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-54861587354578246242012-08-08T13:03:00.000-04:002012-08-13T12:21:10.911-04:00Sikhism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhmmKPcPm6bHFTsQ1-vtDQWnsgUL44L4cT1L-6KsLXrjfz48J9a7BTV7pMLlVHDZzRtNZw-MNAEpIMeSs1LISEd579cP32bD09ujthzYAzqVX0Hv5ctg4EdG812FCsaEr43PxvNJpV2w/s1600/sikhs1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhmmKPcPm6bHFTsQ1-vtDQWnsgUL44L4cT1L-6KsLXrjfz48J9a7BTV7pMLlVHDZzRtNZw-MNAEpIMeSs1LISEd579cP32bD09ujthzYAzqVX0Hv5ctg4EdG812FCsaEr43PxvNJpV2w/s1600/sikhs1.jpg" /></a>The<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/us/shooting-reported-at-temple-in-wisconsin.html?smid=pl-share" target="_blank"> tragic shooting in a Sikh temple</a> in Wisconsin on Sunday leaves one overwhelmed by the suffering experienced by the Sikh community. Sikhism is one of the major world religions (estimated 30 million adherents) with approximately 250,000 adherents in the United States. Who are the Sikhs, and what is the Sikh religious tradition? <br />
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One can easily and profitably turn to the Wikipedia article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism" target="_blank">Sikhism</a>, and use that as a gateway to other online resources. Here's a list of academically reputable resources, which might be available online if you have access via an academic library:<br />
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<span class="small" id="SourceCitation"><span class="citation IAC Gale"><span class="citation Generated">Singh, Pashaura. "Sikhism." <i>Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices</i>. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Vol. 1: Religions and Denominations. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 497-519. <a href="https://lib-proxy.calvin.edu/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3437900054&v=2.1&u=lom_calvincoll&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w" target="_blank">Online article</a>. <a href="http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=2587" target="_blank">Paushaura Singh</a> is Professor of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Riverside.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="small" id="SourceCitation"><span class="citation IAC Gale"><span class="citation Generated">Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur. "Sikhism." <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i>. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. Vol. 12. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 8393-8398. <a href="https://lib-proxy.calvin.edu/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3424502856&v=2.1&u=lom_calvincoll&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w" target="_blank">online article</a> (for print edition, Hekman Library <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default_hekman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=909381&t=encyclopedia%20of%20religion&tp=title&d=0&hc=47&rt=title" target="_blank">Theo Ref BL31 .E46 2005</a> ) Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is </span></span></span><span class="small" id="SourceCitation"><span class="citation IAC Gale"><span class="citation Generated">Professor of Religion at Colby College. Listen to her give an <a href="http://soundcloud.com/wbez/a-sikh-tutorial-from-nikky" target="_blank">18 minute audio tutorial on Sikhism's message, practices and identity in America</a> on WBEZ radio.</span></span></span></div>
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Chilana, Rajwant Singh. <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default_hekman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1486873&t=international%20bibliography%20of%20sikh%20studies&tp=title&d=0&hc=2&rt=title" target="_blank"><i>International Bibliography of Sikh Studies</i></a>. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Print copy - Hekman Lib Ref Z3208 .S42 C48 2005. A comprehensive bibliography of over 10,000 items in English, listed under 28 chapters and subheadings. The first chapter, "<a href="https://lib-proxy.calvin.edu/login?url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/p82gr724211673v0/" target="_blank">Printed and Electronic Resources</a>," is an annotated survey of major reference documents and a selected listing of electronic and web-based resources. <br />
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Nesbitt, Eleanor. <i>Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction</i>. Oxford
University Press, USA, 2005. Hekman Library BL2018 .N47 2005. A
well-researched concise introduction with a helpful glossary and
bibliography. From the Oxford Very Short Introductions series. See also
Nesbitt's reflections on the methodological issues and challenges of
writing such an introduction in "<a href="https://lib-proxy.calvin.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rfh&AN=ATLA0001725879&site=ehost-live" target="_blank">Issues in Writing 'Introductions' to 'Sikhism'</a>," <i>Religions of South Asia</i> 1.1 (2007):47-63; doi:10.1558/rosa.v1i1.47 </div>
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Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-70135228124990867562012-07-18T13:08:00.000-04:002012-08-08T09:57:30.448-04:00The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh20RDFJCySC7p05U7io_tkVdVZ7hPwLKsa1G_pa4ESmpTVGIzF-xiaD5BbxaW_TX7BQtcE16spSYtB23AlEzWVZA09PfWycSZewLhwQGGJPxKThO7ow5L5VXOkXwfpKsFM7uWTjzI5S-c/s1600/OESAC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh20RDFJCySC7p05U7io_tkVdVZ7hPwLKsa1G_pa4ESmpTVGIzF-xiaD5BbxaW_TX7BQtcE16spSYtB23AlEzWVZA09PfWycSZewLhwQGGJPxKThO7ow5L5VXOkXwfpKsFM7uWTjzI5S-c/s320/OESAC.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
The <i><a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default_hekman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1570944&t=oxford%20encyclopaedia%20of%20south%20asian%20christianity&tp=title&d=0&hc=1&rt=title" target="_blank">Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity</a> </i>[Hekman Library ThRef BR1143. O94 2012],<i> </i>edited by Roger Hedlund, Jesudas M. Athyal, and Joshua Kalapati
(New Delhi: OUP, 2012) contains approximately 1,100 alphabetically arranged entries.It covers Christianity in India and neighboring South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, as well as Afghanistan, Myanmar and the global South Asian diaspora). Entries cover events, institutions, people, churches, theological issues and concepts and distinctive South
Asian expressions of faith. Entries include cross
references and short bibliographies. The encyclopedia's editorial board is exclusively South Asian, from a variety of ethnic, regional and cultural backgrounds, and the team of over
700 contributors come from a wide variety of denominations and traditions, including
Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Pentecostal. This gives the work a decidedly South Asian perspective. <br />
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I find the work to be useful and easy to use and access. Both volumes (A-K and L-Z) contain identical front matter (introduction, abbreviations) and back matter (contributors, bibliography, index). The classified bibliography on Christianity in South Asia, compiled by Robert Frykenberg, is a helpful addition to the short bibliographies of each individual entry.<br />
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I find little about worship, liturgy, or music in the two volumes. Its treatment of the South Asian Christian diaspora is also rather meager. (Admittedly, one might expect this in an ambitious work such as this with a lot of topics to cover, but the introduction does promise coverage of diaspora matters, and I expected a bit more.)<br />
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This volume does not replace other encyclopedic works which cover South Asian Christianity. For certain topics one can also profitably consult such works as <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default_hekman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=593544&t=Dictionary%20of%20Asian%20Christianity&tp=title&d=0&hc=1&rt=title" target="_blank"><i>A Dictionary of Asian Christianity</i></a> (Eerdmans, 2001) [Hekman Library ThRef BR1065 .D52 2001] and the <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default_hekman/xml/rdetail.xml?r=683127&t=international%20dictionary%20of%20pentecostal%20and%20charismatic&tp=title&d=0&hc=1&rt=title" target="_blank"><i>New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements</i></a> (Zondervan, 2002) [Hekman Library ThRef BR1644 .D53 2002]. Both of these have entries which augment or aresuperior to entries in this new Oxford reference work, sometimes with additional bibliography, sometimes with additional content. For example, the article on "Sikhism" in the DAC is far superior to the corresponding entry in the OESAC, although the OESAC article cross-references three significant biographical articles on Sikh converts to Christianity (not found in the DAC),<br />
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We've not received notice of online availability through Oxford Reference.<br />
<br />Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-25355047297712115912012-07-17T16:29:00.004-04:002012-08-14T12:28:13.761-04:00Hymnary.org<a href="http://hymnary.org/" target="_blank">Hymnary.org</a> is a database index of over 5000 hymnals and includes more than 1.1 million published hymns. It allows you to search or browse hymns by title, tune, meter, key, scripture reference, and more. This is an invaluable site if you are searching for hymns or songs for worship, or if you are researching a particular hymn, or are looking for a specific musical arrangement.<br />
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For example, you can easily find multiple scans of "The Church in the Wildwood" from various hymnals by typing "wildwood" in the "text name" <a href="http://hymnary.org/" target="_blank">search box</a>:<br />
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For some rather quirky offerings of hymnals, search for "poor Robert is crazy", or "naughty little mouse", or "great ugly spider".<br />
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You should also check out the hymnary widget page <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/widgets" target="_blank">http://www.hymnary.org/widgets</a> , with its iPad app, hymnal comparison app, and search app (which allows you to map texts over time by graphing the frequency particular words and phrases appear in hymn full texts across the years. For example, you can see the relative frequency of the words "death", or "heaven", or "hell" over time.<br />
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The site was developed by the <a href="http://www.ccel.org/" target="_blank">Christian Classics Ethereal Library</a> and the <a href="http://worship.calvin.edu/" target="_blank">Calvin Institute of Christian Worship</a>, with funding from <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/node/7398" target="_blank">National Endowment for the Human</a><a href="http://www.hymnary.org/node/7398">ities grant</a>.<br />
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For a thorough, intelligent review of hymnary.org, see David Mayo, "<a href="https://journal.atla.com/ojs/index.php/theolib/article/view/233/551" target="_blank">Web Review: Hymnary.org - A Comprehensive Index of Hymns and Hymnals</a>," <i>Theological Librarianship</i> 5, no. 2 (2012):4-5.<br />
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<br />Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-25110517493391827322011-11-01T09:04:00.005-04:002011-11-01T09:15:59.678-04:00Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) - New Updated Web Site<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhN3NGuL74Yn9ZEbqZnFIzWHSDT2YzlFZ5Am-38mM1HVyDxiI69Fy5qpTH0cSv7I2yRaEMeQSjhj5qqd2Sjr57tG1_icLz-fTw4Bkkuq-AzarMtk_sQjHABQ6jbCYV3gwhD7xeCnWUXSc/s1600/OldBooksSample.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhN3NGuL74Yn9ZEbqZnFIzWHSDT2YzlFZ5Am-38mM1HVyDxiI69Fy5qpTH0cSv7I2yRaEMeQSjhj5qqd2Sjr57tG1_icLz-fTw4Bkkuq-AzarMtk_sQjHABQ6jbCYV3gwhD7xeCnWUXSc/s320/OldBooksSample.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670014988613350690" border="0" /></a><i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Post-Reformation Digital Library</i> (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included. Hosted by the <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/meeter">H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies</a> of <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/">Calvin College</a> and <a href="http://www.calvinseminary.edu/">Calvin Theological Seminary</a>.<br /><div><br />On the second anniversary of its public launch, the Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) has become available in an upgraded form with its own domain (www.prdl.org). This new version of the library is powered by a database format, which allows detailed search queries and integrates findings of source material from a wide variety of digital libraries and digitization projects. After more than a year in development, the new website now covers more than double the number of authors and works as its previous iteration. </div> <div>Check out our link: <a href="http://www.prdl.org/">www.prdl.org</a></div> <div> </div> <div> <div>This new site represents a major upgrade from the previous digital bibliography, and we could not have expanded the coverage to various traditions without your help. Thank you. You can continue to help by circulating this link to your friends, colleagues, and students, as well as by providing us feedback on improving PRDL.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>For more details on the launch, you can see the press release announcing the new database-driven site.</div> <div><br /></div> <div><a href="http://www.prdl.org/news.php?id=5"><span style="color:#0066cc;">http://www.prdl.org/news.php?id=5</span></a></div></div>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-49383647745068094762011-01-25T16:59:00.007-05:002011-01-25T17:33:23.440-05:00Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Online<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE490jN001IYTbY2lEFFcy-GryFxlu9THGsh8mWs_FWlm7zjm0pEDuKLPNiUvGCGGVBkq7RVB_cNrj0ttoqsDdwZ8fjWv0BXijsDRcDDGWXSIgaxFcXIaVXJcSD17VZl43m7SD97-GFHA/s1600/routledge.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE490jN001IYTbY2lEFFcy-GryFxlu9THGsh8mWs_FWlm7zjm0pEDuKLPNiUvGCGGVBkq7RVB_cNrj0ttoqsDdwZ8fjWv0BXijsDRcDDGWXSIgaxFcXIaVXJcSD17VZl43m7SD97-GFHA/s320/routledge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566248293484071378" border="0" /></a>Hekman Library has a print copy of the <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=310179&t=%20routledge%20encyclopedia%20of%20philosophy&tp=title&d=0&hc=3&rt=title">Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a> (1998, 10 vols.) , but we're thinking of purchasing the online edition.<br /><br />To try it out, use this link: <a href="http://www.rep.routledge.com/">http://www.rep.routledge.com</a> from anywhere on Calvin's campus. If you want to try it out from home, send me a note and I'll send you the username and password for our trial ( lschempe@calvin.edu ). We have the trial through February 25, 2011<br /><br />Here's a <a href="http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/442/386.full.pdf">review of the encyclopedia</a> by Robert Kirk from <b>Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy, vol. 111, no. 442, pp. 386-388, April 2002.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And, of course, let us know what you think - is this something you would use, or recommend for student use? How does it compare with the free online <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a>? </span><br /></b>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-92203696109855189862011-01-14T10:39:00.008-05:002011-01-14T14:55:14.909-05:00Electronic Enlightenment OnlineHekman Library currently has a <a href="http://www.e-enlightenment.com/">trial subscription to Electronic Enlightenment</a>, an online archive of correspondence from the early modern period. This can be accessed from Calvin's campus only.<br /><br />Here's a description:<br />With 58,555 letters and documents and 7,113 correspondents as of October 2010, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.<br /><br />Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an “electronic bookshelf” of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world. The EE team has created an ongoing programme of expanding, linking and original scholarly research to give you thousands of newly composed biographical notes; tens of thousands of corrections of minor errors;scores of thousands of expansions of abbreviations and sigles; hundreds of thousands of internal links and cross-references.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-9469050242562078482011-01-12T16:28:00.008-05:002011-01-12T16:56:08.002-05:00Oxford Islamic Studies OnlineWe currently have a trial to Oxford Islamic Studies Online, which contains over 6000 entries from a variety of Oxford publications, including the online edition of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Encyclopedia-Islamic-World-Set/dp/0195305132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294869300&sr=1-1">Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World</a>, ed. John Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2009). Let me know what you think.<br />If you're on Calvin's campus, you can access it <a href="http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/">here</a> .<br /><br />One online work (contained in the Oxford Islamic Studies Online database) which we have already purchased is the <a href="http://www.oxford-islamicart.com/">Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture</a>, ed. Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair (Oxford University Press, 2009). [Here's a <a href="http://ulysses.calvin.edu/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=1506143&t=%20grove%20encyclopedia%20of%20Islamic%20art%20and%20architecture&tp=title&d=0&hc=1&rt=title">link</a> to this encyclopedia in the Hekman Library catalog, which will proxy you in from off-campus.]Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-37290288203248578132010-08-26T16:16:00.003-04:002010-08-26T16:41:09.438-04:00Oxford Bibliographies Online<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDwzMZVX9Kxu8i7P3INCPa8pG60Rr94o_SiLEpG0xxp7Exl4KMPdhGwqiB2o2Bidxd1QbItzGJohkTyCGGeMu_0yc5fdo6OK5yZqfUTxv08-XFWwdJu_Q5RwkfQSAiVEW_2gDOmZU2Mg/s1600/Oxford+Bibliographies+Online.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 429px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyDwzMZVX9Kxu8i7P3INCPa8pG60Rr94o_SiLEpG0xxp7Exl4KMPdhGwqiB2o2Bidxd1QbItzGJohkTyCGGeMu_0yc5fdo6OK5yZqfUTxv08-XFWwdJu_Q5RwkfQSAiVEW_2gDOmZU2Mg/s400/Oxford+Bibliographies+Online.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509817579581826578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hekman Library has a trial to Oxford Bibliographies Online, a well-designed database of annotated bibliographies on a variety of different subjects. Its allows students and other researchers who are beginning research to survey the state of scholarship on a given topic, with brief assessments of important books, articles, and other information resources. There are links to resources through WorldCat and the library's link resolver, allowing researchers to quickly and easily find materials. <br /><br />The trial bibliographies we have are on Atlantic History, Classics,Criminology, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reformation History, and Social Work. Each bibliography has sections on various topics within the discipline; e.g., There's a bibliography on Erasmus within the "Renaissance and Reformation" bibliography. (Note that the "Hekman Library" link resolver is not set up correctly for the trial; this can be corrected if we purchase these; Use the WorldCat link for each work to see if Hekman Library has it .)<br /><br />The following link will work from anywhere on Calvin's Campus:<br /><a href="http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com">http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com</a><br /><br />We'll have this trial until mid-September, so please send me a note if you think these would be a good addition to the library's electronic holdings.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-63709167450923652992010-03-25T14:25:00.002-04:002010-03-25T14:40:18.284-04:00ATLA Historical Monographs Collection Trial<title>EBSCO Publishing/ ATLA Historical Monographs Collection trial information</title><p dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">We (Hekman Library) have a trial (until June 30, 2010) for a digitized version of ATLA Historical Monographs Collection, which contains thousands of monographs, mostly from 1850 until 1923. WE have many of these books in the library already. About 10-15 years ago we purchased a substantial part of this collection in microfiche. I invite you to take a look - the trial is available for those connected through the Calvin College and Seminary IP range. Among the advantages of this database is that the text of each work is fully searchable. </span>
<br /></span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"><b>American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1:</b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
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<br /></span><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=h8h"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=h8</span></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><b><u>ATLA Historical Monographs Collection</u></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">:</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection consists of two Series that contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology. In its entirety, the collection is estimated to contain over 7.5 million pages, representing a core collection for colleges and universities with programs in history, theology, religion, sociology, political science and other disciplines. This collection features over two dozen foreign languages from books published all over the world. </span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us">Two series will be released. The segmentation is outlined below. </span></span></p> <ul dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><ul dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><b>Series 1</b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> consists of titles from the</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><b> 13th Century through the 1893</b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> World Parliament of Religions with the majority of titles from the 19th century. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><b>Series 2</b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> consists of titles published from</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><b> 1894 through 1923</b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">. </span></span></p></ul></ul> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">The bulk of the titles date from 1850 through 1923, a time of great doctrinal, social and organization turmoil and upheaval in American culture. This important collection is a vital resource for scholars seeking to understand religious thought and practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-family:times new roman;"><b>Link to Historical Archives Flyer, Title List, and Additional Information:</b> </span></span><a href="http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=1152"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-family:times new roman;"><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=1152</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-76404313713167234882010-02-03T17:59:00.011-05:002010-02-03T19:19:35.026-05:00R. Crumb on Genesis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-Genesis-Illustrated-R-Crumb/dp/0393061027#reader_0393061027"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasC8jyVNXNnZstn6JXKt90G-k1PihFrARZk-jktTJ4lROO2I2sCEHG9YORTfN2bkETqqR7EDJDXjdqYik55Au8axoMnOKGZ-auOOC1tiE-DXvcZxNmJhLaHsS03LZb1at2hZZxnv9fPQ/s400/crumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434157355041528098" border="0" /></a>The dust jacket of R. Crumb's newest work, an illustrated version of 'The Book of Genesis,' contains this warning: 'ADULT SUPERVISION RECOMMENDED FOR MINORS.' Crumb says that he wanted to prevent people from thinking, Oh, a Bible comic book; I'll give it to my kid!"<br /><br />People my age remember<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfT4UjlDyTz_MP5WcFY8rUe891x7tEmHPiYPFJ73fkzJFyl0kiATxlhZdIbkVjnz0f-vmQKi9YzdKTT2UQPHUIhBnCd_6-D5DUFY2uEQyQem-Glx1vUyC_NqJLptZ2OdZlzWSjW6thzBw/s1600-h/KeepOnTruckin'.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 107px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfT4UjlDyTz_MP5WcFY8rUe891x7tEmHPiYPFJ73fkzJFyl0kiATxlhZdIbkVjnz0f-vmQKi9YzdKTT2UQPHUIhBnCd_6-D5DUFY2uEQyQem-Glx1vUyC_NqJLptZ2OdZlzWSjW6thzBw/s200/KeepOnTruckin'.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434160258399482850" border="0" /></a> R. Crumb from the late 60s and early 70s as part of the underground comix movement, with one of his most memorable drawings the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, sometimes criticized for images that were sexist and racist.<br /><br />Is Crumb's illustrated Genesis simply a perverse anti-religious comic, exploiting the admittedly numerous R-rated scenes in the book of Genesis (think about it - Sarai and Pharaoh, Noah, Lot's daughters, Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Dinah and Shechem, Tamar as a roadside prostitute, etc.)? It looks like much more than that - a serious attempt by a talented graphic artist to make sense of the Genesis narrative. In doing so, Crumb inevitably adds an interpretive layer in his drawings and his heavy reliance on Robert Alter's translation of Genesis. Gary A. Anderson writes about this in in a fine recent review ( "<a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/01/the-bible-rated-r">The Bible, Rated R.</a>," <span style="font-style: italic;">First Things</span>, Feb. 2010, 13-15).<br /><br />In a famous essay from his book <span style="font-style: italic;">Mimesis</span>, Erich Auerbach described the Genesis narrative as "fraught with background" and filled with omissions and mystery in its representation of the reality behind the story. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOrgiSmAnd3QaGAyIPfa-SGBaWz3DjmrSilr4xv8zkPXOqLnUbPbcrqOOwgtG-B-u7SyvnO1KPD-VfC_zkZeaAmR8gNDTz7tdb3Ztzv-E1DlkPqU7wTVI9FAVdAJLi5TL_XYLIZl5YkJw/s1600-h/robert-crumb-genesis.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOrgiSmAnd3QaGAyIPfa-SGBaWz3DjmrSilr4xv8zkPXOqLnUbPbcrqOOwgtG-B-u7SyvnO1KPD-VfC_zkZeaAmR8gNDTz7tdb3Ztzv-E1DlkPqU7wTVI9FAVdAJLi5TL_XYLIZl5YkJw/s400/robert-crumb-genesis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434174239589001074" border="0" /></a>When you retell the story in a graphic novel format, you're forced to fill in a lot of that background - and Crumb does. Take a look at how Crumb portrays the famous "Sacrifice of Isaac" story of Genesis 22, or the story of Dinah in Genesis 34. Crumb's brief commentary at the end of the book reveals that he has adopted a rather quirky interpretation of the Genesis narratives. Behind the portrayal of the strong women of Genesis we can see remnants of the replacement of a matriarchal society by patriarchal dominance. (He gets this from the work of Savina J. Teubal, <span style="font-style: italic;">Sarah the Priestess</span> [Swallow Press, 1984]).<br /><br />But take a look for yourself. You'll find the book in Hekman Library in the Graphic Novel section, at BS1233 .A785 2009.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-84098404146683472762010-01-30T15:40:00.003-05:002010-01-30T15:44:20.481-05:00Ipad vs. the Rosetta Stone<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiui639yRaW9NJNHQkekR9LXR8PmaRfrmT3FaO753kSiYW4PS2RCa8RwmbthqziyDOk-WhHV87eagj78DIaTx_fOrTaKdNyL1aPPQ6wQfu1mIa0TAjNuhVAYqoxOXScuqDlOYknpJXMofU/s1600-h/ipad-vs-stone-600x400.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiui639yRaW9NJNHQkekR9LXR8PmaRfrmT3FaO753kSiYW4PS2RCa8RwmbthqziyDOk-WhHV87eagj78DIaTx_fOrTaKdNyL1aPPQ6wQfu1mIa0TAjNuhVAYqoxOXScuqDlOYknpJXMofU/s400/ipad-vs-stone-600x400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432636485955643506" border="0" /></a>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-10372042698362455612009-06-10T16:52:00.010-04:002010-03-11T11:25:39.299-05:00Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Commentary-New-Testament-Use-Old/dp/0801026938/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248977844&sr=8-1"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZURrt5o-TIWbjwJd5GAwsTJyBOqSpepsapyLrQs5L2wxsrKQ0mfunff2WBveMtpaR7EXU8wWNfvOExveg-skWwNrDcRZ77HqfcbnbfgLnWywHdlELRSEHyxEJVb5jK5hdJYmhh4zKFE/s320/beale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364319299692464370" border="0" /></a><i style="font-weight: bold;">Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament.</i><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Ed. G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Pp. xxvii + 1239.</span><br /><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=a1255055">Hekman Library ThRef 511.3 .C653 2007</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In one volume Beale and Carson and sixteen other New Testament scholars have produced a unique reference tool that will be helpful</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">for pastors, theological students, and biblical scholars. Each contributor (typically one per gospel or epistle) focuses his attention on those places where the NT writer actually cites or alludes to the OT.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In their introduction, Beale and Carson outline six questions each contributor was asked to bear in mind:</span><br /><br /><ol style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>What is the NT context of the citation or allusion?</li><li>What is the OT context from which the citation or allusion is drawn?</li><li>How is the OT source handled in the literature of Second Temple Judaism?</li><li>What textual factors come into play in this use of the OT (e.g., MT, LXX, Targum, etc.)?</li><li>How is the NT writer using or appealing to the OT?</li><li>To what theological use does the NT writer put this OT allusion or citation?</li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">A good number of the contributors use these six questions as an outline in treating clear OT allusions or citations, with more generic discussions of less obvious allusions which do not lend themselves well to such a prescribed format.<span style=""> </span>Each contribution has its own bibliography, with convenient<span style=""> </span>author-date references within the text for those who wish to pursue matters more deeply.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;">This work succeeds in its goal of being a<span style=""> </span>good comprehensive survey of specific<span style=""> </span>instances of the use of<span style=""> </span>the OT in the NT.<span style=""> </span>While the contributors are informed by contemporary debates over the nature of the exegetical methods used by the NT writers and developments in the field of typology, the book does not attempt to address these issues comprehensively.<span style=""> </span>For good, quick summaries of such issues, one might consult the relevant articles and bibliography in the recently published<a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=a950404"> </a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Theological-Interpretation-Bible-Vanhoozer/dp/0801026946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268324675&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible</span></a>, ed. Kevin J. VanHoozer (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005) :</p> <ul style="font-family: times new roman;"><li>“Relationship between the Testaments,” by R. T. France, pp. 666-672</li><li>“Intertextuality,” by Paul E. Koptak, pp. 332-334</li><li>“Jewish Exegesis,” by<span style=""> </span>Craig A. Evans, pp. 380-384</li><li>“Typology,” by Daniel Treier, pp. 823-827</li></ul>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-37551734419553941862009-03-02T14:40:00.016-05:002009-03-18T16:28:13.210-04:00Religion Past and Present = RGG4 (1)Probably the preeminent theological dictionary published in the twentieth century is the German-language <span style="font-style: italic;">Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart</span>. From 1908-2007 it went through four editions: <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o01089058"><span style="font-style: italic;">RGG1</span></a> (1908-1913), <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o01089009"><span style="font-style: italic;">RGG2</span></a> (1927-1932), <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o00782772"><span style="font-style: italic;">RGG3</span></a> (1957-1962), and now the newly completed 4th edition, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o40533019">Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart</a> (1998-2005).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4D8kgNjK1N2Gate_c-VmflmvhSnMSfWwdeKaRAyNYphE1nABpzoHBadoV771yOd0yPAc9T2iDhwKeuERYYSB3QqzIYlsUMHFAsihHLEJqzL9c_4Ahruz6pEnmp1LYZCc3wHfUAWbZC-Q/s1600-h/rgg4.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 64px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4D8kgNjK1N2Gate_c-VmflmvhSnMSfWwdeKaRAyNYphE1nABpzoHBadoV771yOd0yPAc9T2iDhwKeuERYYSB3QqzIYlsUMHFAsihHLEJqzL9c_4Ahruz6pEnmp1LYZCc3wHfUAWbZC-Q/s320/rgg4.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308708614141772770" border="0" /></a>This 4th edition is now being published in English translation by Brill as <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=a919383"> Religion Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion</a>, ed. Hans Dieter Betz (2007-). At Hekman Library we've received the first five volumes (A-Haz) so far, with seven more to come. These four editions, taken together, contain a chronicle of changes in theological thought over the course of the past century.<br /><br />RGG1 was initially conceived in 1900 as a cross-disciplinary work which would incorporate the research of the new "history of religions school" and other liberal theological movements, as well as speak to the current situation of the church (hence the "gegenwart" (present) in its title. This "present" orientation was to be a corrective to the more academically oriented <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o03974188"><span style="font-style: italic;">Realenzyclopaedie fuer protestantische Theologie und Kirche</span></a> (3rd ed., 1896-1913), which formed the basis for the <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o00766061">New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge</a> (1908-1912) [<a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.html">full-text online</a>]. <br /><br />RGG2 (1927-1932) was a completely new work, covering a cross-section of German theological thought and reflecting the rise of neo-orthodoxy. Selected articles from it have been translated and published in Jaroslav Pelikan, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=o00073579">Twentieth-Century Theology in the Making</a> (3 vols., 1969-71).<br /><br />RGG3 (1957-1962) had a more international character, with some contributors from throughout the world, but retained its fundamentally German Protestant orientation and its many articles of interest to German readers. The "present" focus continued (with articles on the ecumenical movement, the New Deal), and the Fraktur script of the first two editions was replaced by roman type.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvt3_ADEGtJvX7OwtNYEdYUWyXQFl_DIUqfOmVkLOukrEyaqIquMDmPzOBqdwCj_RR1yqkYA6niYgHVRL1KmetHRU-TH9eSI5FTn4kpZjNB4ikRsB0Me4d341ULmhOtTG5OufK5-uHSo/s1600-h/rpp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvt3_ADEGtJvX7OwtNYEdYUWyXQFl_DIUqfOmVkLOukrEyaqIquMDmPzOBqdwCj_RR1yqkYA6niYgHVRL1KmetHRU-TH9eSI5FTn4kpZjNB4ikRsB0Me4d341ULmhOtTG5OufK5-uHSo/s320/rpp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308708880389929154" border="0" /></a>RGG4 is a fundamentally new work. One notes that its title is now <span style="font-style: italic;">Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart</span>, dropping the definite article "<span style="font-style: italic;">Die</span>", perhaps indicating a desire to conceive "religion" more generically, with more emphasis on world religions. In my next post I'll look at RGG4 and its English translation more closely.<br /><br />For a good review of the history of RGG in its various editions, see John Fitzgerald, et al., "<span style="font-style: italic;">Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart</span>: The Past and Present of a German Theological Dictionary," <span style="font-style: italic;">Religious Studies Review </span>27.4 (Oct 2001):319-329 [ DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0922.2001.tb00374.x ]Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-10272478896427566152009-02-23T10:13:00.006-05:002009-02-23T11:22:43.673-05:00Flannery O'Connor - New Biography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBsq4jKnlSIeS5aP2b_WER9Mf8X6gSfeYtxE0OyajMvS_1-OCSKIPIVjWL_ZmvSX6zSChjV-WcIjPQ7TAV-QvKefP-F5_aSLwaxasbi813kLaTHzDIYxxPajn1bv-liTDqAtwehGV6QeU/s1600-h/FlannerGooch.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBsq4jKnlSIeS5aP2b_WER9Mf8X6gSfeYtxE0OyajMvS_1-OCSKIPIVjWL_ZmvSX6zSChjV-WcIjPQ7TAV-QvKefP-F5_aSLwaxasbi813kLaTHzDIYxxPajn1bv-liTDqAtwehGV6QeU/s200/FlannerGooch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306013063401648866" border="0" /></a>I've not read Brad Gooch's new book <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=i9780316000666">Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor</a> (Little, Brown & Co., 2009), but the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/books/23masl.html">review by Janet Maslin</a> in the NYTimes today has a great quote from some correspondence between F.O. and her friend Betty Hester: " I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both."<br />Gooch's biography supplements the last O'Connor biography, published in 2002 by Jean W. Cash, <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=a692495&showurl=true">Flannery O'Connor: A Life</a> (University of Tennessee, 2002), and makes use of a significant amount of hitherto unpublished correspondence. For excerpts from the O'Connor-Hester letters (in the Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library), see the 2008 article by Christine McCulloch, <a href="http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/mcculloch/1a.htm">"Glimpsing Andalus</a><a href="http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/mcculloch/1a.htm">ia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters</a>" in the online journal <a href="http://www.southernspaces.org/">Southern Spaces</a> . Here's a sample:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5uOYuqe0mlgSiVaFchn_lNTM0RCOVQ0Z0ELnYBnSigYUpPVAvJDGP8LBcGIPpPoJoJMwiNmlmsn12eAO9ApNgOZPyKkGLgDH0rUWjXFYUotYiwDqTMmnn-OLRQvSAfvX8MZDVOIcsAw/s1600-h/FlannerCorr.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 435px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5uOYuqe0mlgSiVaFchn_lNTM0RCOVQ0Z0ELnYBnSigYUpPVAvJDGP8LBcGIPpPoJoJMwiNmlmsn12eAO9ApNgOZPyKkGLgDH0rUWjXFYUotYiwDqTMmnn-OLRQvSAfvX8MZDVOIcsAw/s320/FlannerCorr.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306028589115605890" border="0" /></a>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-16492359224760456612008-07-06T21:44:00.006-04:002008-07-06T22:30:55.825-04:00Gabriel's Revelation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsk4A6F5u_qnYtfOyUwmg4VNVC8aRWLGdANngzYdw5J9agppOeYFNEXhc8Zv0lFZe5-dcn3lXf4ilZlljkHZBmcDG1Cr6ACgEnL9DtK7EHs7bSZ7EcTnKB5v72tyYByvP4k3dhMCCduI/s1600-h/Tablet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsk4A6F5u_qnYtfOyUwmg4VNVC8aRWLGdANngzYdw5J9agppOeYFNEXhc8Zv0lFZe5-dcn3lXf4ilZlljkHZBmcDG1Cr6ACgEnL9DtK7EHs7bSZ7EcTnKB5v72tyYByvP4k3dhMCCduI/s320/Tablet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220093960333615330" border="0" /></a>Today's New York Times contains an article by Ethan Bronner, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/middleeast/06stone.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin">Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection</a> :<br /><blockquote> "A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days."</blockquote>According to a translation of the tablet by Israel Knohl, the text relates a vision of the archangel Gabriel who speaks of the resurrection of a messiah after three days, a motif previously not attested prior to Jesus.<br />See Knohl's article: Israel Knohl, <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.lib-proxy.calvin.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/525562">"'By Three Days, Live': Messiahs, Resurrection, and Ascent to Heaven in <span style="font-style: italic;">Hazon Gabriel</span>,"</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of Religion</span> 88, no. 2 (April 2008):147-158.<br /><br />Here's a summary of some of the discussion and links to articles, posted by Jim Lauer:<br /><div></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-size:85%;">Hershel Shanks noted that </span><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">the first </span>English publication of the tablet appeared in an article “A New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone?” by Dr. Ada Yardeni in the January/February 2008 BAR. The Hebrew and English texts of the tablet are linked at the BAS website at <a title="http://bib-arch.org/news/dss-in-stone-news.asp CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://bib-arch.org/news/dss-in-stone-news.asp">http://bib-arch.org/news/dss-in-stone-news.asp</a></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;"> . </span></span></span></div> <div><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;"> In addition, as also circulated on Dr. Jack Sasson’s Agade list, </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;">in that article, Dr. Yardeni described the 3-foot-by 1-foot stone inscribed with a lengthy text that she would refer to as a Dead Sea Scroll had it been written on leather. A photo of the stone appears in the issue; for the transcription of the Hebrew text go to<br />< <a title="http://bib-arch.org/news/dssinstone_hebrew.doc CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://bib-arch.org/news/dssinstone_hebrew.doc">http://bib-arch.org/news/dssinstone_hebrew.doc</a> >; for an English translation, go to < <a title="http://bib-arch.org/news/dssinstone_english.doc CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://bib-arch.org/news/dssinstone_english.doc">http://bib-arch.org/news/dssinstone_english.doc</a> >.<br />Yitzhak Sapir noted that an April 4, 2007 Nfc Hebrew-language article about the <em>Cathedra</em> article mentioned by the <em>Times</em> (in which Ada Yardeni and Binyamin Elitzur analyzed the tablet), could be read at <a title="http://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-127652-00.html?tag=11-28-43 CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-127652-00.html?tag=11-28-43">http://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-127652-00.html?tag=11-28-43</a> (or <a title="http://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-127652-00.html CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-127652-00.html">http://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-127652-00.html</a> ). </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" >He also noted that through links in the Nfc article a PDF of the Yardeni/Elitzur <em>Cathedra</em> Hebrew article (no. 123, Nisan 5767, pp. 155-166) could be read at <a title="http://www.nfc.co.il/uploadFiles/138240993022919.pdf CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.nfc.co.il/uploadFiles/138240993022919.pdf">http://www.nfc.co.il/uploadFiles/138240993022919.pdf</a> and a</span></span><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" > drawing and a Hebrew transcription of the tablet could be viewed at <a title="http://www.nfc.co.il/uploadFiles/848324000835419.pdf CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.nfc.co.il/uploadFiles/848324000835419.pdf">http://www.nfc.co.il/uploadFiles/848324000835419.pdf</a> . See </span></span></div> <div><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" ><a title="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/8651 CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/8651">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/8651</a> and<br /><a title="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/18003 CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/18003">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/18003</a></span></span></div> <div><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" > <span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" >As some may remember, I circulated an A</span></span><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" >pril 20, 2007 <em>Ha’aretz</em> article by Prof. Israel Knohl (”In three days, you shall live”) in which he discussed the tablet and his book and his theory, mentioned in the <em>Times</em> article. The article may be read at </span></span></div> <div><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a title="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850657 CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850657">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850657</a></span></span><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" > [English]<br /></span><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" ><a title="http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850111 CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850111">http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=850111</a></span><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;" > [Hebrew] </span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></blockquote>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-49136016754069828602008-07-02T09:01:00.004-04:002008-07-02T09:18:45.414-04:00Henry Chadwick - Historian of Early Christianity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhluEMcTF2XXY-EItW0hKX72vc2DZ_ygTuGQinuBSaK73V11BMEzkC4wxrYmasEndHXB4prgaBBUYRKgJNpNTnWqZ6pvQJ1vz-5EHFrXhHfxwY2B_YTyRKfu_7SweAKpNBgr2XrQ1oVwKQ/s1600-h/HenryChadwick.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 141px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhluEMcTF2XXY-EItW0hKX72vc2DZ_ygTuGQinuBSaK73V11BMEzkC4wxrYmasEndHXB4prgaBBUYRKgJNpNTnWqZ6pvQJ1vz-5EHFrXhHfxwY2B_YTyRKfu_7SweAKpNBgr2XrQ1oVwKQ/s200/HenryChadwick.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218404830620408754" border="0" /></a>Henry Chadwick, a British historian of early Christianity died last month on June 17. See his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/world/europe/22chadwick.html">obituary</a> in the New York Times. The church was (and continues to be) well-served by his work. The quotation attributed to him in the Times obituary is worth noting:<br />“Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.”Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-59986231411856489222008-07-01T13:46:00.004-04:002008-07-01T16:18:28.513-04:00WorldCat Collection Analysis, John Calvin, and ATLA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj18jSqaH3yedHiPabyv2vZyZEB6VVsd5M83-iECaGJ5QsusO16gDI1o2hLbj3ivgbdDIo7ZcxxMKrpJUelF3eRmy5fUlS5hVrU4M4ZkMVKe_wjBQpTesGfWuSzMIsBQ7EG0mUiyRfGgLo/s1600-h/ottowa-congress-center-canal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj18jSqaH3yedHiPabyv2vZyZEB6VVsd5M83-iECaGJ5QsusO16gDI1o2hLbj3ivgbdDIo7ZcxxMKrpJUelF3eRmy5fUlS5hVrU4M4ZkMVKe_wjBQpTesGfWuSzMIsBQ7EG0mUiyRfGgLo/s200/ottowa-congress-center-canal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218139019995432386" border="0" /></a>I'm back from a few days in Ottawa at the ATLA (<a href="http://www.atla.com/">American Theological Library Association</a>) Annual Meeting. Ottawa is a great city, with good public transportation and a tremendous <a href="http://apps104.ottawa.ca/emap/?lang=en&emapver=lite&MAPNAME=ottawa_cycling.mwf">network of bike paths</a> along rivers and canals and throughout the city. I rented a bike and managed to ride about 80 miles during the four days I was there.<br /><br />This has little to do with theological reference, but my presentation (with Terry Robertson from Andrews University) was an introduction to and analysis of WorldCat Collection Analysis, a tool designed to help librarians evaluate library collections. I'm posting a link to my PowerPoint (creatively entitled <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/library/lschempe/ATLAColDev2008.ppt">WorldCat Collection Analysis</a>) for the benefit of those who attended the session and may have dozed off during the presentation.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5Ca-qPh8K2jvbPziFBUeh_BYBWBx7oOcongTFiXgldJ-qCukVM6JFHFWNE-Yoz4lROwZRGcVQlVbcckqBnFySc3J-qgEA82KNP7YDzzrO3Z4ROa9J5-k04r4BpK6ka1kjJrE9sWsroI/s1600-h/calvchoco.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5Ca-qPh8K2jvbPziFBUeh_BYBWBx7oOcongTFiXgldJ-qCukVM6JFHFWNE-Yoz4lROwZRGcVQlVbcckqBnFySc3J-qgEA82KNP7YDzzrO3Z4ROa9J5-k04r4BpK6ka1kjJrE9sWsroI/s200/calvchoco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218140595205769666" border="0" /></a>While we're distributing our PowerPoint Presentations, a couple of years ago my colleague Paul Fields and I gave a presentation at the same conference with the engaging title: <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/library/lschempe/CalvinHistoryp.ppt">Bibliographic Resources for the Study of John Calvin</a>. More interesting presentation, I thought, but not nearly as well-attended as the WorldCat Collection Analysis session this year.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-36985478657287134762008-06-30T12:01:00.001-04:002008-06-30T12:11:49.688-04:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="http://theologyreference.blogspot.com/2007/04/researching-christian-reformed-church_2931.html">Researching Christian Reformed Church History</a> </h3> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcEJb0WBsAPcxBTCLEg7EKPwHrtIeu7E40ry7xUT3Q9aViR79RWPYbHJ8Z2z_E_i91qx8KzWm4UowFZHGykNWhog5VavWJOlvyZU3Uk-wKEilFwEVWTlDthv8p_7A7vr044Sh0vcIg0mE/s1600-h/crcsesqlogo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059252098943764674" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcEJb0WBsAPcxBTCLEg7EKPwHrtIeu7E40ry7xUT3Q9aViR79RWPYbHJ8Z2z_E_i91qx8KzWm4UowFZHGykNWhog5VavWJOlvyZU3Uk-wKEilFwEVWTlDthv8p_7A7vr044Sh0vcIg0mE/s320/crcsesqlogo.gif" border="0" /></a>The year 2007 was the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of the beginnings of the <a href="http://www.crcna.org/">Christian Reformed Church in North America</a> (CRC), the institution that founded and supports <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/">Calvin College</a> and <a href="http://www.calvinseminary.edu/">Calvin Theological Seminary</a>. The denomination chose "Grace through Every Generation" as the theme for celebrating this anniversary. A number of books have been published recently about the history of the CRC; here's a sampling of them:<br /><br /><ul><li><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnRsTn51Gu6TYhHDM_Glz3B6h43Q133HxZCsmHhx3bw8Jivk5eI8L8xSd4PntSGZrt-G9w57mZe_IiskP3HztnJ_FyXJ-cL6_xseY8LOT85aSfd3FpYjgbYt_8_9deOCAKJOWF7qAjYo/s1600-h/hoezee.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059265366097742034" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnRsTn51Gu6TYhHDM_Glz3B6h43Q133HxZCsmHhx3bw8Jivk5eI8L8xSd4PntSGZrt-G9w57mZe_IiskP3HztnJ_FyXJ-cL6_xseY8LOT85aSfd3FpYjgbYt_8_9deOCAKJOWF7qAjYo/s320/hoezee.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://shop5.gospelcom.net/epages/FaithAlive.storefront/EN/product/160250#full">Grace through Every Generation</a>: The Continuing Story of the Christian Reformed Church,</span> by Scott Hoezee Grand Rapids: Faith Alive, 2006. BX6819 .N7 H64 2006 <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://shop5.gospelcom.net/isroot/FaithAlive/SiteImages/Images_pdfs/cpmk_1-59255-294-3_samp01.pdf">Download the 1st chapter</a> of this book.</span><br /></li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">Henry J. Kuiper: Shaping the Christian Reformed Church, 1907-1962,</span> by James A. De Jong (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007) BX6843 .K85 2007</li><li><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Son-Secession-Historical-Reformed-America/dp/080284040X/ref=sr_1_1/002-9467298-0295251?ie=UTF8&s=books&amp;amp;amp;qid=1177951620&sr=1-1">Son of Secession</a>: Douwe J. Vander Werp</span>, by Janet Sjaarda Sheeres (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006) BX6843 .V36 S54 2006</li></ul>Our research guide to the <a href="http://library.calvin.edu/class_pages_archive/2007_spring/religion/332_crc_history">History of the Christian Reformed Church</a> provides an introduction to handbooks, guides, indexes, and bibliography for the researcher, as well as links to the <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/hh/">Heritage Hall</a> archives, digital resources, and useful databases, such as the <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/library/database/crcpi/">Christian Reformed Church Periodical Index</a> and the <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/library/database/crcmd/">Christian Reformed Ministers Database</a>.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-18232685031944439062008-05-07T14:37:00.008-04:002008-05-08T08:23:23.537-04:00Oxford Scholarship Online and Cambridge CompanionsAt Hekman Library we're trying out electronic book resources:<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/index.html">Oxford Scholarship Online</a>, which now contains about 2000 recent Oxford University Press titles. Check it out. I'm interested in your comments.<br /><br /><ul><li>Do you find the format easily searchable?</li><li>Do you find the format easy to read? How well can you browse through a book? </li><li>What would it be like if Hekman Library purchased these books only as e-books? </li></ul><br />Begin with the search screen below, or use the link above to find a listing of books in your area of interest. The site should recognize computers in Calvin's IP range for full-text access. <form name="searchform" action="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/search/query" method="get"><br /><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 22, 120);" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="320"><tbody><tr><br /><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#001678"><img src="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/search_box_image/header_logo_search_box.gif" alt="Oxford Scholarship logo" /></td></tr><br /><tr><td style="padding: 5px;"><input name="quickSearchText" size="25" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 22, 120);" type="text"></td><br /><td style="padding: 5px;"><input src="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/all_images/search_button_gsm.gif" alt="Search" name="submit" border="0" height="27" type="image" width="115"><br /><input name="OSO_Ext_Search_Form" value="all" type="hidden"><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><br />Cambridge Companions:<br />The Cambridge Companion series has hundreds of books of essays which survey various topics in Religion and Literature. Try it out <a href="http://cco.cambridge.org">here</a>.<br /></form>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-82485769996207516452008-04-12T08:26:00.007-04:002008-04-12T18:30:37.413-04:00The Pope Is Coming<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnhOcbyohe5NLle8E_DKUfBwHKgZselBhBPOX17AO3LpVJdvi9Y8hhjaw6YsMVKgaIz6kNiUDwxhRo5qytixW14ruVWKRB9ryxa2rN3q2capwpopSm-GUipbB8ovCOOYIry4Ob2COxD0/s1600-h/Benedict_XVI.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnhOcbyohe5NLle8E_DKUfBwHKgZselBhBPOX17AO3LpVJdvi9Y8hhjaw6YsMVKgaIz6kNiUDwxhRo5qytixW14ruVWKRB9ryxa2rN3q2capwpopSm-GUipbB8ovCOOYIry4Ob2COxD0/s320/Benedict_XVI.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188488231764760818" border="0" /></a>On Tuesday the Pope Benedict XVI flies into Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and begins a <a href="http://uspapalvisit.org/">six-day visit to the U. S</a>.<br />For wise commentary about potential media coverage of this papal visit read this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/us/29beliefs.html?ref=nationalspecial2">March 29 column in the NY Times</a> by Peter Steinfels. Steinfels comments on the the cliched breathlessness with which the media covers events like this, and the difficulty the press has in reporting on any serious religious leader. He identifies 5 important aspects of the Pope Benedict's trip that ought to be seriously considered:<br /><ul><li>The pope's appearance at the U.N.</li><li>His encounter with American Catholicism.</li><li>The perspective he will offer on Catholic education and identity at a meeting with Catholic educators.</li><li>His interactions with leaders of other religions and Christian denominations.</li><li>His skill in navigating the partison politics of the current U.S. presidential campaign.</li></ul><br />Steinfels also notes the irony that some of the least examined spoken words of the pope in the coming week will be those most important to him: the <a href="http://catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/Mass.htm">words of the mass</a>.Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-70806500251207218862007-09-17T13:07:00.000-04:002007-09-18T09:35:48.754-04:00Google Reader, RSS, and You: Keeping Current with Journal Literature<div>A few notes on the Hekman Library's Library Lunch Break of Tuesday, September 18. Presenters: Francene Lewis and Lugene Schemper.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrff9GMQ4QTAJzCHYPZtMgRbbczZ1QbmkjwGYXR4ksAssSA7-MJLKymliJY7qakvxTO0mYWM5mxKa7ujDIamA9UVJybvt2pbiO9MlRlVRp0S154ubaUYUddYOXCT-RfxgrCrinizE9OA/s1600-h/netflix.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062967769640815154" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrff9GMQ4QTAJzCHYPZtMgRbbczZ1QbmkjwGYXR4ksAssSA7-MJLKymliJY7qakvxTO0mYWM5mxKa7ujDIamA9UVJybvt2pbiO9MlRlVRp0S154ubaUYUddYOXCT-RfxgrCrinizE9OA/s200/netflix.jpg" border="0" height="71" width="87" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3rkFIH9sCECHwJPP0LbQjn9uUVfQFPX6QYeQ1Mql-bRjgdCOuNXSMbTqHCuiVST5T69PE0qE0Zwz1bgoQCGf1R3LiAjZvBevngvQKCS6UwjAS-gq-mSHevMOmZt3bU7d4xt4xEbloJg/s1600-h/blockbuster.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062967593547156002" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3rkFIH9sCECHwJPP0LbQjn9uUVfQFPX6QYeQ1Mql-bRjgdCOuNXSMbTqHCuiVST5T69PE0qE0Zwz1bgoQCGf1R3LiAjZvBevngvQKCS6UwjAS-gq-mSHevMOmZt3bU7d4xt4xEbloJg/s200/blockbuster.jpg" border="0" /></a>To get a movie video, most people use one of two options: 1) Go find it and bring it home (a lá Blockbuster) or 2) Have it sent to you (a lá Netflix). To read an academic journal nowadays, you can use the Blockbuster method (find the journal electronically or go physically to the library and get it) or the Netflix method (have it sent to you, either physically by mail or electronically).<br /><br />RSS is a means of using the Netflix method to have the contents of a journal delivered to your computer whenever a new issue is published.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cgC4HRB4du013y_chYtWGHAXArrh5SXAWtA8_3jjTMhwlR3jz1mEROxsoWApjmhXUxYm5BFbhNFMI66AyfW8DWv449erdF1RgUyrHprlNhn9USa_PHlo1HFLXrZULp78HLQb-7pr0ZA/s1600-h/rss_icons.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062965901330041330" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cgC4HRB4du013y_chYtWGHAXArrh5SXAWtA8_3jjTMhwlR3jz1mEROxsoWApjmhXUxYm5BFbhNFMI66AyfW8DWv449erdF1RgUyrHprlNhn9USa_PHlo1HFLXrZULp78HLQb-7pr0ZA/s200/rss_icons.png" border="0" /></a>Let's say you want to take a look at the contents of the <em><a href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/IJST">International Journal of Systematic Theology</a></em> every time it comes out. You would go to the web sit of IJST. You would right-click on the orange RSS link, and then left-click on the "Copy Shortcut" item. You would copy this link into the feed on a program called a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_Reader">news reader or aggregator</a> , such as "Google Reader." Every time the IJST publishes a new issue, the new contents would become available on your reader. If the Hekman Library has an electronic subscription to the journal (and we have thousands of electronic subscriptions) the complete article would be available to you from on campus. It's possible to set up a reader so that you can monitor the contents of any number of journals. As an example, here's how I have my reader set up, (click image to enlarge):<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3u9Ie-_Mpu3actFRButsdge-ofp60Ql7wh4ceKgwBvSjIkyYS9eUZYBhWO-PSllplEcqNoD3IGdTkuU4yySjwOzLYh0xpfhV0P2Gz5z9QnLP-B7wnZO4f-tWcKaAxvvte4NJe7Li7dQ/s1600-h/googlereader.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3u9Ie-_Mpu3actFRButsdge-ofp60Ql7wh4ceKgwBvSjIkyYS9eUZYBhWO-PSllplEcqNoD3IGdTkuU4yySjwOzLYh0xpfhV0P2Gz5z9QnLP-B7wnZO4f-tWcKaAxvvte4NJe7Li7dQ/s400/googlereader.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063011973444225634" border="0" /></a><br />Sound confusing? Here's a video that explains RSS and how to set up a reader for a blog or any web site, such as a journal:<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062962375161891298" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 199px; height: 164px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqj2POVSI18JAB-l1_mqoQMdH0KT9F4p9a245zei5aNB_4RmO5vK6RedxEv7d9-M3-sCwpMhFFU8IAXnE7XmRF5PCtTIsMJXzM_Gyuwjp860u80RS3oCls-tvHyWgUej2azN6UA1vfXr0/s320/Leelefever-RSSInPlainEnglish369.flv.jpg" border="0" /><div><div><div><p align="center"><a href="http://blip.tv/file/205570">Click this link</a></p></div></div></div></div>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-37026923822216120432007-08-31T08:51:00.000-04:002007-08-31T09:52:38.508-04:00New Graphic Novel Collection<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTSkNyXk5g6RMbhvQywWWlpnRpbX74ZNIegqjlJMUm_rxHTS9y1meRLMYsMHifIoSlnjSvLFsUer7GBG2BSQV1H3mTr7KzNkl7KpdEKhLlwZr17lTZ9USXhabkUl6eC2qSOQm7pQV8lw/s1600-h/calvinistromance.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTSkNyXk5g6RMbhvQywWWlpnRpbX74ZNIegqjlJMUm_rxHTS9y1meRLMYsMHifIoSlnjSvLFsUer7GBG2BSQV1H3mTr7KzNkl7KpdEKhLlwZr17lTZ9USXhabkUl6eC2qSOQm7pQV8lw/s400/calvinistromance.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104851772997768610" border="0" /></a>Look for a new collection this fall at Hekman Library. On third floor we're adding a special collection of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novels">graphic novels</a> . This isn't my project, and I'm not a great graphic novel fan, so I'm not sure what we'll be collecting. The Calvin English department will offer a course on graphic novels in the spring. Something that comes to mind in the biblical area is J. T. Waldman's <a href="http://www.megillatesther.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Megillat Esther</span></a> ( <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=a957285">4th floor BS1373 .W35 2005</a> ) (See the graphic below for a preview) . But stay tuned for further information. I couldn't resist posting the cover at left, but don't spend too much energy trying to find it; I'm fairly certain the book doesn't exist.<br />..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-wVbzd4xIm6fUzF2ZQLOD7QOnRCArpqC6iXk5dDpG0KT-jv5IdowrDOEAECI4RxE3sKlcwqKSJQAwziXGR2QUA-zJKkDn9kWvHSxZu0BXrHsG0NVQX9RT0ufoGljjIrW0Y87HNCfjQw/s1600-h/scroll_preview02.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-wVbzd4xIm6fUzF2ZQLOD7QOnRCArpqC6iXk5dDpG0KT-jv5IdowrDOEAECI4RxE3sKlcwqKSJQAwziXGR2QUA-zJKkDn9kWvHSxZu0BXrHsG0NVQX9RT0ufoGljjIrW0Y87HNCfjQw/s400/scroll_preview02.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104859246240863698" border="0" /></a>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-35930423567767186142007-08-30T22:24:00.000-04:002007-08-30T22:49:45.457-04:00Finding the "Best" Biblical Commentary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb1ylT48Az2L1UX-kETriqRjQuLmlD0FZ-YiiE5dsQhtz7dkWEjuDwh64fk5gdU-pxz5POinCX_W-goA7tQtFDVcoo2SSOPMtHWND-xpMANTK58dcMhWK3haI6RBK6huoMBKvz92ED8ZA/s1600-h/jerome.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057530212195059810" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; width: 179px; cursor: pointer; height: 265px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb1ylT48Az2L1UX-kETriqRjQuLmlD0FZ-YiiE5dsQhtz7dkWEjuDwh64fk5gdU-pxz5POinCX_W-goA7tQtFDVcoo2SSOPMtHWND-xpMANTK58dcMhWK3haI6RBK6huoMBKvz92ED8ZA/s320/jerome.jpg" border="0" /></a>Recommending the “best” biblical commentaries from the hundreds available in a well-stocked library is complicated by their diversity of purposes, formats, theological or denominational orientations, and the level of your expertise in biblical interpretation. In our <a href="http://library.calvin.edu/subject_guides/Religion/">Religion and Theology Research Guide</a> we've recommended a number of commentaries for each book of the Bible: <a href="http://library.calvin.edu/guides/guides_for_finding/theology/commentaries/old_testament">Old Testament</a> and <a href="http://library.calvin.edu/guides/guides_for_finding/theology/commentaries/new_testament">New Testament</a><a href="http://library.calvin.edu/guides/guides_for_finding/theology/commentaries/new_testament">.</a> Calvin Seminary's <a href="http://cep.calvinseminary.edu/index.php?primaryNav=none">Center for Excellence in Preaching</a> also makes similar <a href="http://cep.calvinseminary.edu/encounterText/commentaries.php">recommendations</a>.<br /><br /><br />There are several excellent print resources for commentary recommendations:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tiz-d7Qv2PFpvRJmyslSGjQatEzJ_3PjBTuSeFHptETuwrTLH-o8fdJJxhSfwUiE4z0fV0pTGuN1tyDgAKSufe2tTFlpBMuuLD_TFVoqa2mr1tBMND6I9Iwu1__RSokDotwYA63z8Qw/s1600-h/longman.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057538127819786354" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 80px; cursor: pointer; height: 131px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tiz-d7Qv2PFpvRJmyslSGjQatEzJ_3PjBTuSeFHptETuwrTLH-o8fdJJxhSfwUiE4z0fV0pTGuN1tyDgAKSufe2tTFlpBMuuLD_TFVoqa2mr1tBMND6I9Iwu1__RSokDotwYA63z8Qw/s200/longman.jpg" border="0" /></a>Tremper Longman, <span style="font-style: italic;">Old Testament Commentary Survey</span>, 4th ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 157 pp. ThRef Z7772 .A1 L64 2007<br /></div><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">Longman describes himself as representing "an evangelical approach to the Old Testament." He gives a brief annotation for each commentary mentioned and categorizes each as suitable for the Layperson (L), Minister (M), or Scholar (S) (or some combination of these categories). He also rates each commentary on scale of one to five.<br /><br /></span></blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPccqeSw1-DlbluP7kf0qOkDGOC4h3JLRWwcQqQSJo5-sS4x-xXRz8YGCv2If_DHV6VjIE4ZvNYN3hpvd6FwjS0SeEiMccC72quFeZ3EScfHpOozDkHxJ7ghoslLCRstUs7bfXbnHST74/s1600-h/carlson.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057538518661810306" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 81px; cursor: pointer; height: 131px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPccqeSw1-DlbluP7kf0qOkDGOC4h3JLRWwcQqQSJo5-sS4x-xXRz8YGCv2If_DHV6VjIE4ZvNYN3hpvd6FwjS0SeEiMccC72quFeZ3EScfHpOozDkHxJ7ghoslLCRstUs7bfXbnHST74/s200/carlson.jpg" border="0" /></a>D. A. Carson, <span style="font-style: italic;">New Testament Commentary Survey</span>, 6th ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001), 160 pp. ThRef BS2341.2 .C33 2007<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">Carson's commentary recommendations take the form of brief bibliographic essays (4 to 8 pages); one for each New Testament book. He avoids a formal rating system, but his comments give one a good feel for the strengths and weaknesses of the commentary literature on each book.<br /><br /></span></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd7wRpwZh-ZPZ6qOgdI4eb7aR-cE6qZv0XRtYK5ITgc2ljbFDYTaLAckT2G4vZGVN2rkfcdr5Jhyv1RVDo4GJ_hqEXBcV2JtXKUyF7d2H_7Q24EBw0uGX7ft9RgC3mxzLLWN2XnKC47lw/s1600-h/glynn.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057539132842133650" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 78px; cursor: pointer; height: 122px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd7wRpwZh-ZPZ6qOgdI4eb7aR-cE6qZv0XRtYK5ITgc2ljbFDYTaLAckT2G4vZGVN2rkfcdr5Jhyv1RVDo4GJ_hqEXBcV2JtXKUyF7d2H_7Q24EBw0uGX7ft9RgC3mxzLLWN2XnKC47lw/s200/glynn.jpg" border="0" /></a>John Glynn, <span style="font-style: italic;">Commentary and Reference Survey: A Comprehen</span><span style="font-style: italic;">sive Guide to Biblical and Theological Resources</span>, 10th ed. (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2007). ThRef Z7770 .G59 2007<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">Glynn's book is more ambitious than the above two, with a more comprehensive coverage of other biblical reference resources. For each book of the Bible, he classifies commentaries as either "Technical/Semitechnical" or "Exposition." He also assigns one of four different classifications to each commentary</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> (See p. 17 for his explanation of these criteria)</span><span style="font-size:85%;">:<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">"Evangelical"(E) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">"Evangelical/Critical"(E/Cr) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">"Conservative/Moderate"(C/M) </span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">"Liberal/Critical"(L/C) </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:85%;">Additionally, he highlights (in bold type) those commentaries he highly recommends. For some (though not all) commentaries he gives a few descriptive phrases, but overall his evaluative comments are few. For each biblical book he also includes a list of "special studies" which cannot be classified as commentaries.</span></blockquote>Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84813959296230606.post-46680259669971164872007-07-12T16:36:00.000-04:002007-07-12T21:56:14.246-04:00Nebo-Sarsekim : Outed from the ArchivesWhen you do archival research, you can find surprising things. The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/11/ntablet111.xml">British Museum announced this week</a> that an Austrian scholar who has been working through an archive of economic cuneiform texts has translated a 6th c. B.C. clay tablet which mentions a Babylonian officer, Nabu-sharrussu-ukin. It appears that this corresponds to the Nebo-Sarsekim who was present at the Fall of Jerusalem recorded in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah%2039;&version=31;">Jeremiah 39</a>.<br />The tablet reads: <blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBxZYdBJ45eeRmB4W0kJi5pKDNPsf3w9qLz0ZZ9szeVGZYTkBOxqYcNoqkNwiTyLbajPOpUA2qD_2_Rpaz3oIKGuH89S-Jn2xLdGbqX8U1pm5MGSM5Hi5i6Ksou0soHm5M_vm6WXd27U/s1600-h/nebosarsekim.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBxZYdBJ45eeRmB4W0kJi5pKDNPsf3w9qLz0ZZ9szeVGZYTkBOxqYcNoqkNwiTyLbajPOpUA2qD_2_Rpaz3oIKGuH89S-Jn2xLdGbqX8U1pm5MGSM5Hi5i6Ksou0soHm5M_vm6WXd27U/s200/nebosarsekim.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086416902850097586" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">(Regarding) 1.5 minas (0.75 kg) of gold, the property of Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, the chief eunuch, which he sent via Arad-Banitu the eunuch to [the temple] Esangila: Arad-Banitu has deliv</span><span style="font-size:78%;">ered [it] to Esangila. In the presence of Bel-usat, son of Alpaya, the r</span><span style="font-size:78%;">oyal bodyguard, [and of] Nadi</span><span style="font-size:78%;">n, son of Marduk-zer-ibni. Month XI, day 18, year 10 [of] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.</span></blockquote><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhojw_620WHv3q9wTYRxzk88NYaC5d5oCV00ZewSszRnA01Ku7t2YCkmzXiSYTIWemvxZhG7WWqaS_rea8H-gAw_3dH_7SCWSOEKxEzzl0NoM-hT4zJN9wh0-l2smrlvN-SsARRb9b9yA/s1600-h/Sippar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhojw_620WHv3q9wTYRxzk88NYaC5d5oCV00ZewSszRnA01Ku7t2YCkmzXiSYTIWemvxZhG7WWqaS_rea8H-gAw_3dH_7SCWSOEKxEzzl0NoM-hT4zJN9wh0-l2smrlvN-SsARRb9b9yA/s200/Sippar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086429272355910082" border="0" /></a>The tablet was acquired by the British Museum in 1920, and came from the ancient city of <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ecai.org/iraq/historicsites/sitelocimages/Sippar.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ecai.org/iraq/SiteName.asp%3FSiteID%3D42&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;h=189&w=220&sz=68&hl=en&start=26&um=1&tbnid=eSAJ4eYXLcu4HM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsippar%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN">Sippar</a>, southwest of Baghdad. <a href="http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/article_index/s/sippar_iraq.aspx">Sippar was excavated by the British Museum</a> around 1880 by an Iraqi, <a href="http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/article_index/h/hormuzd_rassam_1826-1910,_ar.aspx">Hormuzd Rassam</a>. Whether this was a tablet originally found by Rassam in the 19th c. (he uncovered 70.000 clay tablets in Sippar), I'm not sure.<br /><br />I do know that Rassam's story as the only prominent Middle Eastern archaeologist in the 19th century is fascinating. David Damrosch has told it well in a recent book <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/lib/permcat.pl?searchdata1=a1174913">The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh</a> (Holt, 2006). It's a great book, not just about Rassam, but also about the decipherment of cuneiform in the early 19th c. and continuing to Saddam Hussein's fascination with Gilgamesh. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZmUeaZ1wvwurOA4mb4jCkOQbYsUTB_W359J9EGHyOCoiTZhJB3Gogs3aqVNLuE5yygATzcj7do66tO1p42a1Of7zN8MrlklMRYoTT3fb1IaNzrfL-0D43T_24Bit9wup3I7CYJc3M7s/s1600-h/georgesmith.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZmUeaZ1wvwurOA4mb4jCkOQbYsUTB_W359J9EGHyOCoiTZhJB3Gogs3aqVNLuE5yygATzcj7do66tO1p42a1Of7zN8MrlklMRYoTT3fb1IaNzrfL-0D43T_24Bit9wup3I7CYJc3M7s/s200/georgesmith.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086435740576657890" border="0" /></a>For an excerpt of the book see the May 2007 issue of <span style="font-style: italic;">Smithsonian</span> magazine, "<a href="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/may/gilgamesh.php?page=1">Epic Hero</a>," the story of George Smith, first translator of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a>, which contains an early version of the flood story. It is reported that when Smith, sitting in the British Museum, realized what he was translating, he shed his clothes and began dancing around his desk in his underwear. (You see him on the right in a more modest moment.) Great summer reading, believe it or not!Hieronymushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16288734175540189415noreply@blogger.com