Tag Archives: St. Andrews

Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God

Last night I had the opportunity to listen to Professor Tom Wright (a.k.a. N.T. Wright) give his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity here at the University of St Andrews. Professor Wright has actually been at the university a year now and has previously given major public addresses here, but I guess this [...]
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Heavenly Ascents News

Just wanted to give you a brief update of some things I’ve been doing lately. I posted (a couple of weeks back now) some material over at The Millennial Star about the reforms of King Josiah and the Deuteronomists and how these reforms may have affected the theological themes found in the Old Testament we [...]
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Why We Need Akkadian (and the Humanities)

The following is from my PhD supervisor Jim Davila’s blog, PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com.  I hope he doesn’t mind me reproducing the entire post, but I feel that it is an important topic and he makes a good argument. WHY WE NEED AKKADIAN is explained in a book review in The Forward: Why We Need Akkadian How One Semitic Language [...]
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Wordle of HeavenlyAscents.com

This is a wordle I did at www.wordle.com. It displays some of the main words used in recent posts here at Heavenly Ascents. I got this idea from Dr. James Davila’s great blog on ancient Judaism and related topics: www.PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com. Interesting enough, it looks like he heard about it from BYU Librarian Ryan L. Combs. [...]
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