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Be sure to check out these posts:

The Kaufman School: Higher Criticism is a Fruitless Endeavor at Awilum

Hannibal and the Alps at Idle musings 

The never coy, hardly ever boring, always insightful Jim West introduces us, once again, to "Bullgeschichte" interpretation.  Check it out!

If you missed the following posts, do take the time to browse them. 

Tyler Williams of Codex fame explains the Strange New World of the Bible.

Jerome’s prologues are continued by Kevin at biblicalia (see especially Genesis).

The most recent Jimbo/Joe Bob debate drones on…

You can see where you fall in the grand political spectrum here.  I apparently am between the Joe & Jim extreme; somewhat close to Tyler and Gandhi it seems: Economic Left/Right: -2.63;Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21 [HT: Jeff the Baptist].

Previous Around the Web Post

We can all thank Ben Myers at Faith and Theology for initiating this meme. I thought I dogged a bullet until I saw that Tyler tagged me.  So here it is:

1. One book that changed your life:
The Bible

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
::amazon(0802808689,God in the Dock)::, a wonderful collection of C.S. Lewis’ essays (I particularly recommend, “On the Reading of Old Books” and “Xmas and Christmas”)

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
::amazon(3438052504,This one)::

4. One book that made you laugh:
Any of the ::amazon(0836251822,Dilbert):: books by Scott Adams

5. One book that made you cry:
N/A

6. One book that you wish had been written:

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Comparative Semitic Grammar

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
It is actually a love/hate emotion: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton

8. One book you’re currently reading:
::amazon(0788502484,The Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative):: by Cynthia Miller.

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
::amazon(1565632559,Mikra)::: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity edited by Martin Mulder (I have started this volume several times; class work, however, has gotten in the way of learning)

10. Now tag five people:

I will save you all from having to continue this meme.  Let it end with me!

Check out Daniel R. Driver’s online bibliography of the works of Brevard Childs.

The official dig weblog of Tell es-Safi/Gath has its own bibliography online. 

Rob at http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk made available an article by Edwin Yamauchi on the order of Ezra/Nehemiah.

Michael Law gives a summary of G. Norton’s article on text criticism in the ::amazon(0199254257,Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies)::. 

The guys at Evangelical Textual Criticism also have an interesting article by James Snapp on the early Hebrew Census data.