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My First Research Digest: access to my latest notes and research
My First Research Digest: access to my latest notes and research I first started this weekly update as an avenue to share the fruit of my research. Over the...
Three Principles That More Than Doubled My Academic Productivity
Three Principles That More Than Doubled My Academic Productivity 15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of...
Personal Benefits of Biblical Emotion Exegesis, Part 2
Benefits of Biblical Emotion Exegesis As I wrote last week, I have found five distinct benefits of studying the emotions in Biblical passages: We see God...
Personal Benefits of Biblical Emotion Exegesis, Part 1
Benefits of Biblical Emotion Exegesis Studying the Bible in different ways yields different benefits. Studying the Scriptures from a linguistic perspective...
A Reflection on my time studying oral Bible translation
A Reflection on my time studying oral Bible translation Heather Beal’s presentation on oral Bible translation in my Foundations of Translation course...
A Closer Look at Josh's Translation of Psalm 9
A Closer Look at Josh's Translation of Psalm 9 Last week, I discussed some of the translation philosophy behind my oral translation of Psalm 9. This week, I...
Bridging the Gap: Bringing the Beauty of Biblical Poetry to Life through Poetic Oral Translations
Bridging the Gap: Bringing the Beauty of Biblical Poetry to Life through Poetic Oral Translations There is a huge gap between the beauty of the Psalms in...
Labor Day Break
Labor Day Break! Hey everyone! I am on vacation this week with my wife and her family. In lieu of a normal update, please enjoy these cute pictures of...
How Oral Bible Translation May Enrich Other Disciplines
How Oral Bible Translation May Enrich Other Disciplines Oral Bible translation (OBT) requires a translation both in language, from the biblical texts to...
I could do this for decades
Workflow for Producing an Oral Introduction to Luke We ended the meeting pumped for more. We had just spent four hours presenting our research, discussing...
A Call for Scholarship on Emotions in the Bible
Recently, I submitted a concept paper in hopes of the opportunity to publish some of my research professionally. The following prose comprises a large...
Anatomy of Emotional Meaning
Anatomy of Emotional Meaning Emotional Meaning: Eight Spheres Emotions derive their meaning from the co-occurrence of changes in multiple spheres of human...
The Jesus I Glossed Over
The Jesus I Glossed Over What would you say to a Christian leader who told the parent of a hurting kid that they needed more faith for the healing? How do we...
Context - the key to understanding emotions
Context - the key to understanding emotions Last week, in my first newsletter, I said that one component in befriending the 'elephant' of emotions in the...
Emotions—the elephant in the exegete’s bedroom
Emotions—the elephant in the exegete’s bedroom Emotions create feelings in the innermost sanctuary of our being, the bedrooms of our hearts. Chiefly...