On the Virtues of Slow Writing

I found this insightful. I still write too slowly though.

Ritmeyer on the Pool of Siloam

Leen Ritmeyer has an interesting post here on the ongoing challenges of identifying the location of the Pool of Siloam.

Journal of Biblical Literature 142:4

Volume 142:4  of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now available. Here is a list of articles with links to abstracts.

Compilation or Redaction in the Pentateuch: Reassessing Numbers 25
Ariel Seri-Levi

Judges 2:11–19: A Palimpsest of Political History
Julian C. Chike

Saul’s Israel, the “Hebrews,” and Identity Politics in 1 Samuel 13–14
Ki-Eun Jang

The Bible in the Aramaic Bowls: Between Memorization, Orality, and Writtenness
Dorota Molin

Resurrecting Amulets and Ostraca within New Testament Textual Criticism
Gregory S. Paulson and Brice C. Jones

The Omens at Jesus’s Death (Mark 15:33–39) and the Divine Abandonment of the Temple before Its Destruction in 70 CE
Nathanael Vette

Rethinking John and “the Synagogue” in Light of Expulsion from Public Assemblies in Antiquity
Wally V. Cirafesi

The Faithful Son: Rereading Hebrews 1:3b
Jonathan Rowlands

The Strange Significance of the Name Carpocrates in Early Christian Polemic
Michael Pope and Grant Adamson

The Importance of the Old Testament

Michael Kruger gives three reasons here.