The Black Hole
Don’t be expecting much more than an occassional snippet on these pages for the next three weeks. My LSW and I are about to enter the black hole known as graduate level final exams. Our last class is this Friday morning. A week from Thursday is the Greek exam, with Hebrew the next day. Then the following Tuesday through Thursday we have three other class exams in a row (New Testament Intro, Apologetics, Systematic Theology). Our sixth class, Dynamics of Biblical Change, has no final exam but has two major papers due during the exam period.
This week we’re getting prepped by the profs for the exams. Basically they each tell us that we should be prepared to give the complete historical etymology of every word they have uttered in class this semester. In addition we should know everything that is in every book they assigned plus most of what is in books they only thought about assigning. And things we don’t even know we should know? We should know them too.
Just kidding! It’s not quite that bad, but it can seem like it when you are facing your first battery of grad level finals.
So if my molecular structure somehow holds together through the black hole, I’ll see you all on the other side!
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November 30th, 2004 at 9:25 am
I just hope that robot Maximillian doesn’t kick your butt.
November 30th, 2004 at 9:35 am
If you do survive an encounter with a singularity…how would you get information past the event horizon to tell us about it?
November 30th, 2004 at 1:58 pm
Jeff: Don’t worry, I’m bringing magnets to mess up his floppy discs.
_steve: Two words - PostIt Notes(tm)
December 1st, 2004 at 1:23 pm
if you and karyn come out of your hole on the sabbath, let me highly recommend a visit to 10th pres this weekend. Notable Scottish preacher Eric Alexander is preaching morning and evening, and he is phenomenal. there is communion in the morning and the choir is singing at the 9, 11, and 6:15 services.
sadly, i will be out of town.
December 1st, 2004 at 2:40 pm
Though I visit your site often this is my first post. As I read today I thought, “I sure do not miss seminary finals.”
I’m curious, what texts does WTS use for NTI and Systematics?
December 1st, 2004 at 3:41 pm
Ah, lighten up…how hard can it be?
My study habits for seminary were as follows: go to work and worry about school, go do my part-time job at church and worry about school, spend a whole bunch of time with the family and worry about school, do a bunch of urgent tasks around the house and worry about school, then finally get the time to do school and play pinball on the computer the whole time instead to blow off steam.
Obviously, this didn’t lend itself to learning much, but they gave me the degree anyway and my congregation doesn’t know the difference.
Of course, that’s why my blog consists mostly of ramblings about U2 and odd things that happen on my part-time UPS job, instead of theology.
But still, just don’t sweat it. Kick back, man. Play some Microsoft pinball. Try to beat my high score (64,000,000).
December 1st, 2004 at 6:42 pm
Reading blogs is my pinball. Which means that at this very moment I must be “blowing off steam” rather than preparing for my Hebrew vocab test.
December 1st, 2004 at 6:48 pm
Buck:
No one text, but we do have a number of reading assignments:
Albert Bell: Exploring the New Testament World
Jacob Neusner: A Rabbi Talks with Jesus
Moises Silva: “Biblical Greek” and “Reformed Textual Criticism?” (unpublished classroom handouts)
James VanderKam: The Dead Sea Scrolls Today
The Book of Jubilees
Psalms of Solomon
H. N. Ridderbos: Redemptive History and the NT Scriptures
Richard Gaffin: “NT as Canon” in Innerrancy and Hermeneutic: A Tradition, A Challenge, A Debate
Harold Greenlee: Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism
Bruce Metzger: The Text of the NT: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration.
December 17th, 2004 at 4:16 am
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