Chris Heard at Higgaion has blogged about the academic projects he will be working on this summer.  I thought it would be interesting to hear the same thing from other bibliobloggers out there, so I will keep the ball rolling by blogging about my academic plans.

  • I have about twenty articles left to write for the New Interpreters Dictonary of the Bible.  I wrote about 85 entries last summer and just have these few left to finish out my assigned articles.  This summer will include such exciting topics as Teman, Thutmose, Turban, Tel Sippor, Zeredah, and Khirbet Raddana.
  • I need to put the finishing touches on the paper I am reading at the European Association of Biblical Studies conference in Budapest in August on the development of Deuteronomy and Joshua.
  • I am starting a paper on dating of the Priestly source and whether splitting it into P and H will resolve some of mixed data that have been encountered by linguistic attempts at dating.
  • I am also considering whether to apply for a Louisville Institute grant to write a book on the way Christian radio talk show hosts use the Bible to address political issues.

I am looking forward to being able to get all this research done.  One of the problems with working in Lithuania is not having access to an academic library.  I have the ATLA database on the Internet, which allows me to access most articles, but if I don’t have a book in Lithuania I either have to order it or go without.  I will be spending next week and the week after that in Alexandria, VA, and Baltimore, MD, where I can use the research libraries at Virginia Theological Seminary and the Johns Hopkins University.

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