Today was the first day of classes at Wartburg. I taught four sections of Literature of the Old and New Testaments back to back to back to back. This will be my schedule all semester. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 7:45 to 1:05, you will know where to find me. It was tiring, but I am thrilled to be back in the classroom after a year away from academia.

This evening I went out to dinner with my roommate. He is a Ph.D. student at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Chicago. Like me, here is here for just one semester and is only teaching the Literature of the Old and New Testaments. Over dinner he mentioned the fact that my name sounded familiar. He asked what my dissertation was about (the campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq), and when I told him he said he had read it. Apparently Ralph Klein uses it in one of his Ph.D. seminars It is nice to know the book is actually being read.

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