Calvin Park at Random Bloggings has a review of my book, The Campaign of Pharaoh Shoshenq I into Palestine. I met Calvin and his wife last December when I found out they lived close to me in Massachusetts. Calvin provides a very positive review of my book, which I am sure has nothing to do with the fact that I gave him a copy when we met for lunch.

As an aside, when I first met my new roommate Jin Yang, he said he thought my name sounded familiar. We chatted for a bit, and he happened to ask what my dissertation topic was. When I said it was Shoshenq, he said he knew why my name was familiar. Apparently Ralph Klein assigned my book for a seminar in Israelite history at Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. Jin had read my book for that class. It’s a small world, or at least a small academic field.

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