Comments on: The Exodus Decoded: An Appraisal (By Chris Heard) http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/09/17/the-exodus-decoded-an-appraisal-by-chris-heard/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jim Linville http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/09/17/the-exodus-decoded-an-appraisal-by-chris-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-14695 Jim Linville Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:08:41 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/09/17/the-exodus-decoded-an-appraisal-by-chris-heard/#comment-14695 “This documentary underscores to me the need of scholars to popularize our research. ”
I couldn’t agree more! There is an interesting paper on SBL’s Forum site by John Dart called Biblical Research Findings for the Public that complains that a number of institutions discourage academic “wasting” their time doing just that! The article is at:

http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=567

One thing that might get in the way of serious and popular biblical studies is the very problem tearing professional biblical research: the interface between emic and etic perspectives. How to “spin” biblcial academics to a pluralistic audience will not be that easy, although we can probably do better than we are doing now.

Cheers,

Jim

]]> By: Matt Page http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/09/17/the-exodus-decoded-an-appraisal-by-chris-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-14594 Matt Page Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:44:17 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/09/17/the-exodus-decoded-an-appraisal-by-chris-heard/#comment-14594 Hi Tyler,

Thanks for posting this. I covered it briefly in May (here), but haven’t actually had the chance to see it yet, so it’s good to read a few comments on it.

There was also a useful summary of it at Wikipedia last time I looked.

Matt

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