PhD dissertation submitted ✅

Earlier today I enjoyed a culminating moment of three years of work. The dissertation is now in. Time to take a break — then begins the preparation for the viva in early December!

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Publication day!

My article, “Introductory Matters: Tracing the Aims of Proverbs 1:1–7 through the Book’s First Collection,” published in SJT, is now up under FirstView

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

The article is a minor rework of a paper I gave last year at the @abdndivinity.bsky.social PGR Symposium

Open access!! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Really excited to share that my article, “Forgetting the Covenant of Her God: Ethnicity, Social Memory, and the Covenant in Proverbs 2:17,” is now available online — and it’s open access!

doi.org/10.1163/1568...

Proofs!

Coming soon (hopefully) to a Scottish Journal of Theology near you.

Proofs are in for my forthcoming article in Biblical Interpretation, “Forgetting the Covenant of Her God: Ethnicity, Social Memory, and the Covenant in Proverbs 2:17.” I’m really happy with how this article turned out and really excited to see it out in the world.

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My article, “Stillness and Salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in Its Context” is now up online—and it’s open access!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Coming this Friday on all major platforms, in time for the beginning of Advent, my take on one of the old faithfuls, Once in Royal David’s City!

If you’re a Spotify user you can presave it by following this link: show.co/MqE7H67

Crutch word at the moment: “particular.” Given what I’m working on, this is not without good reason, but now that I’ve noticed it, I’m painfully aware every time my fingers find those letters on the keyboard.

Oh hey, I guess it’s proofs day

Yes pls

I’m remembering why I used to set my alarm for 05.30. I’m up before everyone else and loving the quiet of the morning.

Getting up early like that was sort of detailed when my kids were born, but maybe it’s time to get back into it.

Yesterday I got the news that my article “Stillness and Salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in Its Context” has been accepted for publication in JSOT 🎉

As a South African working on a PhD in Hebrew Bible I can’t say I expected to read a book about Abraham Lincoln for a not insignificant part of my research, but here we go

First impressions, the look and feel isn’t as nice as Threads. But Threads hasn’t turned out to fill the space for me, so let’s see what this Sky place is like.