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Bonnie Jerke (Career Services) was for a second time invited to review and provide input on another new, pre-published book, Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers. She focused on the chapter entitled “The Nonprofit Distance Search.â€
Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) presented three papers at the national SBL/AAR meetings in San Diego in November: “John and Qumran: Discovery and Interpretation over Sixty Years†(in the John and Qumran session of the John, Jesus, and History Group); “From One Quest to Another: The Johannine Conception of Authentic Faith as a Response to the Divine Initiative†(in the What We have Heard from the Beginning session of the John, Jesus, and History Group); and “An Incarnational Sacramentality†(in the Quaker Theological Discussion Group).
Three of Paul’s essays also were published this month: “Bakhtin’s Dialogism and the Corrective Rhetoric of the Johannine Misunderstanding Dialogue: Exposing Seven Crises in the Johannine Situation,†in Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies Semeia Studies 63 (Semeia Studies 63, SBL Press); “On Guessing Points and Naming Stars – The Epistemological Origins of John’s Christological Tensions,†in The Gospel of St. John and Christian Theology (Eerdmans); and “Aspects of Interfluentiality between John and the Synoptics: John 18-19 as a Case Study,†in The Death of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (Peeters, 2007).
Carole Spencer’s (Seminary) new book, Holiness, the Soul of Quakerism (Paternoster Press), was reviewed at the Quaker Theological Discussion Group meetings in San Diego in November. The QTDG sessions were chaired by Corey Beals and Howard Macy (Religious Studies).