Alumni, Announcements, School of Christian Thought

ATTN: Free Luncheon Invite for Graduates of HBU’s School of Christian Thought on Wed, Aug 29

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Back to School Luncheon
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Luncheon in Dillon II

The Office of Alumni Relations invites all graduates from the School of Christian Thought to join us for a luncheon on campus welcoming Dr. Todd Bates, who serves as the new dean of the HBU School of Christian Thought.

Lunch will include a brief program with remarks by Dr. Todd Bates and a campus update by Dr. Robert B. Sloan, President. See campus map for details.

PLEASE RSVP:
https://www.hbu.edu/…/alumni-event/school-of-christian-tho…/

For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 281.649.3413 or alumniassociation@hbu.edu.

11:00 | Opening Convocation in Dunham Theater
Immediately Following | Tug-Of-War in Holcombe Mall
12:00pm – 1:30pm | Luncheon in Dillon II

Should your schedule permit, join us at 11am for Opening Convocation in Dunham Theater with the annual Tug-of-War between freshmen and upperclassmen immediately following in Holcombe Mall.

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Scribal Errors and Decorative Cakes

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I recently came across a few photos of signs and instructions that were spelled incorrectly or had suffered from inappropriate chopping by the word-processor. That reminded me of some cakes I’ve seen where the text of the customer’s Vorlage (the text in front of them, or in their head) did not make it onto the baker’s Big Tip With ballons and crap Blue Flowers ConformationEnjoy your VD Just a flower Just Happy Bday LowerCase Musical Notes No Periods Nothing Nuts Allergy Super Bowel Under Neat That usb-cake-mistakeWith Sprinkles Your Weedingcake unscatCongratshed. Some of these sorts of scribal errors would be classified under errors of hearing, although in many instances it’s simply a matter of faulty comprehension: they heard the word correctly, but failed to understand the intention.  Enjoy.

 

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Why Study Language? For Poetry.

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This was an interesting post about why studying the original languages is important. My Hebrew students who are reading some Psalms with me this semester know this to be true! There is so much playing with language in poetry; no English translation can possibly deliver to its readers what the Hebrew readers devour with delight! [By the way, the site from which this comes is interesting, but they also post on things from the classical world that are bawdy. So reader beware, if you decide to poke around some more.]

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From Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson:

We talked of translation. I said, I could not define it, nor could I think of a similitude to illustrate it; but that it appeared to me the translation of poetry could be only imitation. JOHNSON. ‘You may translate books of science exactly. You may also translate history, in so far as it is not embellished with oratory, which is poetical. Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.’

This is best in the original!

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Announcements, Bible Studies

Summer Bible Study: Change and Your Relationships

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Relationships

This summer at Founders Baptist Church, where I serve as part-time Pastor of Adult Education & Discipleship, we are working through a study guide called Change and Your Relationships: A Mess Worth Making(by Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp). We kick off the study on June 12 and then work through the 12 chapters until Sept 11 (one Sunday is a catch-up day). Most of our Adult Bible Fellowships (AFBs) are going through this study on Sundays at 9am (until 10:30), and I invite you to join us.

From the publisher’s website: “Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp skillfully help individuals and small groups identify the deeper issues that keep relationships less than they are designed to be. They give practical direction on how to resolve conflicts, have difficult conversations, grant forgiveness, overlook weaknesses, celebrate strengths, and grow casual relationships into deep friendships.”

From the front-matter of the Study Guide: “As you work through Change and Your Relationships, it is our hope that you will learn to think more clearly about the primary purpose of relationships and how important they are in conforming us to the likeness of Christ. This key idea of being conformed to Christ can and should radically reorient the way we think about friendships, marriages, relationships with our children and parents, our neighbors, coworkers, and everyone in between.”

Paul Tripp made an excerpt available online, which includes some of the introductory material and the first chapter. You can find it by clicking here.

Announcements, Biblical Scholars, Greek Language, Guest Speakers

HBU Theology Conference This Week: FREE SESSIONS

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In case you’re interested, there is a conference going on at Houston Baptist University at the end of this week commemorating the 500-year anniversary of the *first* published Greek New Testament, an event that helped fuel the Protestant Reformation. There are FOUR FREE plenary sessions, open to the public. I list them below, followed by more info on the conference. Please feel free to come, as well as to distribute this to anyone you think would be interested in attending any of the sessions. Some fine scholars will be speaking in the plenary sessions (Timothy George and Daniel Wallace, for example, as well as HBU’s own Craig Evans, and Reformation scholar Herman Selderhuis!).

Thursday, 7:30pm: Plenary Lecture 1 (Belin Chapel): Timothy George “Erasmus and the Search for the Christian Life”

Friday, 9:00-10:15am: Plenary Lecture 2 (Belin Chapel): Craig A. Evans “Erasmus and the Beginnings of Textual Fundamentalism”

Friday, 7:30pm: Plenary Lecture 3 (Belin Chapel): Daniel B. Wallace “Erasmus and the Publication of the First Greek New Testament”

Saturday, 9:00-10:15am: Plenary Lecture 4 (Belin Chapel): Herman Selderhuis “The Impact of Erasmus´ Biblical Work on the Reformation”

For more info on the conference, the schedule, and the speakers, click here.

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HBU Theology Conference

Ad Fontes, Ad Futura:
Erasmus’ Bible and the Impact of Scripture

February 25-27, 2016
Houston Baptist University

In celebration of upcoming 500th anniversary of Erasmus’ Greek text and the Reformation, the Department of Theology at HBU, in conjunction with the Dunham Bible Museum, is pleased to host the conference Ad Fontes, Ad Futura: Erasmus’ Bible and the Impact of Scripture. The conference will consider the textual and historical issues surrounding the development of the Bible, the Bible’s impact on human society across the centuries, and the future of Biblical translation and interpretation in the future. Our keynote speakers include Craig Evans (Houston Baptist University), Timothy George (Beeson Divinity School, Samford University), Herman Selderhuis (Theological University Apeldoorn) and Daniel B. Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary). The plenary talks are free and open to the public.

Registration
The conference will be held at Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX. The conference fee is $40, which includes refreshments and coffee. Accommodations and meals are not included in the conference fee.

If you are affiliated with HBU (faculty, staff, or student), admission to the conference is free. To register please send an email from your HBU account to theology@hbu.edu, giving your name as you want it on your nametag.

Register and pay online now.

Announcements, Guest Speakers, Missions

You’re Invited to Hear Dr. Danny Akin in Houston, Fri-Sun, March 27-29 for FREE Conference

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13TH ANNUAL SPURGEON CONFERENCE

Friday, March 27th – 7:00pm
Saturday, March 28th – 7:00pm
Sunday, March 29th – 9:00am & 10:30am

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There is NO CHARGE to attend. Click here to see full announcement at the Founders Baptist Church website. Location of Founders Baptist: 24724 ALDINE WESTFIELD RD. SPRING, TX 77373

Announcements

Linguistics and the Greek Verb Conference Announcement!

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Looks like a wonderful conference. Hats off to Chris Fresch for helping to get something like this rolling, along with a tremendous cast of characters (yes, *characters*!). Wish I could be there. Maybe Mike Aubrey can go and live-blog every phoneme for us! 🙂

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I am very excited to announce “Linguistics and the Greek Verb: Recent Discussions and their Implications for NT Exegetes” — a Greek linguistics conference taking place in Cambridge, England, this July!

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The aim of the conference is to bring together NT scholars, linguists, and Classicists to discuss the Greek verbal system in a way that is clear and that moves the conversation forward while acknowledging and respecting the discussions of the past three decades within Biblical Studies. (If you would like to read the backstory of this conference, see my post “How We Got to Where We’re Going: A Story.”) I am incredibly excited about this conference. Not only will we have some phenomenal speakers from within the Biblical Studies guild, but we will also have the benefit of learning from Classicists, voices often not heard in Biblical Studies.

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Biblical Scholars, In Memoriam

OT Scholar Ronald F. Youngblood dies at age of 82

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I’ve been tied up with enough things over the past few weeks to manage to have missed this news until today. On July 5, 2014, Dr. Ronald Youngblood passed into glory. He taught Old Testament/Hebrew for Bethel Seminary at both the Saint Paul, MN and the San Diego, CA campuses (retiring from the latter in 2001). A fine gentleman and faithful, godly biblical scholar, he will be missed. Here are links to some of the sites reflecting on his life and service.

http://www.koinoniablog.net/2014/07/remembering-ronald-f-youngblood.html

http://www.biblica.com/en-us/about-us/news/2014/remembering-ron-youngblood/

The Legacy of Ron Youngblood

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/Jul/19/ronald-youngblood-translation-bible/

 

Greek Language

Wanna’ Study Biblical Greek This Summer at Southwestern Seminary in Houston?

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ANNOUNCEMENT:  I’m teaching Turbo Greek at Southwestern Seminary-Houston starting Tuesday, May 13 .  We will cover a full year of Biblical Greek in 10 wks.  The Greek course meets Tuesdays/Fridays from 8am to noon. In order for the course to make we need enough people committed by the end of the day tomorrow–Friday, May 9.  Please email me (psmarshall AT gmail DOT com) if you need details and I’ll get you set up.

Also, you could contact the following about enrolling ASAP:

Hudson Hanks (hhanks@swbts.edu)
Director of Business & Student Services
713.634.0011 ext. 222

Please spread the word if you know anyone who is interested!

Promoting the study of Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, and Hellenistic Greek