Thursday, September 29, 2005

Ed Cook (Ralph the Sacred River) got the ball rolling with a post asking about what sorts of topics might be discussed at the CARG Biblioblogger session at SBL.

Jim West (Biblical Theology) followed it up with a post of his own. For the record, Jim, if your 80 minutes on Zwingli includes a life-size, full-scale, History-Channel-style re-enactment of Zwingli, complete with armor, falling on the field of battle (followed by requisite moment of silence), I'd be up for it.

Since I've already got 20 minutes all to my lonesome (I plan on 15 minutes for presentation, five for questions relating to the presentation so as to not take away from panel time), I'm just along for the ride -- ready to add my two cents for whatever comes up.

But I'll happily suggest a few areas that would be of interest, at least to me:

  • Role of Biblioblogdom in the realm of "Open (source) studies" (whatever those are).
  • How has biblioblogging had an effect (positive or negative) on scholarship?
  • How can the biblioblogosphere contribute to the starting, development and completion of academic projects?
  • Are there projects (e.g. in-progress commentary series, translation projects like NETS, Digital Nestle-Aland Prototype, Compehensive Aramaic Lexicon, etc.) that could become a bit more transparent via blogging the trials, successes and status of the project? And would such transparency be productive or merely a distraction for project members?
  • How can biblioblogging help authors (aspiring or otherwise) in their work on new manuscripts? Or, better, is there a role for biblioblogging in the development of material for publication (articles, monographs, dictionary entries, essays, whatever)?

Ok, that's about all I've got. Besides, I've already got 20 minutes of time, and I'm already running long.

Post Author: rico
Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:23:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) 

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