From Bruce J. Malina, "Rhetorical Criticism and Social-Scientific Criticism: Why Won't Romanticism Leave Us Alone?" in Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology: Essays from the 1994 Pretoria Conference, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Thomas H. Olbricht, ...
James Dvorak
Posted on October 25th, 2018
My article, "'Evidence that Commands a Verdict': Determining the Semantics of Imperatives in the New Testament," was published today in Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics volume 7. Go check it out.
My article on the semantics of the imperative...
James Dvorak
Posted on October 24th, 2018
Last Wednesday, Oct. 17, Hagan and I set off to spend our few days of Fall Break on the family farm in Iowa. We left after his school day was over and drove into the evening, arriving at our destination at a little past 10 PM. Both Mom (a.k.a., Gr...
James Dvorak
Posted on October 23rd, 2018
Sure, the words "hockey" and "Oklahoma" are not often paired—but there is hockey in Oklahoma, and Hagan is very much into it!
Last year Hagan played on a house league team at Arctic Edge arena in Edmond, OK, as part of the Youth Hockey Lea...
James Dvorak
Posted on October 15th, 2018
It's that time of year again when conference papers need to be finished up and once-distant writing project deadlines now seem to be approaching at break-neck pace. Here are just a few things I am currently working on or have in the queue:
"The Li...
James Dvorak
Posted on October 15th, 2018
A while back I was invited to write an article for a periodical called Didaktikos (a Greek word meaning "skillful teacher/able to teach" [used at 1 Tim. 3:2 as a characteristic of an elder/bishop]). The title of the article is "Battling Your 'Expe...
James Dvorak
Posted on September 7th, 2018
Today I was rereading a couple of chapters of this old friend, and came across a bit that is still relevant for us today, despite having been published in 1983."The reason we have not made the attempt to recover admonition in our time are complex....
James Dvorak
Posted on June 29th, 2018
