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Dr. Dvorak

Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Works in Progress

Here is a running list of the writing projects I am working on.Chapter on Martin Dibelius for volume on Luke–Acts in the Milestones in New Testament Scholarship series edited by Porter and Fay [see the Gospel of John volume as an example] (due ASA...

Quotable quote

Dr. Burt Smith was the speaker at OC's summer commencement. One quote he used stood out to me, and he used it to speak to his point that all of us should seek to be lifelong learners who, as a result, are able to adapt to constant change. Here it ...

Updates to the blog

I have to admit that I’ve been a little lazy this Spring Break. I intended to get a blog post or two up this week, but I’ve been enjoying family too much. :) That said, I did put new spark plugs in my car and a new control bar on the front passeng...

A chilly (ok, COLD) morning at the farm

It's a chilly morning at the farm: http://t.co/lHxs7YAael pic.twitter.com/2cIEORRY0j— Dr. James D. Dvorak (@DrJimDPhD) December 31, 2014

It's time to write a blog post

I'm trying to get a jump on one of my New Year's resolutions: write more and more meaningful blog posts. I've decided to use IFTTT to help me out. I set up a daily trigger that fires Monday through Friday at 4:00 am. When it fires, it creates a n...

Using Evernote in Education

In the ProfHacker section of The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Amy Cavender wrote an article about using Evernote in Education. This is one of my favorite topics, so I posted a comment there in which I linked to a blog post I wrote awhile back about how...

"This goo.gl short link has been disabled"

For my Introduction to Linguistics course, I provided links to a couple of different kinds of text to compare and contrast, viz. step-by-step instructions for telling one's Mac to always display scrollbars in a Web browser and one of my Mom's reci...

Greek vocabulary for Porter, et. al., Fundamentals of New Testament Greek

Here are links to Evernote notebooks with vocabulary words for each chapter of Porter, Reed, and O’Donnell, *Fundamentals of New Testament Greek* (1st ed). Note that chapter 1 does not have a vocabulary list. You can use these notebooks with Evern...

Reading for Values (Part 2)

[This is part two of a three part series. Click here for part 1] The second major part of the model is referred to as ENGAGEMENT. This has to do with the way people use language "to present themselves as recognizing, answering, ignoring, challen...

Reading for Values (Part 1)

This past Sunday (June 8, 2014) at church, I began teaching my portion of a class on 1 Corinthians. I spent the first part of the class talking about reading the text for values and describing the model of appraisal we’ll use to do that. This is t...