Hardly the Last Word

Since Mary and I had the same Saturday off (it doesn’t happen often enough), we took Micah to the park and took these pictures: Scenes from a Saturday

I really enjoy Job 22. Having lost the battle of wits with Job, having seen his arguments shredded and heard Job’s speech end, at the end of chapter 21, with “all that is left of your answers is falsehood,” he proceeds to make stuff up. In the face of Job’s claims to innocence, and in [...]

I met today both with my major professor and with the professor over in the religion department, both of whom will be conducting my comprehensive exams a little over a year from now. Dr. Medine (over in Religion) liked my comps list, and Dr. Freer thinks I have an article-in-the-making cooking with my Milton paper. [...]

Today I taught Job chapters 11-14, so I’ve got more plainly in mind the content of ch. 13 and its place in the scene. Job’s speech that starts in chapter 12 and runs to chapter 14, his longest to that point in the book, responds to Zophar’s proto-apophatic claim that the depth and height of [...]

I’ve succumbed to a bit of image-consumerism. Since I had a 25% discount coupon, I bought myself a pocket-sized Moleskine notebook at Borders today. Now I have the groovy little notebook that wannabe poets and intellectuals like so much to carry around. The bottom of the ad page says something about contemporary nomadism… I have [...]

It’s been a while since I posted anything substantial, and I have to point to microbes as the culprits. About two weeks ago Micah got the flu. Then Mary got a virus that wasn’t the flu. Then I got a bacterial something-or-other (perhaps strep?) that was unrelated to the previous two. Then Micah got strep. [...]

To my readers with blogs of your own: At the prompting of my department, I’ve created a more formal academic web site. I’ve put a link to it in the links section in the right column. As a favor to me, I’d like to ask each of you to put my name, Nathan Gilmour, in [...]

Micah’s Birthday

Monday we wrapped up the David unit with the rise of Solomon. I think that, by the end, my students had a real, literary familiarity with David, the kind that one gets by the end of Hamlet or the gospel of Luke. I asserted over and over during the course of the unit that the [...]

Recent Micah pics I’ve added some pictures from last weekend to this album.

Yikes. I just finished the first part of the weekend’s homework in Beowulf class. Fifty-four lines. Yeesh. Now on to the next bit…

I just spent forty-five minutes plowing through the first 12 pages of Adorno for next week. Welcome back, Cole’s class. Yesterday I taught one of the most fun lessons in my Hebrew Bible and/as Literature class, the David and Bathsheba lesson. Tomorrow is another one, the Absalom lesson. David’s cool-headed maneuvering in 2 Samuel 11 [...]