A few days ago I posted on Facebook an excerpt from a book highlighting that peak productivity usually occurs in periods of task isolation–where one may focus on a single task for longer stretches at a time. This excerpt concludes that To produce at your peak level you need to…
One of the practices I keep is to always have a long term reading project on the go, that is less directly related to my active research. I find this keeps me reading broadly and more agile in the way that I process and link concepts together. Over the winter…
Rather than doing a summary for each day I am writing a single summary for the conference, as I travel up to Oxford. The past day and a half of this conference have been stimulating and engaging, with it revolving around paired longer plenary papers and longer breaks for discussion and…
The third day of the symposium was only a half day, and revolved around three plenary sessions. Reinhard Kratz opened the morning with an in depth paper looking at the parallels between 4Q246 and the Old Testament backgrounds that it presumes and envelops. This paper expanded and explored aspects of…
Day two of the St Andrews Symposium started with a bang, as Michael Peppard presented a strong argument for the need of Christological research to engage with the pervasive imperial cult, rather than merely focusing on the Jewish origins. To put Peppard’s perspective on the imperial cult in his own…
The St Andrews symposium on ‘Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity’ kicked off today with a busy afternoon including four plenary sessions and a parallel session with four papers. Richard Bauckham started the day with a paper on the use of Lord (κυριος) as a replacement…
