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Emails from SBL

We’re in Boston for the annual convention of the Society of Biblical Literature, and we’ve intercepted a few emails from grad students sending news of their convention experiences. Here are some excerpts:

Thomists in the Revival Tent

In leafing through my collection of Academic Alerts, I found the following piece in Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 1994). It’s announcing Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli’s Handbook of Christian Apologetics. I was the editor for that book, and I recall wanting to approach my Alert assignment from a different angle and have some fun with it. Here’s how it played out:

A Seventeen-Year Alert

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If you think the Homeland Security Advisory System has been going a long time, at seven years, how about IVP’s Academic Alert, which several months ago passed its seventeenth anniversary? My colleague Jim Hoover, after reading the page proofs of this fall’s edition, exclaimed that he couldn’t believe it was that old. I agreed. It seems like just a few years ago that we hatched the idea and made it a reality. But the first Academic Alert appeared in the spring of ’92.