IVP - Addenda & Errata - July 2009 Archives

Martin Hengel, 1926-2009

Many readers of this blog will have already learned that a great New Testament scholar, Martin Hengel, died on July 2. In case you have missed it, there is an excellent obituary by Roland Deines at the Society of Biblical Literature site. For those of us who cut our scholarly teeth on Hengel’s scholarship, he was a figure of heroic proportions. I still recall my amazement as I approached my reading of the first English printing of his Judaism and Hellenism—volume one was the text and volume two was “notes and bibliography”! And who else could pour so much into slender volumes on Crucifixion or The Atonement?

Read Deines’s piece and learn more about this remarkable scholar and Christian! Then read one of his books.

Twittery Liturgy

I’ve been working on our forthcoming Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship written by Brett Provance. Like other volumes in this series, it takes on the knotty vocabulary of an academic area and provides brief and to-the-point definitions. It will be a great aid for students of liturgy.

Having never twittered or even received a tweet, I’ve been feeling a bit sidelined. So the least I can do is provide some twittering fodder for someone else. I know that a tweet can’t exceed 140 characters (though I’m a little confused over whether that includes spaces too, which is just the kind of thing an editor would wonder about). Anyway, here are ten tweets to tuck twixt thine Te Deum and Trisagion.

Remembering July 4, 1969

Forty years ago—July 4, 1969—I was in a Bergschrund (German for “big, hairy crevasse near head of glacier”) on the Eliot Glacier at the base of the North Face of Mt. Hood, Oregon. I had not intended on spending my morning there, by the way. It was not a glaciology field trip.