Footsore and seat-sore: it must be SBL

Hearing 15 scholars read academic papers over the course of 9 1/2 hours — and then listening (or joining in) as their colleagues respond — can make for a happy day: especially when periodic breaks can be spent on the San Diego waterfront. On the first full...

A time for sun and scripture

If you want to have a large convention in late November, when much of the nation is falling to the siege of winter, San Diego is the place to do it. Thousands of academics in the fields of religion and Bible have gathered here for the annual meetings of the Society of...