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David M. Miller
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Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism, Briercrest College & Seminary
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Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The Question All Colleges Should Ask Themselves About AI
How far are they willing to go to limit its harms?
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September 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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An AI-Free Zone
When my students log-in to their course LMS this semester, they will encounter this warning: This course is an AI-Free Zone : Because I...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Baby Steps: On Reading through the Bible in Hebrew and Greek
I first read through the Torah in Hebrew in 2001 (or thereabouts) thanks to my affiliation with the Bat Qol Institute and its encouragement...
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July 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.” - Jennifer Frey www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education
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July 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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More on AI, Student Learning and Human Flourishing
One of the great things about last semester’s sabbatical is that I didn’t have to think about making my assignments harder to outsource to ...
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June 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A semester in Scripture: Briercrest College launches first-ever term abroad
“Being uprooted from contexts that are familiar to us often helps prepare us to think about the world differently,” said Dr. Wes Olmstead, Henry Hildebrand Professor of the New Testament at Briercrest...
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May 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Recommended Reading on Israel, Palestine, and the War on Gaza
Two novels shaped my earliest thinking about the formation of the state of Israel. I read James Michener’s The Source (Random House, 1965) ...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Who knew that the best way to type Latin long vowels with macrons on Windows is to install the New Zealand Maori keyboard?
May 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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On Reading Biblical Hebrew: Advice for Beginners
My advice for students with a year of Biblical Hebrew under their belts who want to launch out on their own: (1) Read & listen through the ...
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April 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Early Judaism Video Lecture: From Alexander to Antiochus IV
This video, the fourth in a series of lectures I recorded in the fall of 2020, offers a big picture overview of Greek rule in Judaea from th...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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On Creativity, ChatGPT, and Doing Your Chores
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I recently attended a virtual presentation by Bart Caylor  on “Leveraging AI for Your Marketing and Rec...
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April 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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On Leisure
Alan Jacobs : “I think we’re living in the aftermath of a slow-motion cultural and moral apocalypse. I really do. I’m trying to keep some be...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Early Judaism Video Lectures
Five years ago, the college where I teach responded to the Covid pandemic by radically altering our regular semester schedule . To ensure f...
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March 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Remembering Carl Conrad
Members of the B-Greek forum have been posting tributes in memory of Carl Conrad , the forum's long-time co-moderator, who passed away on ...
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March 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Gary Anderson on Hebrew as the language of Jesus
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Gary Anderson on Hebrew as the Language of Jesus
Reviewing the endnotes to Gary Anderson’s impressive history of sin (!), I came across this gem on New Testament scholars, Modern Hebrew an...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A Whole Canadian
Some 40 years ago I announced to an auditorium full of students at the American missionary boarding school I was attending that “I am a who...
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February 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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On Memorizing the (Whole) Bible
When I read Ruth in Hebrew I can still hear my first Hebrew teacher, Dennis Magary , declaiming the text. In class, when students would ask ...
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January 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A Timely Movie
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) - England Needs an Heir Scene (1/10) | Movieclips
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January 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Peter Brown and Learning Languages
Interviews with and bios of Peter Brown routinely mention his extraordinary facility with languages ancient and modern. For example: Thoma...
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January 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Now, where was I?
I submitted grades for my fourth and final fall semester course on December 31, just before year’s end and the start of a six-month sabbatic...
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January 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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A 2024 Reading Retrospective
I logged 36 completed books in 2024, my highest tally in six years of Reading Retrospectives . Sixteen of them were audiobooks—also a record...
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January 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Charlotte Brontë and Gabriel Wyner on Pronunciation and Efficient Language Learning
Notice the emphasis on (1) conversation, (2) memorizing texts not just isolated vocabulary, and (3) pronunciation in this passage from Charl...
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July 7, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Reading the Bible after the Holocaust
I consumed a steady diet of (audio)-books about the Holocaust this spring, including Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of t...
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June 23, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Study Abroad in Cyprus! | Briercrest Semester-Long Greek Intensive Program
Briercrest blazes a trail with the announcement of its inaugural semester-long Greek intensive program, taking place in Cyprus's rich cultural landscape. The...
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