Dru Johnson
@drujohnson.com
Sr Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, U of Oxford
Dir, Center for HebraicThought.org
Dir, Abrahamic Theistic Origins Project
Adjunct, Hope College
Co-host, OnScript || OnScript.study
My books at druJohnson.com/page/
Dir, Center for HebraicThought.org
Dir, Abrahamic Theistic Origins Project
Adjunct, Hope College
Co-host, OnScript || OnScript.study
My books at druJohnson.com/page/
Book launch, Holland, MI, Nov 3
(RSVP at this link: www.facebook.com/events/15901...)
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October 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Book launch, Holland, MI, Nov 3
(RSVP at this link: www.facebook.com/events/15901...)
(RSVP at this link: www.facebook.com/events/15901...)
Join our Hebraic Thought Community over on Facebook and then join us on Zoom in about 20 minutes for the public reading of Scripture (listening really).
LINK: bit.ly/3ZfDxDJ
LINK: bit.ly/3ZfDxDJ
June 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Join our Hebraic Thought Community over on Facebook and then join us on Zoom in about 20 minutes for the public reading of Scripture (listening really).
LINK: bit.ly/3ZfDxDJ
LINK: bit.ly/3ZfDxDJ
One WEEK FROM TODAY! Hope family and friends can stop by and wish the old man a happy 80th!
April 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
One WEEK FROM TODAY! Hope family and friends can stop by and wish the old man a happy 80th!
The coming issue of Philosophia Christi contains a symposium on my Cambridge University Press book with Esther Lightcap Meek, Michael W. Austin, Dolores Griffin Morris, and Ryan Mullins. What an ensemble!
March 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The coming issue of Philosophia Christi contains a symposium on my Cambridge University Press book with Esther Lightcap Meek, Michael W. Austin, Dolores Griffin Morris, and Ryan Mullins. What an ensemble!
You can now pre-order my book: UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL LAW (if you are so inclined).
bakeracademic.com/p/Understand...
bakeracademic.com/p/Understand...
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You can now pre-order my book: UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL LAW (if you are so inclined).
bakeracademic.com/p/Understand...
bakeracademic.com/p/Understand...
And THIS is exactly why I struggled in the UK for the first year (not with my own supervisor). Anglophilic postgrads be warned!
January 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
And THIS is exactly why I struggled in the UK for the first year (not with my own supervisor). Anglophilic postgrads be warned!
You gotta respect an English manor estate that allows visitors, just not dogs or children.
January 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
You gotta respect an English manor estate that allows visitors, just not dogs or children.
Congrats to Heiko Schulz and Jean Pierre-Fortin on this @degruyterbrill.bsky.social volume! It's been a long time coming. I never feel more out of my league than when writing on this topic.
January 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Congrats to Heiko Schulz and Jean Pierre-Fortin on this @degruyterbrill.bsky.social volume! It's been a long time coming. I never feel more out of my league than when writing on this topic.
IDK what's going on, but my @cambridgeup.bsky.social
book from 2021 has been selling really well the last month (This is Amazon's "religious studies" rank.
Someone using it as a course text????
book from 2021 has been selling really well the last month (This is Amazon's "religious studies" rank.
Someone using it as a course text????
January 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
IDK what's going on, but my @cambridgeup.bsky.social
book from 2021 has been selling really well the last month (This is Amazon's "religious studies" rank.
Someone using it as a course text????
book from 2021 has been selling really well the last month (This is Amazon's "religious studies" rank.
Someone using it as a course text????
If you listen to the OnScript Podcast, then you know that we ask every scholar we interview: "What was the most influential books in biblical studies in the last 50 years?"
The work of Richard Hays, may his memory be blessed, was one of the most cited answers.
The work of Richard Hays, may his memory be blessed, was one of the most cited answers.
January 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you listen to the OnScript Podcast, then you know that we ask every scholar we interview: "What was the most influential books in biblical studies in the last 50 years?"
The work of Richard Hays, may his memory be blessed, was one of the most cited answers.
The work of Richard Hays, may his memory be blessed, was one of the most cited answers.
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY to my dad. He's been through some things, but has always been a faithful servant of God throughout. He has been a fountain of wisdom for me & everyone around him. And now, he'll officially be a great-grandfather any day now. HERE'S TO 80 MORE!
January 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY to my dad. He's been through some things, but has always been a faithful servant of God throughout. He has been a fountain of wisdom for me & everyone around him. And now, he'll officially be a great-grandfather any day now. HERE'S TO 80 MORE!
The writer of "O Holy Night" gets it:
“His law is love and His gospel peace”
“His law is love and His gospel peace”
December 23, 2024 at 2:55 PM
The writer of "O Holy Night" gets it:
“His law is love and His gospel peace”
“His law is love and His gospel peace”
Although it won't be out until Oct 2025, the book is done and in the long process of publication with Baker Academic. Here's the proposed cover art sing the painting I suggested (Woohoo!).
December 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Although it won't be out until Oct 2025, the book is done and in the long process of publication with Baker Academic. Here's the proposed cover art sing the painting I suggested (Woohoo!).
If you know any scientists (evolutionary espeically), theologians/philosophers, or Scripture scholars in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim traditions who want to co-learn across disciplines and faiths, send me names!
See link for (a few) more details.
www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/abrahamic-th...
See link for (a few) more details.
www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/abrahamic-th...
December 13, 2024 at 5:04 PM
If you know any scientists (evolutionary espeically), theologians/philosophers, or Scripture scholars in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim traditions who want to co-learn across disciplines and faiths, send me names!
See link for (a few) more details.
www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/abrahamic-th...
See link for (a few) more details.
www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/abrahamic-th...
Just got my copy of the new @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social volume ANCIENT EPISTEMOLOGIES. Check out the selection of essays.
Open access version available here:
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/anci...
Open access version available here:
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/anci...
December 11, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Just got my copy of the new @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social volume ANCIENT EPISTEMOLOGIES. Check out the selection of essays.
Open access version available here:
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/anci...
Open access version available here:
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/anci...
I'm still hung up on the fact that all of these movies came out in 1999.
December 4, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I'm still hung up on the fact that all of these movies came out in 1999.
An infinitely quotable book:
"Some of these [college sports] programs might just as naturally be attached to meat-packing plants as to universities."
—Cornelius Plantinga, NOT THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
"Some of these [college sports] programs might just as naturally be attached to meat-packing plants as to universities."
—Cornelius Plantinga, NOT THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
December 2, 2024 at 9:49 PM
An infinitely quotable book:
"Some of these [college sports] programs might just as naturally be attached to meat-packing plants as to universities."
—Cornelius Plantinga, NOT THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
"Some of these [college sports] programs might just as naturally be attached to meat-packing plants as to universities."
—Cornelius Plantinga, NOT THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
5) The tiny mountain in the middle of the desert (east of San Diego) I spent a month or two on when I was in the military.
November 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
5) The tiny mountain in the middle of the desert (east of San Diego) I spent a month or two on when I was in the military.
Soc. of Biblical Literature photo dump:
1) The Mohr Siebeck that came from workshops in Aarhus and Wuppertal.
2) The OnScript co-host breckie.
3) The San Diego convention center.
4) Jay Sklar and Tyran Laws responding on Leviticus.
1) The Mohr Siebeck that came from workshops in Aarhus and Wuppertal.
2) The OnScript co-host breckie.
3) The San Diego convention center.
4) Jay Sklar and Tyran Laws responding on Leviticus.
November 28, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Soc. of Biblical Literature photo dump:
1) The Mohr Siebeck that came from workshops in Aarhus and Wuppertal.
2) The OnScript co-host breckie.
3) The San Diego convention center.
4) Jay Sklar and Tyran Laws responding on Leviticus.
1) The Mohr Siebeck that came from workshops in Aarhus and Wuppertal.
2) The OnScript co-host breckie.
3) The San Diego convention center.
4) Jay Sklar and Tyran Laws responding on Leviticus.
If you see this dufus wandering the book hall at SBLAAR, point him to your favorite book/author!
November 21, 2024 at 9:24 PM
If you see this dufus wandering the book hall at SBLAAR, point him to your favorite book/author!
Sat morning IBR/SBL: I'll be arguing that we should all be listening to Scripture and stop reading it . . . or something like that.
November 21, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Sat morning IBR/SBL: I'll be arguing that we should all be listening to Scripture and stop reading it . . . or something like that.
This has been a massively rewarding/challenging semester. I feel privileged that Hope College & Western Theological Seminary let me join in their work.
November 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
This has been a massively rewarding/challenging semester. I feel privileged that Hope College & Western Theological Seminary let me join in their work.
Just found out that my next book—UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL LAW—will be my 1st book ever to not use cities in the footnotes according to the new Chicago style citations!
It's a new day! 🙌🙌🙌
It's a new day! 🙌🙌🙌
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Just found out that my next book—UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL LAW—will be my 1st book ever to not use cities in the footnotes according to the new Chicago style citations!
It's a new day! 🙌🙌🙌
It's a new day! 🙌🙌🙌
He has 2.2 million followers on X. I'm watching him slowly creep to 100 on here. Fascinating dynamics.
November 19, 2024 at 7:10 PM
He has 2.2 million followers on X. I'm watching him slowly creep to 100 on here. Fascinating dynamics.
Voting closes TOMORROW. If you vote, you're registered for a drawing to win ALL THE BOOKS in the contest.
Honestly, I just want to beat Matthew Barrett.
www.ivpress.com/pages/2024-r...
Honestly, I just want to beat Matthew Barrett.
www.ivpress.com/pages/2024-r...
November 19, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Voting closes TOMORROW. If you vote, you're registered for a drawing to win ALL THE BOOKS in the contest.
Honestly, I just want to beat Matthew Barrett.
www.ivpress.com/pages/2024-r...
Honestly, I just want to beat Matthew Barrett.
www.ivpress.com/pages/2024-r...