Eric McDonnell
@ericmcdonnell.bsky.social
adjunct prof @ emory uni // digital initiatives manager @ society of biblical literature & sbl press // psalms & philology & poetry
True happiness is realizing that with a decent set of glosses you can read Middle English texts pretty clearly without a translation.
May 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
True happiness is realizing that with a decent set of glosses you can read Middle English texts pretty clearly without a translation.
Celebrating the end of the semester with G. M. Hopkins’ celebration of the beauty in overcoming hard things: The glory of the bird who flies straight into the wind, the shine of the rusty plough after colliding with gravel, the bright vermillion glow of a gray fire as it collapses.
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Celebrating the end of the semester with G. M. Hopkins’ celebration of the beauty in overcoming hard things: The glory of the bird who flies straight into the wind, the shine of the rusty plough after colliding with gravel, the bright vermillion glow of a gray fire as it collapses.
Course notes for class this week. A habit of slow, careful reading, the refusal to give in to distraction and instant gratification—in short, philology—is not a bad practice these days
March 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Course notes for class this week. A habit of slow, careful reading, the refusal to give in to distraction and instant gratification—in short, philology—is not a bad practice these days
We keep reading, and it turns out this is something Moses has in common with God. Look at all these sensory verbs: seeing (emphatically!), hearing, knowing.
God and God’s prophet in this story are figures who know how to slow down and pay attention. It’s a skill in short supply these days.
God and God’s prophet in this story are figures who know how to slow down and pay attention. It’s a skill in short supply these days.
February 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We keep reading, and it turns out this is something Moses has in common with God. Look at all these sensory verbs: seeing (emphatically!), hearing, knowing.
God and God’s prophet in this story are figures who know how to slow down and pay attention. It’s a skill in short supply these days.
God and God’s prophet in this story are figures who know how to slow down and pay attention. It’s a skill in short supply these days.
Exod 3 is the reading for class today. I’m always drawn to the description of Moses’s encounter with the burning bush.
It’s off his path! He has to make the decision to turn aside and pay attention. It’s easier to trudge along without looking. But Moses is the kind of person who looks.
It’s off his path! He has to make the decision to turn aside and pay attention. It’s easier to trudge along without looking. But Moses is the kind of person who looks.
February 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exod 3 is the reading for class today. I’m always drawn to the description of Moses’s encounter with the burning bush.
It’s off his path! He has to make the decision to turn aside and pay attention. It’s easier to trudge along without looking. But Moses is the kind of person who looks.
It’s off his path! He has to make the decision to turn aside and pay attention. It’s easier to trudge along without looking. But Moses is the kind of person who looks.
From Ryan Ruby’s poem about poems, Context Collapse.
(Yes, it’s composed in a tone that can only be described as “eager to impress graduate student.” Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it anyways)
(Yes, it’s composed in a tone that can only be described as “eager to impress graduate student.” Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it anyways)
February 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
From Ryan Ruby’s poem about poems, Context Collapse.
(Yes, it’s composed in a tone that can only be described as “eager to impress graduate student.” Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it anyways)
(Yes, it’s composed in a tone that can only be described as “eager to impress graduate student.” Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it anyways)