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February 2021

February 19, 2021

There Is No Bible

I make the point regularly that there is no such thing as "the Bible." The...

August 2020

August 10, 2020

Kismet and Canon

A. David Lewis is seeking support for the creation of Kismet, Man of Fate Volume...

August 03, 2020

Gamifying for a Better Fall Semester

Educators have been told by administrators to prepare to be flexible this upcoming academic year....

April 2020

April 23, 2020

Baby Yoda and Biblical Canon

I am delighted that Matthew Korpman has revived his blog, and even more so given...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

Graphic Canon and Chronology

I enjoyed talking with A. David Lewis at ΘeoCon about comic books, graphic novels, and Canon:...

July 2019

July 20, 2019

Fire All Canons!

Having recently finished a draft of a book chapter about canon in Star Wars (both...

May 2019

May 04, 2019

Canon #CFP x2 (Bible and Beyond)

Two calls for papers and several other items related to canon came to my attention...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Anthony Le Donne: Gods of Thrones, Canon, and More

Anthony Le Donne returned to the ReligionProf podcast to talk about his multivolume book project,...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

Canonology

Having invented a game called Canon: The Card Game, I'm inevitably going to keep returning...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Wibbly Wobbly Canony Wanony

I was delightfully amused to learn about the creative way that Steven Moffatt found to...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

Canon and Nitpickery in Star Trek Fandom and Other Religions

Recently, Adam Kotsko blogged about Star Trek and canon (a subject of ongoing interest of...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Digital Humanities, Games, and Forgeries at #AARSBL17

Richard Bautch presented first, and was the first of two papers related to games -...

November 01, 2017

Whovian Reformation and Holofernes’ Tweets

A recent article on IO9 asked what the most frustrating revision to canon was in...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Harry Potter in the Biblical Studies Classroom

Krista Dalton wrote an article for Ancient Jew Review about using Harry Potter to explore...

August 15, 2017

About Canon: The Card Game

I hope that readers of this blog have all seen Joseph Hartropp's article about Canon:...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Canon’s Blurry Edges

First, I hope you all saw that Canon: The Card Game was featured in the...

July 10, 2017

New Canon Deck Available: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

A while back, Jim Davila asked whether the card game included certain extracanonical Jewish texts, and...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Forgery, Canon, and Digital Humanities at #AARSBL17

The Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion conferences in November have their...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Why Canon the Card Game is Necessary

A recent post on the blog "History for Atheists" (which critiqued the meme above) highlights the...

May 08, 2017

Gamification in Higher Education (Including Canon: The Card Game) at Gen Con 2017

I am delighted to announce that I will be presenting at Gen Con's Trade Day...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Canon and AARCon at #aarsbl17

April 29th is apparently Tabletop Day, and so this seems as good a time as...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

Canon in the UK

Thanks to Meredith Warren for introducing students in Sheffield, England to Canon: The Card Game!...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Changing Canons: Bible, Star Wars, Star Trek, and Harry Potter

The subject of canon in sci-fi and Biblical studies isn't just something I've created a...

September 13, 2016

Augmented Reality Electronic Canon Game?

The Canon card game is barely released, and Jim Davila is already suggesting that there...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Playing Canon in Class

Canon: The Card Game has gone from being an idea, to a clear concept, to...

August 26, 2016

The Canon Card Game Exists!

About a year ago I mentioned my interest in creating a game that would illustrate...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

The Bible Beyond the Bible:From Apocrypha to Anime

HT to Deane Galbraith for drawing attention to this lecture by Annette Yoshiko Reed. As...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

Reading the Bible in Machete Order

On the first day of my class on the Bible, I ask students what order...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Making the Canon Game

When Mike Kok shared a classroom handout which included the criteria for inclusion in the New...

November 21, 2015

Metacriticism of Biblical Scholarship at #AARSBL on Saturday Afternoon

This session focused on canon and fan fiction, making comparisons between science fiction and other...

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