Early Morning Acquisitions

This morning, Archibald Library at Briercrest College & Seminary is holding a used book sale. I got in there at 8:02am, and already there were more than 20 people skimming the racks. I walked away with a few good titles, such as The Unaborted Socrates (Peter Kreeft), The Christian Educator's Handbook on Teaching (Gangel & Hendricks), and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (W. S. LaSor). My favourite is definitely Reverend S. R. Driver's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy. It's a 1909 edition, originally published in 1902. Driver is one of the bigwigs who put together BDB ("Brown-Driver-Briggs"), a standard Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament, so you know Rev. Driver knows his stuff. I figure a 2nd edition is pretty good. It's in need of delicate care, and that it will most certainly receive on my shelf!

Exegetical Adventures

The past few weeks, I've had the pleasure of helping out some promising, young Greek exegetes. During my time as a student at Briercrest College, I found there was no task I enjoyed more than a good exegetical paper. It's fun to get buried in good books, and to get lost on journal article hunts, and to have an excuse to read Greek all day long. Now that I've graduated (and am taking very few classes -- just 'interest' stuff now), I've found it to be an even more greatly enjoyable task to turn around and help younger Greek students with their exegetical pursuits. Maybe this sounds like a horrible way to spend time to some people... but I've had a lot of fun spending some hours with a handful of Greek students who were in the midst of writing their very first exegetical papers. (That is a very special time!) It was fun to show them how to make good use of lexicons, grammars, theological dictionaries, and divinely-provisioned software like Bibleworks. Somehow I get a big kick out of all this. Helping hungry minds discover the fun in exegesis is like the can of spinach to this Pop-Eye. Maybe one day I can even be paid to do this!

Out with the Old and In with the... Older

Tax time is happy time for Jenn and I this year. Since we have so much back-logged tuition, we probably won't have to pay the government for many tax years to come. And so this year, we decided to have mercy on our little car that has served me so well since 2003. It's a little white, 4-door, 1992 Chevy Cavalier. I've put plenty of kms on it (and plenty of money into it...). It has been our faithful BA-mobile, but it's time for it to hang up the skates and settle in someone else's pasture.

To our delight, we happened upon a "new" vehicle that will soon be ours. It is in great condition, and has less than 100,000 km on it! And, in a way, it is a bit of a shout out to our old Cavalier. The new car is white, has four doors, and is a Chevy Cavalier hailing from 1990! Two years older, but so much newer!

All we have to wait for now is the big tax-time pay day!

New Pictures

Hello random blog-readers!

This is just a short note to say we've added lots of pictures for you to tide you over until we actually spend time on a new post.

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Enjoy!

Luke and Jenn