Who is Dan Belnap?
Don't feel too bad. There is at least one of his fellow faculty members who doesn't know who he is.
But I'm pretty sure the BS (Biblical Studies, is that abbreviation accidental? I have no definitive answer for that; however, our club at BYU was abbreviated thusly: SANE [Students of the Ancient Near East]) graduate students and PhD's on the Bloggernacle know who he is.
I've left the Bloggernacle behind, mostly.
I think my departure coincided with my departure from Saturn, which also coincidentally (not so much really) coincided with the end of my days sitting in front of an internet-limited-but-blogs-still-allowable-computer all day.
He, Dan Belnap that is (this is all off the top of my head), is an assistant professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU.
His PhD is in Near Eastern Languages, University of Chicago. His dissertation was about the ritual use of liquids in the Old Testament and other ancient Semitic cultures (Ugaritic and others). ... I think.
I know he has at least three children. He taught Seminary for a while.
He is an expert on the seating postures of Latter-day Saint men and boys.
He prefers large print scriptures, not a quad but separate Bible and Triple Combination.
His class exams offer the students an opportunity to really demonstrate their grasp of the issues in the texts.
Thus we have spilled my memory.
8 years ago
2 comments:
Thanks for the explanation. I have at least one thing in common with him - or maybe half a thing - I prefer a separate Bible and Triple (but not large print).
Expert in the seating habits?
As in, like, he knows exactly when the classic meetinghouse folding chair is going to collapse when leaned back on? Because a lot of people seem to know that when you're the Primary kid who always leans back, but their estimations are often too conservative.
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