William Caraher on The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World reflects on the importance of academic blogging, and how it relates to other academic writing.

He makes reference to Why Blog? / Does Blogging Matter? posted on the Ancient World Bloggers Group at the end on May, which refers to many other interesting links and comments.

I’m quoting Charles Halton from awilum.com, who got the quote from a friend – just spreading the good words :

Scholars of Ugaritic and Bible should continue to insist on a rigorous knowledge of primary sources even as the discipline engages recently developed methods. . . . . By the same token, the research of specialists or nonspecialists alike legitimately deserves criticism if it does not exhibit knowledge of primary sources. A field lacking basic professional standards is by definition not professional, and failure to invoke such standards surrenders its identity as an arena for rigorous research. (page 223)

Untold Stories
The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the Twentieth Century

by Mark S. Smith
Hendrickson Publishers, 2001
252 pages, English
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