Tag: Academia | Ploni Almoni

Mormonism and the Academy: An Interview with Terryl Givens

September 4, 2017March 24, 2014

The new issue of the Student Review has been printed. For this issue I interviewed none other than Terryl Givens on his thoughts concerning the academic discipline of Mormon Studies cropping up at a number of institutes of higher education. You can read it on pages 8 and 10. Also, this is really embarrassing, but … Read more

Alexandrian Academia

August 8, 2017February 4, 2014

A map of ancient Alexandria. Concerning the intellectual culture of ancient Alexandria, Peter Green wryly observes the following. Timon of Philus, a bitter lampoonist . . . wrote of Ptolemy’s Alexandrian think tank: “In the polyglot land of Egypt many now find pasturage as endowed scribblers, endlessly quarreling in the Muses’ birdcage.” . . . … Read more