Good afternoon, Onscript fans, or morning or evening, wherever you are.

I've just gotten back from the Society for Biblical Literature and the American Academy

of Religion's annual meeting in San Diego.

And I did some recording, just some hit-and-run interviews with scholars and friends to give

those of you who don't go to SBL or AAR or go to any

of these academic conferences to kind of give you a flavor of what people do, how they, how they

act, what they're interested in. One thing that you'll notice that comes up over and over again

is that a lot of people don't go to the paper

sessions. And so I'm not sure if I just caught everybody on an off year where a bunch of people

weren't going to the paper sessions or if that's a more general habit. But I know I'm making it

a habit of mine starting next year to attend schedule in paper sessions first, go listen to papers, and then

kind of maybe make my meetings secondary because I think my meetings have become a little bit

too onerous these last few annual meetings. But anyways, these are just a lot of people I

encountered either at receptions or in the book stalls just wandering around and I would stop

them and just ask them a few questions. So I hope you enjoy and you should hear some familiar voices in here as well. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane.

I'm here in the book hall with Mark Cortez, a theologian at the Whetton School of Theology looks like.

Oh, Wheaton.

Wheaton.

Yeah, there's an A in there.

Okay, yeah.

Wheaton.

And so how's your SBL been so far?

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