{"id":1204,"date":"2014-12-07T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2014-12-07T16:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T22:12:12","slug":"divining-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/divining-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Divining Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeff Childers, the Carmichael-Walling Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the Graduate School of Theology at ACU, has been invited to lecture in Norway in December 2014. A select group of scholars from various parts of the world will gather as guests of the Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo in a conference entitled,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mf.no\/en\/about-mf\/events\/bible-notepad\" target=\"_blank\">The Bible as Notepad<\/a>. This conference focuses on the ways in which ancient Bibles were read, edited, and marked up by actual users over the centuries. 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