Of course, with most of the world’s biblical scholars converging on New Orleans in 10 days or so, there is a great concern for security. What with Brill discounting the prices of its books to only 4 times their value and the ever present danger of the SBL running out of complementary totebags, there is the threat of riot, wreck and ruin!
Imagine a stampede of angry deuteronomist hunters? A brawl over the existence of Q (i.e., the lack thereof), or, worst yet, not finding seat in the nearest bar (EEK!). It could be the end of civilization as we know it.
BUT REST ASSURED, DEAR HERMENEUTICISTS, EXEGETES, EXPLICATORS, AND THEORIZORS AND DECONSTRUCTORISMISTS!
All is in good hands. Here is a video of Scott Bailey and Joel Watts in an intensive training exercise as volunteer members of the SBL National Meeting Guard.
Don’t you feel so much safer?
I should add that it was my sneaky brother Ken who tracked down this ABOVE TOP SECRET video and sent it to me.
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November 11, 2009 at 7:52 pm
i certainly feel better
November 11, 2009 at 8:12 pm
[...] HT [...]
November 11, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Does this mean that I can keep the dilettantes out?
November 11, 2009 at 8:34 pm
You “may”. “Can” is a different thing all together!
November 11, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Are you sure you feel safer? That looked like the little brother in the lead!
November 12, 2009 at 5:30 am
lol
November 12, 2009 at 10:26 am
The sad part is that while at one time I was a professional athlete, now, off of the ice, I am an absolute klutz.
So unfortunately, yeah, that could be me.