Security at the SBL. Just trust Scott and Joel

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.

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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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