I have just written a speech for ETC blogdinner tonight in Boston, when we will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of this blog and we will have a big anniversaryquiz where guests can win fine bookprices.
Here are a few random images from past blogdinners for the sake of pure nostalgia. I cannot remember when exactly we had our first blogdinner, but I said we broke a new record in New Orleans 2009 with 35 participants so that was not the first. The first photo shows Peter Head preparing his legendary blogdinner address – spiritual, witty and starting out from a Greek text read from his well-worn Novum Testamentum Graece. Normally, they were written a few minutes before delivery, and sometimes, I think, on a handkerchief (that might be my improvement of a good story).
ETC blogdinner, New Orleans 2009
Thanks Tommy, On the early history of the dinner: There was a lunch in 2007 (San Diego), and then a dinner in 2008 (Boston) on the Monday (I think we were Monday for a couple of years before settling on the Sunday). On the Monday my notes say: "I managed to find the time to check out some restaurants and booked a really good place with a quite area for a large gathering. Fourteen people came, and had a great dinner, a time of fellowship, and some vigorous discussion."
ReplyDeleteThe dinner in 2008 is referred to on the blog here: https://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2008/11/home-from-sbl.html
For reference, we had about 60 last night.
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