Benefactor Citation for Fr. Vincent Fecher

Arnoldus Library Academic Paper Award (ALAP Award)

The Arnoldus Library is giving an award, the Arnoldus Library Academic Paper Award (ALAP Award). The ALAP Award comprises a plaque of recognition from Divine Word Seminary and a cash honorarium of P5,000.00 from an anonymous donor coursed through Fr. Dominador Flores, our SVD missionary in Australia.

The award will be presented at the Graduation Ceremonies on March 26, 2011 to the student who has written the best academic paper (term paper or synthesis paper) for the school year 2010-2011 as determined by an Award Committee chaired by Fr. Randolf Flores, SVD.

The aim of the award is both to reward excellence and to encourage students to write academic papers with high quality.

Who is eligible?
• A bona-fide student of Divine Word Seminary who has submitted his or her academic paper on time to the Dean’s Office and whose grade given by the moderator is not lower than 95%.
o The M.A. thesis is not covered by the ALAP Award.
o Academic paper means the annual term paper or the synthesis paper only.


Procedure:
• The chairperson of the board of judges will check over the academic papers submitted at the Dean’s Office. He will then select three potential winners from which the Award Committee will choose the best. The criteria of the short list would be:
o (1) the moderator’s grade
o (2) the form and style
             footnotes, bibliography, English, and the like
o (3) content
             the novelty of the study
             the use of sources
             the flow of the arguments
o (4) effective Conclusion
             not just a simple summary
             but an articulation of what the readers can learn from the paper.

What must the student do?
• To see to it that at the Dean’s Office his or her academic paper has been given a grade by the moderator.
• Deadline for the short list: March 21, 2011 before 5:00 p.m.

Arnoldus Library Annual Report School Year 2010-2011

Click here to read the Annual Report for School Year 2010-2011

Jan Alberto Soggin (10 March 1926 – 27 October 2010)

Professor Soggin at the Burkitt Awards

While I was preparing this afternoon a lesson on the Persian Period for the second semester course on Wisdom Literature, I came upon the book of Professor Jan Alberto Soggin, Introduction to the History of Israel and Judah ( 2nd ed., Trinity Press International, 1993; there is a 3rd ed., SCM,. 1999).

I think the book offers a clear, balanced and judicious presentation of the subject. Professor Soggin was a visiting professor of the Old Testament in the Biblicum (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome) when I was student there from 1995-1999.

Curious if he has new books in English that Arnoldus Library does not yet have, I googled his name and found out that he died just very recently on Oct. 27, 2010 in Rome after a prolonged illness. He was 84.

Please click on here for the write up on him when received the Burkitt Medal from the British Academy.

Click here for a review of his last book in English, Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals (transl. John Bowden, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2001).

Click also here to read in Google Books one of his most popular books, Introduction to the Old Testament

Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010)

Raimon Panikkar, 'apostle of inter-faith dialogue,' dies

Featured Book of the Week - Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend by Bart D. Ehrman

Title: Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195300130
Reviewed by Carlito D. Reyes in Diwa: Studies in Philosophy and Theology 32 (2007), pp.110-118.

 --C. D. Reyes is a priest of the Diocese of Pasig (Manila) and taught New Testament at the Divine Word Seminary and Theology at the Ateneo de Manila University. He holds an M.A. and Licentiate from the Ateneo and Loyola School of Theology respectively where is also a PhD and SThD candidate. He serves as pastor of the Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, U.K.

CLICK HERE for the REVIEW.

Featured Book of the Week: Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation by Michael J. Gorman (editor)

MICHAEL J. GORMAN, (ed.), Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2005). Pp. xvi + 288. $ 19.95.

Reviewed by Fr. Carlito Reyes in Diwa 32 (2007): 103-109. Click here to read the Review of Gorman.