This past Monday, I started my Advanced Hermeutics class with Dr. Blount.  As this is my third class with Dr. Blount, I knew on the first day we would fill out index cards with our background information, goals for the course, and an interesting fact.  For my intersting fact, I wrote the title of my proposed, though not yet submitted, Master’s thesis.  The title of the thesis is The Modality of the Dean-Head: Why You Never See Dr. Blount, Dr. Klein, and Dr. Wolfe at the Same Place at the Same Time. Normally, Dr. Blount makes witty comments concerning the information presented, that is, he is characteristically… Blount.  However, on my information, he was explicitly mute.  Dr. Blount intentially avoided the opportunity to exploit the information in order not to incriminate himself.  Thus I defend my thesis with an argument from silence.

To make matters worse, last week I met Perry Oakes.  Perry Oakes is a Ph.D. student at SWBTS in Old Testament.  Perry Oakes is Dr. Klein’s graduate assitant, an overzealous term for grader.  On the first day of Hebrew class, Mr. Oakes was sitting at Dr. Klein’s desk.  Mr. Oakes informed the class that Dr. Klein conviently happened to be somewhere on the other side of the world, in the South Pacific.  To the average student, this seems plausible.  The average student, however, has not been informed of the modality of the Dean-Head.  Furthermore, they do not know that Mr. Oakes is Dr. Wolfe’s doppelganger.  When Dr. Klein returned to class this week, I immediately confronted him about Mr. Oakes being Dr. Wolfe’s doppelganger.  Dr. Klein, similiar to his other manifestation Dr. Blount, was at a loss of words.  After he gathered his thoughts, he diverted attention away from the argument by asking, “What is a doppelganger?”

I will continue to investigate the matter indepth this semester, as I have the three manifestations of the Dean-Head for lecture as well as interacting with Dr. Wolfe’s doppelganger.  I will keep you posted.