The Statistical Case for the Identity of the "Jesus Family Tomb"

I wish to preface my remarks here by making clear that I am not a trained statistician and my concerns about the way that the statistical te...

Christianity Today on the "Jesus Family Tomb"

Christianity Today has a useful post on the Talpiot tomb story: Remains of the Day Scholars dismiss filmmakers' assertions that Jesus a...

Biblical Studies Carnival XV

Biblical Studies Carnival XV is now available on Charles Halton's Awilum.com blog, and it is dedicated to the memory of Bruce Metzger....

Travel Diary 2: Arrival in Baltimore

I had a most enjoyable flight, that ideal combination of reading, thinking and sleeping. I sketched out the plan for my next book and had t...

DNA and the "Jesus family tomb"

Over on Higgaion , Chris Heard ( The Talpiot/Jesus Tomb: Point and Counterpoint, Item 1 ) has begun what promises to be an excellent series ...

Travel Diary 1: On the way to Baltimore

It's a while since I have had a travel diary on the blog, but I have a brief one over the next day or so because I am on the way to the ...

Ben Witherington III on the "Jesus family tomb"

There is now a more official / polished version of Ben Witherington III's Blog Post on the Jesus family tomb from Monday over on Belief...

Mariamne and the "Jesus Family Tomb"

One of the claims made in the current Jesus Family Tomb publicity is that there is something distinctive about the name Mariamne that is fo...

The Beatles and the Jesus Family Tomb

While watching yesterday's press conference on the "Jesus Family Tomb" (on-line on the Discovery Channel Website , bottom left...

"Jesus' family tomb" and the James Ossuary

For my blog posts on this topic, hit the Talpiot Tomb label. This morning I would like to mention a couple of interesting observations mad...

Blogging the "Jesus' Family Tomb": the story so far

Over on Codex Blogspot , Tyler Williams has an excellent round-up post on the reactions to the "Jesus' Family Tomb" story so f...

"Jesus' family tomb": how blogging helps

Monday is a heavy teaching day for me and it is rare that I can find a moment to blog during the day, but luckily no one has come along to m...

"The Tomb That Dare not speak its name"

That was the headline on the front page of The Sunday Times News Review in the UK, 31 March 1996. The story created a little stir, but i...

What is the Purpose of Thomas?

Since Stephen Carlson initiated a thread on the GThomas e-list the other day on Why Was Thomas Written? , I have been thinking a lot about ...

How was Thomas Written?

On The Forbidden Gospels Blog , April DeConick offers her thoughts on How was the Gospel of Thomas Written? , partly in response to recent ...

E. P. Sanders in Texas

Thanks to Mikeal Parsons for pointing out that Ed Sanders will be lecturing next week in Texas, first at Baylor University (see PDF flier be...

The disciples writing the Gospels

Always hoped that I'd be an apostle Knew that I could make it if I tried Then when we retire we can write the Gospels So they'll all...

New Electronic Edition of the Protevangelium Iacobi

Over on the University of Birmingham's ITSEE pages ( news ), there is a new Electronic Edition of the Protevangelium Iacobi (Infancy Go...

Formatting problem fixed

Gary Greenberg pointed out to me that this blog had some problems in some browsers. Specifically, the side bar was not rendering properly. ...

The Missing Middle in Thomas Synoptic Comparisons

There is a curious feature about several of the parallels between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics. On at least four occasions where...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature on the NT: Tomas Bokedal The Scriptures and the Lord: Formation and Significance of the Ch...

Apocalypse of Peter on-line

A couple of year's ago ( Apocalypse of Peter on-line ), I transcribed and uploaded the Greek text of the Apocalypse of Peter from Lic. ...

The Future of the New Testament Gateway

On Codex Blogspot , Religious Studies Review: Religion and the Internet , and now on Sansblogue , Online Biblical Scholarship , there is a d...

Promotion and Tenure Criteria for New Media

Some of those brave pioneers who have celebrated what the internet has to offer the experience of university teaching, and who have looked t...

James Robinson on the Jesus of Q

Latest from Augsburg Fortress, and on a topic that is a particular favourite of mine: Who was Jesus, really? ...

More on Metzger

Evangelical Textual Criticism is collecting tributes to Bruce Metzger , so far Iain Torrance , Princeton Theological Seminary and Mike Hol...

Ben Sira and Luke

Over on Scripta de Divinis , Tim Brookins has an introductory post on Ben Sira, including some NT parallels. One of the most remarkable par...

Over use of "precisely"

My contribution to the blogger-cooler discussion of Pet Peeves in the use of language features some easy targets. It seems I am not the on...

Pet Peeves

On Blue Cord , Kevin Wilson has a great list of pet peeves, following Chris Heard's lead on Higgaion . Well, isn't this what bloggi...

Bruce Metzger

On Evangelical Textual Criticism , P. J. Williams passes on the sad news of the death of Bruce Metzger yesterday. On the Novum Testamentum ...

All Things Considered on Lampeter

One of my regular BBC podcasts is BBC Wales's weekly religion programme called All Things Considered . This week's episode was who...

JETS latest

The December 2006 issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theology Society , which has free for all access over on FindArticles, is now avai...

Life of Brian: The Musical Latest

Variety has the latest on Not the Messiah : 'Messiah' in Idle hands 'Spamalot' creator announces next project By RICHARD O...

István Czachesz URL Update

I've adjusted the URL of Apostolic Commission Narratives in the Canonical and Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles by István Czachesz on my ...

Historical Jesus articles update

A couple of updates on my Historical Jesus: Articles page : revised URL for Robert Miller's Jesus Seminar and Its Critics and the addi...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literatue under the NT and related heading: Thomas Hieke and Tobias Nicklas "Die Worte der Proph...

Journals page update

I have updated the New Testament Gateway: Journals page, with an adjusted URL for Bibliotheca Sacra , with thanks to Tommy Wasserman for po...

The Synoptic Problem in Eight Easy Steps

(a) The Synoptic Gospels are so similar in order and wording that there must be some kind of literary link between them. (b) Mark is consist...

Did Paul discourage Jewish Christians from keeping the Law?

Over on Euangelion , in a post headed Paul, the Law and the Jews , Michael Bird asks the question, "Did Paul expect Jewish Christians t...