New Testament Studies latest (53/3), and free access to 53/1

The July issue of New Testament Studies is now available, subscribers and subscribing institutions only, but abstracts free for all: N...

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism

Matthew Brook O'Donnell reminded me about blogging this some time ago, and then the RSS feed from the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianit...

Deirdre Good on Jesus' (lack of ) family values

Religious Intelligence report on biblioblogger Deirdre Good's new book on Jesus' Family Values : New book by Anglican scholar clai...

Doctor Who, Human Nature and Kenosis

Regular readers will know that it is rare for me to blog on items of outside interest, all the many non-academic interests that make life so...

Poll on Synoptic Problem

Don't forget to vote for the best solution to the Synoptic Problem (which is called "the Farrer Theory") over on Brandon Wason...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading. Nothing from me this time. Eve-Marie Becker Das Marku...

Perrin Review Complete

I have now finished my lengthy rolling post offering my reflections on Nick Perrin's Thomas, the Other Gospel . It is at the same URL, ...

Nicholas Perrin, Thomas: The Other Gospel: Reflections

Nicholas Perrin, Thomas, the Other Gospel has recently appeared in the UK and is due to be released in the US in October. I would like to ...

Review of Perrin on Thomas

For some reason, my reader does not seem to be picking up the updates to my rolling post on Nick Perrin's Thomas, the Other Gospel , so ...

Reginald Fuller Reflections

The Salisbury Journal has some reflections on the life of Reginald Fuller today: Reginald Fuller - A theologian of stature Jeremy Davies

What did the "lilies of the field" look like?

When Jesus says "Consider the lilies of the field . . ." (Matt. 6.28 // Luke 12.27 // Thomas 36), how do you imagine those "l...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

The latest reviews have been added to the SBL Review of Biblical Literature and include the following under the NT and related heading, with...

Synoptic Project Website

Talking about Synopses, and especially colouring Synopses ( Reflections on the Synopsis ) reminded me that I needed to add a link to Ben Sm...

Reflections on the Synopsis

On Euangelion , Michael Bird has a useful Review of the New Edition of Aland's Synopsis of the Four Gospels (when he says "new...

JTS latest

On the Stuff of Earth , Michael Pahl notes the latest Journal of Theological Studies : Journal of Theological Studies 58/1 (April 2007)

Vermes on Ratzinger and the Quest

Over on Paleojudaica , Jim Davila points out the following article from yesterday's Times : Jesus of Nazareth The scholar Ratzinger brav...

Gospel of Thomas Online Commentary returns

After a hiatus of some months, Peter Kirby has resurrected his Gospel of Thomas Collected Commentary (announced on the also recently resurr...

Bauckham Collquium Starts Today

The online colloquium with Richard Bauckham starts today over on the Biblical Studies e-list , a day early by my reckoning, but that's w...

Nicholas Perrin, Thomas: The Other Gospel

My copy of Nicholas Perrin, Thomas, the Other Gospel (London: SPCK, 2007) arrived today and I am looking forward to reading it. Although N...

Duke University Religion Dept Blog

It occurred to me yesterday that I couldn't think of any University Religion Departments that have their own blogs, so I have suggested ...

NT Post at St Andrews

Bruce Longenecker asked if I would publicize this very attractive job advertisement. Jim Davila has already posted on it on Paleojudaica , ...

Mary Douglas (1921-2007)

News has broken today in the blogosphere (I first saw it on Awilum.com ) of the death of Mary Douglas, who received her damehood at Bucking...

Blogging to market your book: don't

On Jesus Creed , Scot McKnight has a great post on Blogs: A Word for Authors , with a strong prohibition: "If you have written a book, ...

Report on SEBTS Conference on Mark 16.9-20

Back in April, there was a conference down the road at the Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary on Mark 16.9-20 ( SEBTS Conference on Mark...

British Library Readers Group

On Xtalk this morning, Roger Pearse had an interesting message for users of the British Library, and it is worth sharing here: ------------...

Seven Deadly Sins in Writing

As Loren Rosson notes on The Busybody , several blogs have been reflecting on the good, the bad and the ugly in academic writing, and it has...

New article on the Talpiot Tomb

Over on Deinde , Danny Zacharias draws attention to this new article on the Biblical Archaeology Society website: The Tomb of Jesus? Wrong ...

Trouble at Wycliffe Hall

It is not often that a theological college makes the headlines, but I am sorry to read in tomorrow's Guardian of trouble at Wycliffe Ha...

Logos Lecture: Did Jews in Jesus' Day Expect the Messiah?

Thanks to Jim West for mentioning that I have been invited to speak in the Logos Bible Software Lecture Series . Here is my title, abstrac...

The Fallacy of the Director as Author

I am often struck, when reading academic discussions of cinema, especially by those more accustomed to dealing with authors and texts, of so...

Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination

Thanks to Jeffrey Staley for letting me know about this interesting new book: Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination Movies about the...

Harrington Reviews Jervis

This week's NT related Book Review in America: The National Catholic Weekly is the following: At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in ...

Herod's Tomb: Amateur Video

Since the news broke earlier this week, there has been a lot around on the biblioblogs and elsewhere on the discovery of Herod's Tomb. ...

Journal for the Study of the New Testament latest

The latest JSNT is now available, with abstracts available to all, and full content to subscribers and subscribing institutions. It featur...

Happy Birthday, C. K. Barrett

Over on Dunelm Road , Ben Blackwell notes that CK Barrett Turns 90 and he reports on a fine sounding get together in Durham to celebrate th...

Kernel Thomas

On her ever stimulating Forbidden Gospels blog , April DeConick reflects briefly on a key element in her research on the Gospel of Thomas, a...

Radical Improvement of Blogger

I realize that this post might be tempting fate (but I don't believe in that anyway, so I'll post away) but I must say that I am imp...

Danny Zacharias's Wired Scholar

In the new SBL Forum for May, published today, Danny Zacharias has an excellent article worthy of special mention: The Wired Scholar: Five ...

Teaching a Course on Paul

Over on Euangelion , Joel Willitts has an interesting enquiry-style post on Teaching a Course on Paul . To me, one of the great benefits of...

NT Greek in St Petersburg

This is in from Jenny Read-Heimerdinger: --------------- Course in New Testament Greek Beyond the Basics ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 7-15 Septembe...

Plumley Coptic Grammar

Paterson Brown emails to make the following announcement: After a half-year of most pleasurable work and a recent careful proof-read, our on...

Herod's Tomb

The news breaking this afternoon around the blogosphere is that Herod's Tomb has been found by Ehud Netzer: Hebrew University: Herod...