Rethinking "The Parting of the Ways"

This one looks interesting, in today from Fortress (who also never send me books, by the way, just in case you were wondering): ---- Rethink...

Encouragement to learn Coptic

On the Forbidden Gospels Blog , April DeConick has an excellent call to learn Coptic, which I would like to second. If you are a graduate s...

Vigiliae Christianae latest

There is a new edition of Vigiliae Christianae available to subscribers: Vigiliae Christianae Volume 61, Number 2, 2007 The Admonition to As...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading: Octavian D. Baban On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts: H...

JSNT Latest

The latest issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament is now available to subscribers: ----- Special issue: New Testament Inte...

My new blog

I have decided to experiment with a new blog in addition, of course, to this one, which will remain the same. My new blog will be of intere...

The Wikipedia Story

I mention this since it is an occasional topic of conversation on this blog, and a correspondent mentioned the programme to me the other day...

Liddell and Scott Poetry and Rhymes

Over on Laudator Temporis Acti today, Michael Gilleland has a post on Liddell and Scott , a poem by Thomas Hardy "Liddell and Scott On...

Review of Dungan, Constantine's Bible

The Church Times has a characteristically brief but interesting review of David Dungan's new book on Constantine's Bible : Chosen r...

On Faith latest: Wright and Crossan

Tom Wright and John Dominic Crossan weigh in again in the latest of the On Faith column from The Washington Post and Newsweek , both on th...

Birger Pearson, Ancient Gnosticism

Latest from Fortress: --- Fortress Press Releases Ancient Gnosticism Minneapolis (July 20, 2007) — In the newly released Ancient Gnosticism:...

Favourite Greek Grammar Poll Results

Last Wednesday, I asked the question, What is your preferred introductory Greek Grammar? . The results are as follows: --------- William Mo...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the Review of Biblical Literature under the NT (and related) heading: Alessandro Falcetta, ed. James Rendel Harris: New Testame...

Expository Times Latest

The latest issue of The Expository Times was announced on 1 July: 1 July 2007; Vol. 118, No. 10, http://ext.sagepub.com/content /vol118/iss...

Review of Biblical Literature Backlog

While excavating the email mountain, I came across some Review of Biblical Literature alerts that I had not included, from March, so here a...

Koester, Paul and His World

Latest alert from Fortress: -------------- Landmark Explorations of the Environment of the Early Church "Koester's monumental volum...

Deinde takes a short break and BAS latest

Danny Zacharias has been in touch to let me know that Deinde is currently on a short break. It is undergoing an upgrade which should be do...

More from archive.org: C. H. Dodd

More from the Internet Archive: C. H. Dodd, The Johannine Epistles (The Moffatt New Testament Commentary; New York, Evanston and London: Ha...

In Defence of Wikipedia III

Back in March, I wrote In Defence of Wikipedia and followed it with In Defence of Wikipedia Response , specifically to criticize the trendi...

Crossan, Back to Greek, or, Better, Aramaic?

Crossan's latest contribution to On Faith is: Back to Greek, or, Better, Aramaic? . . . . In terms of Roman Catholicism, our ancestors ...

Call for Papers: St Andrews

The following is posted on behalf of Bruce Longenecker: The Biblical Studies Seminar of the School of Divinity at the University of St Andre...

Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

In Exploring our Matrix , James McGrath asks Will hell freeze over or will hell break loose? , which gives me the opportunity, rather gratui...

Dominus Flevit Ossuaries

Antonio Lombatti emails: After the documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, many foreign scholars asked me about the ossuaries of the Dominus Fle...

Biblical Studies Bulletin 42

It looks like I missed this one at the time. Edited by Michael Thompson, it is the latest Biblical Studies Bulletin from Grove Books and b...

What is your preferred Introductory Greek Grammar?

It's high time we had a poll here, and this is my first attempt at producing one. I am using Bravenet and just learning how to configur...

Greek Grammar Resources at archive.org

Over on Hypotyposeis , Andrew Criddle notes "how good a resource the text archive has become" and on b-greek Philip Maertens lis...

Messianic Materials in Doctor Who

Warning: post contains spoilers, and links to posts with spoilers The fabulous third season of the new Doctor Who finished last week, while...

I am not thinking of giving up blogging

I just want to clarify, in relation to my post about How access to the internet interferes with writing , that I wouldn't dream of givin...

Biblical Studies Blog Carnival Latest

I was away when this was published, but I always like to mention the Biblical Studies Blog Carnivals , not least because the authors put so ...

Tyndale Tech Latest: Lexicons for Biblical Studies

The latest Tyndale Tech , originally sent out as an email in May 2007, is now available online and the topic this time is Lexicons: Lexicons...

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism Latest

The Journal of Greco Roman Christianity and Judaism has added a new article to Volume 4: Nathan Eubank, Bakhtin and Lukan Politics: A Carni...

Time to move on from SPIonic

A recent correspondent commented on a repeated problem with the use of the SPIonic font, the free Scholars Press font designed by James Ada...

Syneidon Survey

Syneidon now has its own RSS feed, which is good news for the increasing numbers who access everything this way, and it is asking the quest...

How access to the internet interferes with writing

I have often wondered how much more productive I would be if I didn't have such easy, regular access to the internet. When I say "...

My endorsement of Horrell's Introduction

One of the latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature is by Stephen Westerholm (PDF) of David Horrell's Introduction to the S...

New Layton Introductory Coptic Grammar

I am grateful to Ben White for drawing my attention to Bentley Layton's new book: Coptic in 20 Lessons Introduction to Sahidic Coptic Wi...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Last couple of Review of Biblical Literature listings, those under the NT or related headings: David Tuesday Adamo, ed. Biblical Interpreta...

Back in the USA and Ready to Blog

We're back home in North Carolina again where it is a lot warmer and a lot drier than it is in England at the moment. We like to be bac...