Dear Jordan

There is a sobering column in today's Duke Chronicle headed Dear Professors , in which Jordan Everson challenges his teachers to take t...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading. Is it just me or is it a particularly interesting crop...

Teaching Notes: Reading the New Testament Historically

Term began at Duke yesterday and I had my first class, New Testament, at lunchtime. This is the fourth time I have taught this course at Du...

New Pauline Theology Blog

April DeConick links to a new blog called Pauline Theology -- Fuller Texas , authored by David Capes. It includes a peak at an article Jes...

Review of Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem

Friday's Church Times carried a glowing review of Martin Goodman's recent Rome and Jerusalem : Both cock-up and conspiracy Cally Ha...

SBL Annual Meeting: My Papers

Several have noted that the SBL Annual Meeting 2007 Program Book is now online. I have two papers this year, and it's a case of out wi...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

A particularly interesting selection of new book reviews this time from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature . These are the ones under th...

Farrer fails to get a look in

Today's post on Jesus Creed , Knowing the Currents 2 was one of those useful reality checks for Q sceptics like me. In summarising the...

New Testament Scholars on Wikipedia

One way of testing claims about the intrinsic and insurmountable problems with Wikipedia is to ask how good it tends to be in its entries on...

The Return of Deinde

The Deinde Blog is back, and it has a new RSS feed, so make sure you make your updates. The new blog interface is looking much better than...

More on the future of sites like the New Testament Gateway

On Philo of Alexandria blog, Torrey Seland talks about RPBS - Resource Pages - going into sleep? , looking at the difficulty of continuing ...

More on how to engage with Wikipedia

An interesting article entitled Student's program sends PR chaos in Wiki scandal has been doing the rounds on the internet; it is on t...

Jesus Creed Historical Jesus Series: Third Quest and Summing Up

Over on Jesus Creed , Scot McKnight's fine Historical Jesus series continues with the Third Quest and Summing Up (see my previous com...

Jesus Creed Historical Jesus Series: Jesus Seminar

Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed series on Historical Jesus studies continues with the Jesus Seminar (see my previous comments in Jesus Cre...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading (and related): François Bovon Luke the Theologian: Fifty-Five Years ...

Encouragement for Zhubert

Zhubert comments on the leak of Facebook Secrets and develops reflections about his own site, now called The Resurgence Greek Project , co...

New New Testament Gateway Prototype

Over the last few months, I have been doing some serious thinking about the future of the New Testament Gateway . I have outlined what I se...

Stendahl, Introspective Conscience Article Online

Over on the Paul Page , they have made available online one of the most important articles on Paul written in the twentieth century. Perhap...

Jesus Creed Historical Jesus Series: Bultmann

Scot McKnight is running an excellent series on the Historical Jesus over on the Jesus Creed blog. Part 2 is headed Bultmann to the Jesus...

Comments on Hoffmann's Statement

I have some comments on the Statement by R. Joseph Hoffmann: Jesus Project v. Jesus Squad , the substance of which I shared with Joseph Hoff...

R. Joseph Hoffmann responds to Jesus Project Concerns

I am grateful to R. Joseph Hoffmann for sending me a copy of his detailed response to concerns about the Jesus Project. It is now published...

Simon Gathercole on the New Perspective on Paul

There has been some discussion in the blogosphere about this article already from those who are ahead of the game and have access to the pap...

The Strangeness of Biblical and Apocryphal Texts

Over on Apocryphicity , Tony Chartrand-Burke continues his enjoyable series on the Top Ten Faulty Arguments in Anti-Apocrypha Apologetics . ...

Historians Contributing to Wikipedia

I have maintained for a while that one of the best ways for academics to deal with the massive growth, in size and popularity, of Wikipedia ...

Jeff's Bible

This recent article from The Onion (via Bible Dudes Blog ) is irreverent and very funny, and a little off the usually serious tone around h...

The Jesus Project: Robert Price's Response

Robert Price has published a helpful Response to Concerns about the Jesus Project on his official homepage . Price was invited to be a fel...

The Jesus Project's Problems

One of the strengths of the blogging community, all the more so when it is backed up by e-listers, is that it can hold public bodies to acco...

Novum Testamentum latest

The latest Novum Testamentum is now available online to subscribers, with abstracts available free for all: Novum Testamentum 49/3, July 20...

John H. Elliott on 1 Peter

This is from Wipf and Stock: Conflict, Community, and Honor 1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective by John H. Elliott Cascade Books prese...

Tyndale Tech Latest

David Instone-Brewer's latest Tyndale Tech , sent out as an email in June, has now gone online: Tyndale Tech: June 2007: Backup, backup ...

Harvard Theological Review Latest

The latest Harvard Theological Review is now available to subscribers and it features several articles of interest on the NT and Christian ...