Travel Diary: Synoptic Problem Conference III

Oxford, Thursday, 00:47; last full day of the Synoptic Problem conference. First session, 9a.m.: Andrew Gregory chaired what was perhaps th...

Travel Diary: Synoptic Problem Conference II

Oxford, 01:02: second day of the Oxford conference on the Synoptic Problem at Lincoln College. One of the participants here teased me abou...

Travel Diary: Synoptic Problem Conference I

Oxford, England, 00:22: caught the train down from Birmingham to Oxford this morning, a journey that I did many times as a student; tried t...

Travel Diary: Oxford Synoptic Problem Pre-Conference II

Birmingham, 00.19. After an excellent weekend with my folks in South Derbyshire, we have spent the day in Birmingham, seeing old friends. ...

Travel Diary: Oxford Synoptic Problem Conference Pre-Conference Post

The new series (the fourth) of the new Doctor Who starts on BBC1 tonight (6.20pm) and we have flown over to England specially to see it. W...

Synoptic Problem Conference Paper

There is a conference in Oxford next week to celebrate the forthcoming centenary of Oxford Studies in the Synoptic Problem . The conferenc...

Farrer on the Matthean context of double tradition

The story of the Centurion is commonly supposed to have been derived by St Matthew from Q. But surely the moral to be drawn from the extrao...

Dale Allison Clark Lecture Recordings

Thanks to Andy Rowell for pointing out that Dale Allison's Clark Lectures , recently given at Duke University, are now available online ...

BBC Passion website new content: Crucifixion and Questions Answered

More material has been added to the BBC's The Passion website. New today is an article on the crucifixion, discussing the topic by usi...

The Passion, episode 3

The third episode of The Passion was broadcast tonight on BBC1. I was on the road so was unable to watch it, but will catch up on Sunday ...

Passion Interview with me in Christian Today

Christian Today have been running a big feature on The Passion and they have added a couple of interviews done on the evening of the premi...

Independent praises "surprisingly gripping" Passion -- and other links

I omitted to refer to The Independent 's very positive review of The Passion . As usual, I'll quote a section, but it's all wor...

Guardian Review of "Fabulous" Passion

Saving the best until last, it's nice to wake up this morning to a great review in Media Guardian . It is not possible for me to concea...

The Passion: Reviews and Comments begin to come in

It is Monday morning and the papers are full of reviews and comments on The Passion . I hope to blog some more about this at the week goes ...

How Jesus was crucified: Sunday Telegraph's negative spin on The Passion

On Thursday afternoon, I had a fifteen minute chat with a reporter from the Sunday Telegraph about the way that Jesus' crucifixion is p...

The Passion on Newsnight Review

Thanks to James Crossley for pointing out to me that The Passion was reviewed last night on Newsnight Review . I was delighted to hear Ant...

The Passion trailer

I'm bumping this up to the top to remind those in the UK that The Passion mini-series begins this weekend. My posts on it, which inclu...

Review of Biblical Literature megapost

Here is the latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature, incorporating the last three or four updates: Egbert Ballhorn and Georg Stein...

The Passion Timeline

Another new feature has been added to The Passion website at the BBC: The Passion: Timeline A series of links are arranged in a Holy Week o...

More Passion video

Several more videos have been added to The Passion website at the BBC. These are theme-based interviews mainly with Frank Deasy (writer) a...

BBC Passion transmission times again

There is a little more available now on the transmission times for The Passion . Although the site's Episode Guide gives the Good Frid...

The Passion and Doctor Who

I have been wondering, ever since watching the first edits of The Passion , how I knew Mary ( Penelope Wilton ). Today I realized that she ...

Parables Article on the Passion Website

I have another article on The Passion website, this time on parables: Parables by Mark Goodacre

Frank Deasy on Start the Week

One of my favourite podcasts is Start the Week , Andrew Marr's regular Radio 4 Monday morning programme. It's great to discover thi...

BBC Passion Trailer on-line

The first trailer for The Passion (42 seconds) is now available on the BBC Passion website: The Passion

Travel Diary, Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale airport, Sunday, 9.56am.: I've spent a couple of days on my first Biblical Archaeology Society study weekend. The locat...

BBC Passion airtimes update

The Passion Episode Guide has been updated again, with an adjustment of Episode 3 to Good Friday, and times confirmed for the first three e...

BBC Passion Screen dates

There are details of the screen dates for The Passion over on its website now -- see Episode Guide : Episode 1: Sunday 16 March, 8pm-9pm, B...

On the road again

I set off for Fort Lauderdale later today where I am giving four lectures on the topic "Monarch or Messiah: the King of Jewish Expectat...

Times article on The Passion

Tomorrow's Times has a great write-up of The Passion by Garry Jenkins. I met Jenkins last night; he was actually over in Morocco for...

Passion Première: Travel Diary VI

Charlotte, NC, 5.13pm: Back in the USA. It's the first time I have arrived since our Green Cards arrived and it was a lot of fun joini...

Passion Première: Travel Diary V

A hotel in London, 2:18am: I am back from the Passion Première and had a wonderful evening. Before I say anything else, let's just get ...

Passion Première: Travel Diary IV

A hotel in London, 5.29pm: I had an excellent lunch on Millbank with two old friends, one of them Q; a little bit of walking and several ph...

The Passion Website launches

The website for The Passion is now online. It features pictures from the production, video interviews with the producer Nigel Stafford-Cla...

Passion Première: Travel Diary III

Starbucks, Victoria Street, 9.55am. Great flight. Read a couple of articles, watched a moderately funny episode of Everybody Loves Raymond...

Passion Première: Travel Diary III

Starbucks, Victoria Street, 9.55am. Great flight. Read a couple of articles, watched a moderately funny episode of Everybody Loves Raymond...

Passion Première: Travel Diary II

I've arrived in Charlotte and am enjoying a Sam Adams and some crisps overlooking the concourse. I have a longish wait here but it is l...

Passion Première: Travel Diary I

It's time for another of my travel diaries. The occasion this time is the premiere of The Passion , the BBC / HBO co-production which w...

Biblical Studies Bulletins 45 and 46

There are two new Biblical Studies Bulletins online at Ridley Hall, Cambridge: BSB 45 (September 2007) BSB 46 (December 2007) As usual the...

The Passion Press Pack

The BBC Press Office has today released its press pack for the forthcoming drama The Passion . It features interviews with producer Nigel ...

Dale Allison at Duke

Duke Divinity School has an annual lecture series on the New Testament in honour of Kenneth W. Clark. This year, the honoured guest is Dal...

Jim West's blog: transmission resumed

Transmission resumed .

Ehrman excerpt in OUP Blog

The OUP blog today has an excerpt from Bart Ehrman's Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene .

Jim West's blog: transmission cut

There is a great moment in The Truman Show when the transmission of the reality show is cut because they have lost its star, Truman, who ha...

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading. One of these, The Messiah in the Old and New Testaments , was menti...

Charlesworth on the Talpiot Tomb Symposium

James Charlesworth has a strongly worded statement on the recent Jerusalem Symposium that focused on the Talpiot Tomb. It's on the late...

Declaring Blog-Reading Bankruptcy

I recently caught mention of the idea of declaring email bankruptcy on AKMA's Random Thoughts . The idea comes from Lawrence Lessig , a...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament and related headings: Stanisław Bazyliński A Guide to Biblical Re...

E. P. Sanders to give Franke Lecture at Yale

If you are anywhere near Yale, this will be well worth taking the time to get to: “Law vs. Religion” Topic of Lecture at Yale’s Whitney Huma...

Where to study Theology in the UK

Jim West links to an interesting article in today's Independent on Theology in the UK. It is aimed at sixth-formers (the British equi...

Biblical Studies Carnival XXVI

As several others have already mentioned, Kevin Edgecomb has done an excellent (and very thorough) job on the latest Biblical Studies Carniv...

Divided by a common history

I am gathering together some extra bibliography at the moment to lend a hand to students on my Historical Jesus class, some of whom are writ...

Simcha Jacobovici Responds to His Critics

Last week I posted here a statement signed by several participants at a recent conference in Jerusalem on the Talpiot Tomb, The Talpiot Tomb...

Oxford Synoptic Conference, April 2008

I have previously posted on the forthcoming Oxford Synoptic Problem conference and I have received this message today from Andrew Gregory: ...