How to help the Tsunami Victims

Beliefnet have a helpful list of relief charities which are helping victims of the earthquake and tsunamis in South Asia: How to Help the Ts...

The Real King Herod

Well, our telly has gone on the blink here (perhaps Who Wrote the Bible? was just too much for it), but it's worth noting that Channel ...

Michael Pahl's blog

A warm welcome to the blogosphere to Michael Pahl, who teaches New Testament at Prairie Bible College in Alberta, Canada and is a PhD studen...

Christmas wishes

This blog is closing down for Christmas now, with very best wishes for a happy Christmas to all my readers, with many thanks for your encour...

Crossan on the Nativity

Beliefnet has this story: The Nativity Story's True Message John Dominic Crossan on the characters in Jesus' birth story--the Magi, ...

Who Wrote the Bible? Press Release

University of Birmingham have a press release on Who Wrote the Bible? : Beckford's Bible Investigation Broadcast on Christmas Day And it...

Oded Golan indicted

This has already been mentioned elsewhere ( Hypotyposeis , Biblical Theology , Xtalk ); it's "breaking news" -- Oded Golan i...

Top Five Posts

Here is my attempt to take up the challenge and find my top five posts, with some appended comments: What Jesus really looked like (updated)...

M. R. James

There was a real treat on BBC4 last night, the beginning of an M. R. James season , with a documentary about the man followed by a quite ama...

Robert Beckford on FiveLive

It was good to catch my colleague Robert Beckford on FiveLive this morning discussing Who Wrote the Bible? (don't forget, if you are in...

Best ofs

In The First Annual Ralphies , Ed Cook challenges other bibliobloggers to come up with their own best-ofs. I doubt that mine will be of muc...

Still biblioblogging

There is a lot more around on nomenclature, including a whole range of new suggestions (see Ricoblog and links). I'm afraid the origin...

Putting the Chi back into Xmas

I am delighted to see Ed Cook in Ralph the Sacred River , homing in on something that has always annoyed me, perhaps because I too was taugh...

Cana Excavations

I haven't got round to this, but it is getting covered well elsewhere in biblioblogdom. Paleojudaica covers the story, with some usefu...

Top Five Posts?

AKMA has been resisting the new blogging trend to list what you think of as your own top five blog posts of the year, but finally succombs:...

Helenann Hartley's New Blog

I am delighted to see my friend Helenann Hartley joining the blogosphere: Helenann Hartley She describes the blog as "General musings o...

Princeton Colloquium on Heresy

This notice was sent in by Holger Zellentin: -------------- Making Selves and Marking Others: Heresy and Self-Definition in Late Antiquity C...

Who Wrote the Bible?

It is good to see the media picking up a bit on the forthcoming Channel 4 documentary Who Wrote the Bible? even if the way The Observer sp...

Review of Wright on Romans

The N. T. Wright page has added a reproduction of a review of N. T. Wright's commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, which appears in ...

Early Christian Writings etc. update

Peter Kirby has put aside some time to work on his Early Christian Writings and Early Jewish Writings websites and is soliciting comment -...

James Ossuary latest

Stephen Goranson has the latest on the James Ossuary on Xtalk : CBS 60 Minutes 7pm EST Sunday 16 Dec. has scheduled a report on the ossuary,...

More on how to read a scholarly paper

A couple of weeks ago, I offered some further reflections on the topic How to read a scholarly paper in dialogue with some of the other bib...

Biblical Studies Bulletin 34

Grove Books' quarterly newsletter, Biblical Studies Bulletin , edited by Michael Thompson, now has its December issue on-line: Biblical ...

PubSub

On The Coding Humanist , Eric Sowell notes this link ranking tool: PubSub LinkRanks NTGateway.com currently comes in at 25,374 in the rank...

Death of Carsten Peter Thiede

Also from Franz Böhmisch on Mikra the news of the death yesterday of Carsten Peter Thiede, aged 52; this is from Kreuz.net: Carsten Peter ...

Abschiedsvorlesung Erich Zenger

This link appeared courtesy of Franz Böhmisch on Mikra : "Gott hat keiner jemals geschaut" (Joh 1,18): Die christliche Gottesrede ...

Biblica latest

Here's one I haven't had a chance to blog until now, the latest Biblica : Biblica 85 (2004) You'll have to scroll down to get t...

RSS feed for JTS

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson points to an RSS feed available for the Journal of Theological Studies . I look forward to other publish...

Brian Capper

I happened across this homepage tonight: Dr Brian Capper Brian is a reader in Christian Origins at Canterbury Christ Church University Colle...

Two-Sauce Theory update

It is possible that some might have missed the comments on The Two-Sauce Theory, including Wieland Willker's diagramme: http://www-user...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Silzer, Peter James and Thomas John Finley How Biblical ...

Google Scholar Firefox Plug-in

Attention fellow Firefox and Google Scholar users: there is a plug-in available for Google Scholar for Firefox. One click and it's loa...

SBL Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for the 2005 SBL Annual Meeting went on-line yesterday. It does seem so recent that the San Antonio meeting finished. ...

Nikkel on SBL

There is some new content for December on the SBL Forum . I enjoyed reading the Report from the Annual Meeting by Paul Nikkel (of deinde )...

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism

Thanks to Matthew Brook O'Donnell for alerting me to updates in the following journal: Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism I...

Two-Sauce Theory

Thanks to Jeff Peterson for the link to this picture, its source not quite clear, but somewhere in Cambridge, which explains a lot: The Two-...

Google pens agreement with libraries

In addition to the earlier story, thanks to Jeff Peterson for this one: Google pens agreement with libraries New York: Popular internet sear...

Zhubert's Greek New Testament Browser

This was posted today on b-greek by Carl Conrad and is a fine new resource, with lots of potential for further development too: GNT Browser...

Bibliobloggers

I've been enjoying following all the different suggestions for renaming the collective term for the increasing number of those blogging ...

Google Scholar and Google Suggest

Because it came up while I was in Texas, I never did get around to blogging on Google Scholar , but I assume that all my readers have heard ...

Lacus Curtius Maps

I've adjusted a URL on my Maps page, Some Maps of the Roman Empire , Part of Lacus Curtius , Bill Thayer's fine web site on Roman a...

Cities of Paul

Another press release from Fortress: --------------- Fortress Press Releases Monumental Resource on the Cities of Paul MINNEAPOLIS (Dec 9, 2...

Fortress Teaching Awards

This press release is from Fortress: --------- Fortress Press Presents New Teaching Awards MINNEAPOLIS (December 9, 2004)— Fortress Press pr...

AKMA is still having random thoughts

Just in case, like me, you had been thinking that AKMA had not had any random thoughts for the last few weeks, I found out today that the bl...

A Covenant to the People, A Light to the Nations

Annette Yoshiko Reed sends round a "reminder in advance of the impending December 15th deadline for applications for participation in t...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Estévez López, Elisa El Poder de una Mujer Creyente: Cuerpo, identidad ...

Testament of Abraham on-line

Which reminds me that I went to the only on-line English translation of the Testament of Abraham available, at New Advent , and it is compl...

Blogging at its best @ Paleojudaica

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson suggests that this post on Paleojudaica might be come a classic: Philo or the Pseudepigrapha I agree; gre...

Kirby on Firefox

If you have downloaded Firefox, you'll probably be using it as your default browser by now and you'll agree with everything that Pet...

End of term struggle

As you may have noticed, nothing here now for days. It's the end of term struggle, which combines an even bigger workload than usual wi...

How to read a scholarly paper

On new blog Ralph the Sacred River , Edward Cook has some interesting comments on "How to read a scholarly paper", following on fr...

Zeba Crook's English Synopsis Update

Back in May, I blogged on Zeba Crook's English Reader's Synopsis . Zeba now has an updated version setting out the advantages of th...

Christian Origins new look again

I mentioned recently the new look for Peter Kirby's Christian Origins pages. Don't forget to have a look at them here: Text Inform...

Australian Biblical Review

Thanks to Felix Just for this one: Australian Biblical Review This is a nicely designed website and features lists of contents, subscription...

The Bible and Critical Theory

Thanks to Michael Pahl for this one: The Bible and Critical Theory This is a new journal based at Monash University. It's an e-journal ...

Google Search on NT Gateway

Back in September, I reached my limit of 1,500 documents at Picosearch, the free search engine I was using for the New Testament Gateway an...

Further NT Gateway updates

I have also updated the URLs for Stephen Carlson's Synoptic Problem Website on Synoptic Problem and Q and on two related pages. I'...

Mahlon Smith's sites

Mahlon Smith has moved his websites to a new permanent URL at http://virtualreligion.net . I have now completed the process of updating my ...

Staley on John Adjustments

I've corrected and updated the URLs and information for Jeffrey Staley 's articles on John on my Gospel of John: Books and Articles ...

Evelina Meghnagi

In my report on the Fulco and Fitzgerald session at the SBL, I included a brief comment on the following: Also on the question of anti-Juda...

Who Wrote the New Testament? DVD

This press release was sent to me by Beth Read of the Bible Society : ----------------- NEW DVD UNCOVERS THE FINGERPRINTS OF THE NEW TESTAME...

Apostle Paul Video

Enis Sakirgil gets in touch to draw my attention to this video project: Apostle Paul and the Earliest Churches From the look of it (there ar...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL's Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Weren, Wim and Dietrich-Alex Koch, eds. Recent Dev...

On-line Seminar with Gerd Lüdemann

The forthcoming On-line Seminar featuring Gerd Lüdemann has just been announced. It will take place in January and will last for three wee...

Also at SBL

The SBL Forum has a picture of the book exhibit from this year's meeting. And Michael Homan joins the ranks of those who have blogged...

Neotestamentica new website

The journal Neotestamentica has a new, permanent website address at Neotestamentica.net: Neotestamentica Thanks to Holger Szesnat for the n...