Report on Richard Hays's Lectures

On rabbisaul , Tim Gallant has posted a thorough and most interesting report on two sessions at the Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas ...

BibleDudes latest

Michael Homan announces the Newest Latest Section of BibleDudes , a fine interactive piece on the Archaeology section -- go about two-thir...

More on TNIV

Christian Century has an article on the newly released TNIV, Today's New International Version, noting that it has not caused the kind ...

The Sword

I've been waiting for a chance to join others (e.g. Stephen Carlson in Hypotyposeis ) in welcoming Michael Turton's new blog: The Sw...

More Jesus Sightings

I'm pleased to see that the sightings continue. Thanks to David Meadows for this fine example of the genre, with a video, in First Coas...

Beyond Belief

I went up to Manchester on Thursday to take part in a recording for a Beyond Belief on Radio 4. The topic was Gnosticism and the other two...

Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective

A press release from Fortress: Scholars Present Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective MINNEAPOLIS (February 25, 2005)— Of all the ...

The brilliant -- and not so brilliant -- schoolboy

I enjoyed Ed Cook's post on Ralph on The Brilliant Schoolboy , following on from a comment made by Jim Davila on Paleojudaica . There i...

TNIV latest

There is a lot of interest at the moment in the new TNIV translation. TNIV stands for Today's New International Version and is the gen...

Biblioblogs go flickr

On the MacIntosh Biblioblog Joe Weaks has a nice post on the benefits of flickr as a host for your photographs, with a link to a new Biblio...

BAR on James Ossuary on-line

Biblical Archaeology Review have placed twelve pages of the latest March-April edition dealing with the Antiquities Fraud Indictment on-lin...

Augsburg Fortress job losses

Christian Century notes that several job losses have been announced at Augsburg Fortress: Augsburg Fortress . . . announced . . . that it ...

Archaeologists discover Paul's tomb

Or so this report claims, with thanks to Jim West for the link (and earlier also Rogueclassicism on an Italian article on this): Archaeolog...

Aberdeen

I'd like to second Jim Davila's congratulations to the University of Aberdeen Department of Divinity and Religious Studies who have...

New Perspective on Paul: Bibliographical Essay

I was lecturing a couple of weeks ago on the recent backlash against the New Perspective on Paul so for the first time had to find time to e...

Review of Michael McLymond, Familiar Stranger

Christianity Today has the following article review of Michael McLymond, Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (Grand Rap...

Jesus at the Movies in Cornwall

With apologies for the self-promotion, I publish notice of this event on 28 May at the University of Exeter in Cornwall: Jesus at the Movies...

Taking Note: St Matthew Passion

I caught a super programme earlier today which may be of interest to some, a half-hour documentary about the St Matthew Passion : Taking Not...

Greek Study Day Correction and Reminder

Thanks to Steve Walton for pointing out the minor correction necessary on the booking form for the Greek Study Day on 2 March at the Univers...

Apocalypticism, Anti-Semitism and the Historical Jesus

My previous post reminds me to blog details of a super book I'm reading at the moment, one of the latest volumes in the JSNTS Apocalypti...

New book by Bill Arnal

It's good to see -- via Zeba Crook on Xtalk -- that Bill Arnal has a new book out and I can't wait to read it: The Symbolic Jesus Hi...

SBL Forum February

The latest edition of the SBL Forum is now on-line: SBL Forum Vol. 3 No. 2 (February 2005) The theme is "accomplishments and opportunit...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL's Review of Biblical Literature under the general Bible and NT headings: Focant, Camille, ed. Quelle maison pour Di...

Passion on 100 Greatest TearJerkers

The Passion of the Christ made an appearance on last night's Channel 4 chart, 100 Greatest Tear Jerkers , where it clocked in at 94. T...

Latest Image

Thanks to David Meadows for this latest image in our Jesus-sightings watch. This article is from local6.com: Crowds See Holy Images In Tree...

Peter Ackroyd Obituary

The Times has the following obituary: The Rev Professor Peter Ackroyd Old Testament scholar whose meticulous research challenged and then v...

Biblical Theology Bulletin Fall 2004

FindArticles have added the full text of the following: Biblical Theology Bulletin Fall 2004 When violence rules by David M. Bossman ...

"Is this Jesus?"

On Biblical Theology , Jim West draws attention to this article from the Australian Herald Sun : Is this Jesus? Bryan Patterson It's a c...

Unicode for Greek Guidelines

Thanks to Bob Buller for letting me know of the existence of this excellent article at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard Universit...

More on the Jerusalem Shroud

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila draws attention to an interesting update from James Tabor on the Jerusalem Shroud in a message to the ANE List ...

Welcome back Bible and Interpretation

I'd like to join others in welcoming back Bible and Interpretation.

New cut version of The Passion of the Christ

This has been reported variously, e.g. mentioned by Jim West , a Variety (subscription only) article on a recut version of The Passion of ...

More helps with unicode

I am happy to see Joe Weaks now posting some useful introductory material on unicode on his Macintosh Biblioblog Unicode: A Bible Scholar...

More Jesus sightings

Helenann Hartley has the latest on one of the recent Jesus sightings -- in a pan: Pan with face of Jesus attracting more visitors By ANITA ...

Callahan, A Love Supreme

This press release is from Fortress (and I will take the opportunity to add, as I do from time to time, that Fortress remain the only publis...

N. T. Wright page latest

The N. T. Wright page continues to build up its really substantial bank of Tom Wright's articles, now with: N. T. Wright, "Paul, A...

Doctoral Scholarship Funding Opportunity

I forward this message on behalf of David McLynn and the Panacea Society: Doctoral Scholarship Funding Opportunity The Panacea Society (an e...

Professorial Post in Theology or Biblical Studies at Liverpool Hope

This is from Prof. Kenneth Newport. Liverpool Hope University are advertising the following post: Professorial Post in Theology or Biblical...

Qumranica

And of course I have added Jim Davila's new Qumranica blog to my blogroll. I am looking forward to seeing how Jim uses the blog to sup...

PastoralEpistles.com RSS feed

PastoralEpistles.com now has its RSS feed so I've added it to my blogroll.

Jesus sightings

While I am in light-hearted mood (teaching and marking all day induces some silliness by the end of it), I want to say how much I am enjoyin...

Years of research as a worrying sign

In Biblical Theology , Jim West notes an odd new thesis aligning Jesus with Caesar (and when you see that the evidence consists of claims l...

Paul Page update

Thanks to Prof. L. Gregory Bloomquist for notifying me that the old "Homepage for Saint Paul the Apostle" had gone. I've foun...

Chora Strangers

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for alerting me to this interesting website, not updated since 2003, but featuring lots of full text articles: Chor...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Bond, Helen K. Caiaphas: Friend of Rome and Judge of Jesus? Reviewe...

Thoughts about not blogging

I was interested to read Rubén Gómez's remarks in Bible Software Review Weblog lamenting his recent difficulties in getting time to blo...

Chattaway on The Passion

On Xtalk , Jeffery Hodges mentions the following article in Christianity Today : Come and See How a century of movies—from a 1905 French sil...

PastoralEpistles.com

Already mentioned in at least a couple of the biblioblogs is Rick Brannan's new website: PastoralEpistles.com It's a website-come-bl...

Greek NT Gateway: Grammars Update

Thanks to Catherine Smith for pointing out that the following page had largely dead links: Greek New Testament Gateway: Grammars I've fi...

John Drane's Introducing the Bible with CD-Rom

This press release is from Fortress Press: ---------- Fortress Press Releases John Drane’s Introducing the Bible with CD-ROM MINNEAPOLIS (Fe...

Tyndale Summer School 2005

Peter Head has just sent this over and it may be of interest: ---------------- Depending on demand, we will be hosting a Summer School in Ju...

Greek NT Gateway: Fonts update

I have finally got round to updating the following: Greek New Testament Gateway: Greek Fonts I have introduced a fresh (and much overdue) s...

Unicode Greek Samples

On b-greek , Wieland Willker puts together samples of unicode Greek fonts to compare the "looks" of each, and compares with the no...

TNIV On-line

Thanks to David Baird for this link: TNIV -- Today's New International Version Online This site features information about the new ...

Neotestamentica latest

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for letting me know the latest on Neotestamentica . On-line information on the latest issue, with contents, abstra...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL's Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Allen, Ronald J. and Clark M. Williamson Preaching the Gospel...

Perspectives on the Passion Conference

I post the following for Dr Christine Joynes. This looks like a very interesting conference; I think I may go along myself: ------------- ...

Real Da Vinci Code

I have completely avoided The Da Vinci Code in this blog; I'm afraid I'm interested in neither the book nor the refutations of it....

SBL Forum latest

A couple of new items on the SBL Forum : Results from 2004 SBL Annual Meeting Survey This is not the political survey widely discussed in th...

Apocalypse of Peter on-line

When our post graduate Greek class here were reading Apocalypse of Peter last term, I noticed that there was no electronic text available o...