Richard Valantasis

This from Religion Press Release Services : ILIFF NAMES PROFESSORS TO ENDOWED CHAIRS June 29, 2005 -- (DENVER) -- The Iliff School of Theolo...

Philip Esler's New Paradigm

From Fortress: Prominent Scholar Proposes New Paradigm for Biblical Theology MINNEAPOLIS (June 17, 2005)— In New Testament Theology: Communi...

New blogs on the block

Since I've been away from blogging, there are several new biblioblogs and ancient world blogs on the block. These have all been mention...

Matthew and the Didache

This press release from Fortress: Fortress Press Releases Matthew and the Didache MINNEAPOLIS (June 28, 2005)— In Matthew and the Didache , ...

Paul Ricoeur Obituary

A lot of my blogging for the next day or two is going to be in the "in case you missed it" category given that I'm behind; I ...

More on Mark's Other Gospel

Over on Xtalk , Loren Rosson has a useful review of Scott Brown's new book on the Secret Gospel of Mark : Mark's Other Gospel (Revie...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

And with that in mind (see previous post ), here are the latest from the SBL's Review of Biblical Literature relating to the NT: Hultgr...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

In the Macintosh Biblioblog Joe Weaks comments "If you frequent Mark Goodacre's blog, you've observed his personal obsession w...

Missing blogging

I don't think I've ever gone so long without serious blogging and I'm missing it. I'm still too busy to get to the blog; k...

Light Blogging and Preparations to Move

No doubt you will have noticed that this blog has stalled somewhat over the last week or so. I fear that that will be a pattern to come ove...

Congratulations to Catherine Smith

My student Catherine Smith ( old pic here on Paleojudaica ) today had her PhD viva, examiners Prof. David Parker and Dr Andrew Wilson, and ...

Bible Dudes latest

Bible Dudes blog notes that its new section on Source Criticism is now live: Source Criticism The cartoon "P" and "Q" ...

Coptic Gospel of Judas latest

Just in case you missed it, Jim West on Biblical Theology , Jim Davila on Paleojudaica , and no doubt others too, refer to an i-Newswire pie...

Pain of Powerpoint

On Ricoblog , Rick Brannan has an enjoyable post about Presentations and Powerpoint , linking to this great post / article on Creating Passi...

Ehrman on Thomas

0n Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson comments on Bart Ehrman on the Da Vinci Code : I think that the Gospel of Thomas was written about 20 ye...

The Open End

For some years there has been a group of theologians and philosophers of religion (and similar such people) who have held a monthly Monday n...

The Suffering Servant Book Review

This week's Church Times has an enthusiastic review of the following: The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources ...

Bart Ehrman on Da Vinci Code

Beliefnet has an enjoyable interview with Bart Ehrman on his recent book setting The Da Vinci Code straight: Unpacking 'The Code' W...

David Shepherd's Passion Writers' Interview

On Deinde Danny Zacharias points to the following article on the latest SBL Forum: From Gospel to Gibson: An Interview with the Writers Dan...

Fredriksen on the Passion again

Helenann Hartley and Michael Pahl (and I think Jim West too but I can't find the link) comment on this article about a lecture given b...

Carlson on Secret Mark latest

On Ricoblog , Rick Brannan has the latest on Stephen Carlson, The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark including a li...

Ancient skulls

Another interesting post on Ralph relates to Ancient Stench and Corpse Removal and features the following comment: And lastly, the Mishnah...

Aramaic Wordplay in Matt. 3.9 @ Ralph

On Ralph the Sacred River , Ed Cook has an interesting discussion of a possible Aramaic wordplay in Matt. 3.9 // Luke 3.8, prompted by a ref...

Latest Biblica

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for the note that Biblica has its latest out: Biblica 26/1 (2005) Fasc. 1 These are the NT articles: Bennema, C 2...

Another Passion article

The Jewish Political Studies Review has an article on The Passion of the Christ . I'd like to comment when I have time, but here's...

Crossan on Paul

The North Carolina based Baptist Recorder has an article on John Dominic Crossan's views on Paul: Scholars chronicle Paul's lasting...

Maurice Wiles

I was sorry to read of the death of Maurice Wiles on Hypotyposeis . Today's Telegraph has an obituary: The Rev Professor Maurice Wiles...

Evaluating Internet Information

There's been a useful thread on Xtalk recently on Jeffrey Gibson's work on revising the on-line links on Steven Harris's New Te...

Shh!

Thanks too to Michael Turton on The Sword for his good wishes; but it sounds like he may be onto us me.

PhD Questions

Over on Deinde , Danny Zacharias asks some interesting questions about the kinds of things for post-graduates to bear in mind in pursuing a ...

American Professors and English Lecturers

My email inbox is now down from 550 to 80 and though there's still some way to go, I turn to the pleasurable task of beginning to catch ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Here's a bumper list of the latest under the NT and General heading from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature , i.e. covering this week...

Normal service will be resumed . . . .

. . . . as soon as I have at least made some dent on the hundreds of emails that have accumulated, and so on. I had a great week away. I...