Café Apocalypsis

I am usually the last on the scene these days, but I'd like to join other bibliobloggers (including Michael Bird , Stephen Carlson and ...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from SBL's Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Esler, Philip F. Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Sett...

SBL International

I've never yet been to an SBL International Meeting and would have loved to have gone this year to Singapore but could not. So it's ...

Bird on Arnal et al

It's good to see Michel Bird, in his new blog Euangelion , commenting on Bill Arnals' new book, The Symbolic Jesus : The Peril of Mo...

Make Poverty History

I'm going to break my self-imposed protocol of not blogging outside academic NT topics today, but I'm sure it goes without saying th...

A conjuring trick with bones

It's good to see Helenann Hartley setting the record straight on a famous (mis)quotation of David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham. Ph...

Neville Birdsall

I have just heard from my colleague David Parker that Neville Birdsall died in the night, just after midnight. The funeral is to be on Mond...