Christmas Break

I'm off to England for a Christmas break and so there'll be no blogging until the new year. Speaking of England, I did a guest blog...

Kloppenborg, Segal and Hurtado debate

Thanks to David Mackinder and John Marshall for mentioning this: Jesus and the Gospel: What Really Happened? It's an email debate betwee...

Response to Lüdemann

I have now finished my first set of final grading here at Duke so I have a moment to turn again to Gerd Lüdemann on Christmas. Lüdemann pub...

Response to Mark Goodacre and Stephen Carlson by Gerd Lüdemann

I have just received this response from Gerd Lüdemann to my comments on his press release ( The Christmas Stories are Pious Fairy Tales ) a...

Lüdemann on Christmas

On Biblical Theology , Jim West gives the text of Gerd Lüdemann's thoughts on the Christmas story. A look at Lüdemann's homepage g...

SBL Forum

There's a new issue of the SBL Forum available, for December 2005: SBL Forum Vol. 3, No.11: December 2005 Strategies for Moving Students...

SBL Call for Papers goes live

The SBL Annual Meeting Call for Papers went live yesterday (15th). Or at least all the programme chairs were encouraged to get our calls fo...

New Location for Phil Harland's Blog

Others will already have mentioned this by now, but I've been away from the blogging machine for a couple of days and this is the first ...

NTS latest

The latest New Testament Studies has been announced and is on-line for subscribers and subscribing institutions (with abstracts available f...

In the Footsteps of Jesus, Episode 4

The fourth and final part in the BBC Radio 4 series In the Footsteps of Jesus was broadcast earlier today, and it is available for listenin...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Harris, Murray J. The Second Epistle to the Corinthians Reviewed by...

N. T. Wright and the Easter Oratorio

The N. T. Wright page carries details of a recording of an Easter Oratorio by Paul Spicer , the libretto for which is written by N. T. Wr...

Bauckham articles on-line

On Biblicalstudies.org.uk , Rob Bradshaw announces that he has made available on-line two of Richard Bauckham's articles: Richard J. Bau...

Article on Wright

The N. T. Wright Page mentions this short article from Friday's Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Reform Party A British theologian ...

Bart Ehrman on the Diane Rehm Show

Since moving to the US, NPR (National Public Radio) has become part of my staple diet. It's no Radio 4 (what could be?), but it has s...

Paul Mirecki: assault, the media and protection

I was horrified to read of the assault on Paul Mirecki on Hypotyposeis , and the follow-up posts there. Paul Mirecki is Professor in the ...

Magdalene Review

I'm behind everyone else (e.g. Michael Bird , Jim Davila and others) on this one, but I've enjoyed reading the following: The Magda...

Now I know what I'd like on my epitaph

Courtesy of Michael Bird on Euangelion , now I know what I'd like on my epitaph . Update (20 December): thanks to Whit Stodghill for th...

Karamat's Xanga site

Another new blog, this one mentioned by Jim West , is: Karamat's Xanga Site It's by Kevin Wilson, Professor of Biblical Studies at L...

Powerscourt

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson mentions a new blog by Suzanne McCarthy: Powerscourt The name is explained in Lady Powerscourt I . The bl...

Belated congratulations to Michael Bird

I've been meaning to add my congratulations to Michael Bird of Euangelion for the award of his doctorate ( the doctor is in! ). His th...

Zhubert one year old today

The remarkable site Zhubert.com is one year old today: Dec 7: www.zhubert.com turns one! Congratulations -- it's a great site and it fe...

Idols, Demons, Empty Spaces and 1 Corinthians

I taught a class on 1 Corinthians on Friday, and I began thinking about the contrast between 1 Cor. 8 and 10, a contrast that has always bot...

Hodges's Plagiarism Index

On Gypsy Scholar , Jeffery Hodges has helpfully gathered together all his fascinating posts on catching plagiarists: Plagiarism Index

Stop obsessing about biblioblogging

This has been pointed out by others (e.g. Stephen Carlson and Jim Davila ) but it's worth another mention in spite of the fact that I h...

In the Footsteps of Jesus, Episode 3 (Rome)

The third part of In the Footsteps of Jesus was broadcast at 8 pm GMT today (I managed to catch it live today, from my office at Duke). As...

NT opening at Regent

On Bob's Blog , there's an opening at Regent College, Vancouver advertised : REGENT COLLEGE, an evangelical graduate school of Chri...

Biblioblogs Blog of the Month

The NT Gateway blog has the privilege this month of a special feature on Biblioblogs.com: Biblioblogs: Blog of the Month: December 2005 Than...

Post: Warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge

The ad below is courtesy of Dr Andrew Clarke: Warden / Director of Tyndale House, Cambridge Applications are invited for the post of warden/...

Plagiarists' Editorial Fatigue

On Gypsy Scholar Jeffery Hodges has some fascinating reflections on student plagiarism, utilizing some of my own academic work on editorial...

Tyndale House Summer School

I am grateful to David Instone-Brewer for emailing with details of another excellent looking summer school to be run by Tyndale House (eg. s...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading, and just a short selection this time: Barnett, Paul The Birth of Ch...

More comments on Footsteps

Further to previous posts on In the Footsteps of Jesus , I noticed this nice comment in yesterday's Herald : . . . . Meanwhile Edward S...

Clippings Folders

Rubén Gómez comments on his Clippings Backlog and asks "Am I the only one . . . .?" No, it's at least me too. I have dozen...

Bob's blog

It's a great pleasure to welcome Robert Derrenbacker to the blogosphere: Bob's Blog

Stephen Carlson Interview Archived

The radio programme featuring Stephen Carlson talking about Morton Smith's invention of Secret Mark, Keeping the Faith , is now availabl...

In the Footsteps of Jesus II

The second episode of In the Footsteps of Jesus was broadcast last night on Radio 4 at 8 pm GMT and is available on-line: In the Footstep...

Stephen Carlson on the radio on Secret Mark

A reminder that Stephen Carlson is on the radio right now on Keeping the Faith (6 pm, Eastern Time) and you can listen on-line at: Listen ...

Identity, Schmidentity @ Deinde

I am grateful to Paul Nikkel on Deinde for articulating some of his concerns in this post: Identity Schmidentity: Questioning the biblioblo...

Dr Claude Mariottini's blog

Claude Mariottini emails to let me know about his new blog: Dr. Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament This blog is a Christian pers...

Death of the biblioblog?

(Cartoon courtesy Tyler Williams ). Is it time to announce the death of the biblioblog? Tim Bulkeley on Sansblogue (and it was great to h...

Ralph on SBL

Ed Cook has a great post on the SBL: Scattered Thoughts on AAR-SBL (Part II) : . . . . There's got to be a better method of absorbing ne...

My first American Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to American readers all over the world (including Jim Davila ). I am very much looking forward to my first American Than...

SBL Assorted Reflections

One or two additional general reflections, of varying degrees of importance: (1) My move to the USA makes me even more conscious of what I (...