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 (...

Cinema Jesus Redux

On Perspective , regular NT Gateway blog commenter Crystal has her reflections on her favourite Jesus films: Cinema Jesus Redux I am also a ...

Also blogging SBL were:

Christopher Heard on Higgaion ; and I looked through my blogroll and noticed that Higgain was missing, which I can hardly believe; now corr...

Times Review of Footsteps of Jesus

The Times has a review of In the Footsteps of Jesus : Radiohead Chris Campling finds God Edward Stourton has a gift for putting youthful fl...

A plea for the use of hand-outs

Torrey Seland in a photo illustrated post on Philo of Alexandria blog makes a lucid appeal for the use of hand-outs at SBL sessions: The En...

Also blogging the SBL was:

Phil Harland on Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean blog , though his comments are only brief, and he promises something in due course on...

Photo-blogging the SBL

Jim West has put the rest of us (well, me at least) to shame in his photographic illustration of his SBL experiences on Biblical Theology . ...

Postcolonial Biblical Reader

My former Birmingham colleague, Prof. R. S. Sugirtharajah has a new collection out, and this alert arrived today: --- The Postcolonial Bibli...

Searching for the historical Jesus

Further to my previous post on the series, here's an article on it appearing yesterday in BBC News On-line: Searching for the historica...

What's been on the BBC

I do miss the BBC while I am away; don't think I realized just how fond I was of it until I left England. I am afraid I surround mysel...

SBL Monday: the rest

[Note, an earlier post deals with events that came chronologically after the events in this post (a bit like Luke-Acts?), because I finishe...

SBL Tuesday: On the Way Home

On the way home now from SBL, with a hiccup on the way (I've seen "hiccough"; is that American sp?). Half of the plane at Ph...

SBL Monday afternoon

In some respects today was the most enjoyable day; I didn't feel as rough as I did yesterday, I didn't have anything to do in publi...

SBL Monday morning

Another early morning breakfast appointment, Synoptic Gospels Steering Committee. Next year I am going to give myself at least one early mo...

Also blogging SBL today are . . . .

Joe Cathey has lots of interesting posts on the SBL, including one today on the CARG session which he describes as "one of the best t...

SBL Sunday afternoon

I went to the Matthew Section at 1 today and was the first up. I presented a paper on The Rock on Rocky Ground: Matthew, Mark and Peter as ...

SBL Sunday morning

Alas, I only managed three and a half hours' sleep; I have a terrible habit of filling my schedule so full that in the end it's the...

Also blogging SBL is

Peter Williams on Evangelical Textual Criticism .

Biblioblogging issues

Ahead of tomorrow's session (in fact, later today, because I'm up in the small hours), Torrey Seland has posted his own reflections ...

SBL: Saturday afternoon

I attended the first session of the Synoptics Section which was, unfortunately, pretty badly attended. Next door, afterwards, there was the...

SBL Saturday

I too am here in Philadelphia at the SBL Annual Meeting. The good news is that there is free wireless internet available in public areas of...

On the way to Philadelphia

Well, actually I'm not yet. Hey, the extraordinary thing about going to the SBL from within the USA is that you don't have to start...

SBL Paper handout

I've uploaded a PDF of the hand-out to my forthcoming SBL paper : The Rock on Rocky Ground: Matthew, Mark and Peter as skandalon

SBL Didache Consultation Unit

Of course it could be (see previous post ) that there are lots of papers out there on the web but which I and others don't know about. ...

SBL Papers on-line: why so few?

I commented earlier on the pre-SBL buzz and noted that there seemed to me to be fewer papers on-line than usual. A good proportion of thos...

Enter the Bibliobloggers

Jim Davila's SBL paper for the CARG Biblioblogging session is now available on-line: Enter the Bibliobloggers I have read the paper and...

3 pm, 7 April, AD30

In Paleojudaica Jim Davila mentioned an article appearing in Saturday's Times : Moving on from reproach to rapprochement By Geza Vermes...

Real Family of Jesus DVD

Arron in Australia mentions in an email a DVD release of the BBC / Discovery documentary entitled The Real Family of Jesus , which features...

Do not fear the blog

On Cafe Apocalypsis , Alan Bandy mentions an excellent response to Ivan Tribble article previously mentioned . It is in the Chronicle of H...

SBL Blogging and Phil Harland

The forthcoming SBL CARG session on biblioblogging generated several recent posts from me and from others (See SBL Carg Biblioblog Session ,...

Tyndale Bulletin latest

On BiblicalStudies.org.uk , Rob Bradshaw has the list of contents for the latest Tyndale Bulletin . I must admit that it is a journal I nev...

Idle Musings of a Bookseller

I'll join Joe Cathey in welcoming this new blog, now added to my blogroll: Idle Musings of a Bookseller Idle musings of what it is like...

My SBL Paper

I have uploaded a first draft of my SBL paper: The Rock on Rocky Ground: Matthew, Mark and Peter as Skandalon [PDF] It's for the Matth...

Reduced Nativity Story

This morning's Sunday programme on Radio 4 announced a competition for Christmas to create a "Reduced Nativity Story": Nativi...

The Americanization of Emily

Here's a new blog of particular interest to Brits in America: The Americanization of Emily The author is a certain Viola and the theme o...

Q sceptical Brits?

Over on one of my favourite blogs, The Busybody , Loren Rosson has an interesting post based on Akenson's Saint Saul : Q: Sceptical Brit...

Jesus: Stranger from heaven, Man from heaven or Son of Man?

Over on Euangelion , Michael Bird has an interesting post on a variant in John 3.13, "the Son of Man who is in heaven ". I'd ...

Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films

Also on Codex Blogspot is a post on the Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films . It refers to a list on the Arts and Faith message board: T...

Goliath's Cereal Bowl discovered

The prize for the most entertaining post on the recent important archaeological find goes to Tyler Williams on Codex Blogspot : Giant Pickle...

SBL CARG Biblioblog Session: Relevant Posts

Further to my previous two posts ( Resources for the SBL CARG Biblioblog Session and SBL CARG Biblioblog Session ), I would like to draw at...

Resources for SBL CARG biblioblog session

In my previous post , I began brainstorming about the session on biblioblogs scheduled for the SBL's CARG next week. Here are some of t...

SBL CARG Biblioblog Session

Now that sounds incomprensible to the outsider, doesn't it? It stands for Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Computer Assi...