The Nativity Story: The Review's Up

My review of The Nativity Story is now up on the SBL Forum . If you read my earlier, initial thoughts here, you will recognise some of it, ...

Christmas TV on Bible Films

Matt Page has usefully gathered together details of Christmas Bible Related Films and Programmes on UK TV . I have already commented on The...

Bill Peterson

I was sorry to hear this morning of the death of Bill Peterson (via Evangelical Textual Criticism , via Hugoye ). I was lucky to meet Bill ...

Christmas break

It's almost time for the NTGateway blog to take its traditional Christmas break. This may be my last post for a little. My blogging ma...

The Secret Family of Jesus: Channel 4 Documentary

It turns out that this year's religious documentary offering from Channel 4 on Christmas day is a piece exploring Jesus' family. Fr...

E. P. Sanders on the Uniqueness of Jesus' Teaching

Rob Bradshaw continues his fantastic work on BiblicalStudies.org.uk of making available a huge range of on-line articles and lectures. The...

Third annual Ralphies

Over on Ralph the Sacred River , Ed Cook has announced the Third Annual Ralphies , the little bit of annual indulgence among bibliobloggers ...

The Inquiry

Over on Filmchat , Petter Chattaway has news about an interesting new film called The Inquiry : The new film, which premieres December 28 at...

Bernard Orchard: Obituaries

The death of Dom. Bernard Orchard was reported in Hypotyposeis last week, following on from a note on Synoptic-L from Peter Head pointing ...

Blogs various

Today seems to be a bit of a catching-up day on the blog, so here are a few things I've wanted to mention for a while. I didn't get...

The Nativity Story: Chattaway's take

Peter Chattaway's articles and reviews are always well worth reading, especially when it comes to Bible films. I wanted to wait to read...

Neotestamentica 40.1 (2006)

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for the note that abstracts, book reviews, and two sample articles (D. E. Aune and F. P. Viljoen) of the latest Neo...

Pick of the day: A Guide to Grading Exams

If I had a "pick of the day" feature on the NTGateway blog, this would be today's, from the Concurring Opinions blog by Danie...

Tens of thousands of spam

Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam . Eventually I got fed up of it. 20,000 spam messages in the last 48 hours, and this is get...

Why aren't there more good plays about Jesus?

Today's Guardian has an interesting article by a playwright who wants to know why there are so few good plays about Jesus: The greatest...

Pick of the day: Sigma

If I had a "pick of the day" feature, this would be today's, on Laudator Temporis Acti : Sigma Read about sigma, final sigma, ...

Paul Quiz

Beliefnet has a quiz on Paul out today: Christianity Quiz: All About Paul My Paul class handed in their final assignments today, but you do...

Microsoft Book Search

Thanks to Jim West for news of this new resources: Live Search Books Like Google Books, it has plenty of public domain books in full view d...

Poirier vs. Tabor

Jack Poirier has a review of James Tabor's Jesus Dynasty online at the Jerusalem Perspective website: Book Review: James Tabor’s The J...

St Paul's sarcophagus

Back in February 2005, stories about the discovery of Paul's tomb began to circulate in the media (see Archaeologists discover Paul'...

The Nativity Story: What the Scholars Say

I have seen only a handful of reviews from New Testament scholars on The Nativity Story . Given the plethora of reviews they put out on The...

Three million visits today

At some point today, the NT Gateway should receive its three millionth visitor. As I write it is standing at 2,999,482 visits in 8,046,448 ...

Nativity Story Quiz

Beliefnet asks: How Well Do You Know the Nativity Story? Some of the questions are a bit dubious, but it's worth doing so that you can e...

The Nativity Story: My Review (continued)

The Nativity Story was released in the US last Friday, 1 December, and my first viewing of the film was on Saturday 2nd. Here follows my r...

Nativity Story reviews

On Bible Films , Matt Page has his review of The Nativity Story up; here's an excerpt: Yet despite its uniqueness, it can't quite d...

Biblical Studies Carnival XII

Dr Jim West has done a cracking job with the latest Biblical Studies Carnival -- thorough, detailed, witty and very nicely structured. Man...

Scholars: G

I've updated the Scholars: G page, with new URLs for Sigurd Grindheim and Judith Gundry-Volf .

SBL Annual Meeting General Reflections

A few random thoughts: (1) I can't say that I am too keen on the extension of the meeting backwards towards Saturday at 9 a.m. I used t...

SBL Day 5 (Tuesday)

The Tuesday morning of the SBL is, it has to be said, a bit of a damp squib. As a punter, one is best off when one has a latish flight and ...

SBL Day 4 (Monday)

After our Synoptics Steering Committee breakfast, it was the SBL Forum Advisory Board meeting. Shortly afterwards I had a meeting of the Li...

SBL Day 3 (Sunday)

Sunday's breakfast meeting was the University of Birmingham reception and a great pleasure to see old friends. I was really annoyed las...

SBL Day 2 (Saturday)

One of the changes in recent years is the arrival of 9 a.m. meetings. I can't say I am too keen on this innovation. That extra morning...

SBL Day 1 (Friday)

Going to the SBL Annual Meeting when you are living in the USA is a different experience from going to it from abroad. You don't have t...

Back from SBL

I arrived back in rainy North Carolina an hour or so ago after a good SBL, beginning last Friday and ending this morning. I drove up to Was...

SBL Pauline Epistles Handout

I've uploaded my handout for my SBL Pauline Epistles paper on Galatians: Already Circumcised? Paul's Letter of Rebuke to Apostate Ga...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? VII

This is the seventh post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? VI

This is the sixth post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already C...

Using technology in conferences presentations: some advice

With the SBL Annual Meeting on the horizon, here are some thoughts about the use of technology in conference presentations. These emerge pa...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? V

This is the fifth post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already C...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? IV

This is the fourth post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already ...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? III

This is the third post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I and Were the Galatians Alread...

Jacques Berlinerblau on the SBL

Jacques Berlinerblau’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education , What’s Wrong With the Society of Biblical Literature? (Nov. 10 2006) ...