British New Testament Conference 2006

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila reminds us that the British New Testament Conference 2006 gets underway this afternoon in Sheffield. In fact, ...

Apostle Matthew's Grave

On RogueClassicism , David Meadows notes a story on the Apostle Matthew's burial place, from Radio Free Europe : Burial Place Of Apostle...

Marcus Borg on Jesus' Mighty Deeds

Beliefnet have published a short article by Marcus Borg: The Mighty Deeds of Jesus Are there limits to the spectacular? By Marcus Borg It lo...

Burnett Hillman Streeter by John Court

The latest Expository Times (Volume 118, no. 1, October 2006) is announced today and it includes a most enjoyable piece on the life of B. H...

Next Biblical Studies Carnival

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson posts the last call for the ninth Biblical Studies Carnival . You can use the submission form at Blogcarn...

Donfried on Paul, Luther and the New Perspective

The September 2006 edition of The Lutheran features the following article: Reading Paul (& Luther) today New learnings about the apostl...

Religion Timelines: Jewish History + Christian History

On the Stoa Consortium , Juan Garcés draws attention to a post on Semantic Humanities which references this remarkable new utility from MIT...

Teaching Notes 1

Further to my previous comments on beginning teaching again, I thought I might introduce a new feature here, where I give myself a little s...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Luc Devillers La saga de Siloé: Jésus et la fete des Tente (Jean 7,...

Commencement 2006 Pictures

Back in May, I attended my first Commencement at Duke, and spoke at our Religion gathering (I posted here some reflections, A Brit at Duke ,...

Death of David Hay

I was very sorry to hear of the death of David Hay today, reported on Philo of Alexandria Blog by Torrey Seland: David M. Hay 1935-2006

Term starts at Duke

It's my first full academic year at Duke and so I am experiencing an August beginning of term for the first time ever. It is the strang...

Euangelion moves

Michael Bird's blog has moved to this new URL: Euangelion and Joel Willitts is now his co-blogger (and probably has been for a little wh...

Daniel Kirk's blog

At my previous institution, the University of Birmingham, there were many bloggers, especially among the graduate students in NT (and that...

Teaching Paul

As the sole teacher of New Testament in the Department of Religion at Duke, it falls to me to alternate each semester between teaching the...

SBL Midatlantic Region

The Midatlantic Region of the Society of Biblical Literature has announced their plenary speaker for 2007 and it is . . . me! I am gratefu...

Call for Papers: Textual Criticism: Theological and Social Tendencies?

Over on ITSEE News at the University of Birmingham is notice of a call for papers : -- The Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Critic...

Lazarus, Mary and Martha

This press release is from Fortress: -- Why the Lazarus Story Meant So Much to Early Christians MINNEAPOLIS (August 10, 2006)—The story of L...

MiniFlash Greek and Hebrew

Thanks to Jamie Macleod for letting me know of a new URL for his MiniFlash software: MiniFlash I've made the adjustment on the Computer ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

The latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading is surely the richest offering ever, both in terms of books revi...

End of blogging holiday

Although I did break into the blogging holiday with the odd post here and there, the blogging holiday has now officially ended and normal se...

SBL Review of Biblical Literature

I break again briefly from my blogging holiday, currently in Cambridge in England, to give the links to the latest from the SBL Review of Bi...