Nativity theatrical trailer

As Peter Chattaway notes on FilmChat , the theatrical trailer is now available on the website of The Nativity Story , the forthcoming film b...

More Americanizing

I have a guest post on The Americanization of Emily (with editor's annotations) on Great British Grub .

Galatians and Acts in film

Over on Bible Films Blog , Matt Page has an excellent post on the way that different films have treated the discrepancies between Acts and G...

Pope affirms importance of Gospel of Thomas and Acts of Thomas

Well, I am being a little cheeky in making that the headline of this post since it refers to only one sentence, but it's nice to see the...

The Jerusalem Council: Gal. 2.1-10 = Acts 15

One of the big issues, perhaps the biggest issue, in Pauline chronology relates to the location of the Jerusalem council. Is the incident n...

What's New in Paypyrology blog

I have added What's New in Papyrology to my blogroll (HT: Stoa Consortium ). It's by G. Schwendner (Wichita State University).

A Chronological Clue in Acts 9.25

One of these days I will get around to my post on why I'm sure, with the majority, that Gal. 2.1-10 and Acts 15 are essentially accounts...

SBL Midatlantic Region Paper Title

I was asked this morning for my title for my paper at the SBL Midatlantic Region next March. I was asked to speak on Q, and my title is go...

Jesus & Utopia: Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World

Latest from Fortress: --- “Mary Ann Beavis locates Jesus’ teaching about the Basileia of God in a richly drawn landscape of ancient utopian ...

Biblical Studies Bulletin 41

The latest Biblical Studies Bulletin from Grove Books and connected with Ridley Hall, Cambridge is now available on-line: Biblical Studies B...

A Year in America

A year ago today we arrived in North Carolina, USA, having left Birmingham on Tuesday 20 September, flown from London Gatwick on Wednesday...

Jesus sighting: Jeremy Sisto

A major Jesus sighting in the USA tonight on the premiere of NBC's Kidnapped . Jeremy Sisto , best known here for his portrayal of Jesu...

Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? III

[See also Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? I and Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? II ] I am grateful to Michael Pahl on The S...

Reading the Bible Responsibly —A Theological Rationale for Postmodern Interpretation

New from Fortress: --- Reading the Bible Responsibly — A Theological Rationale for Postmodern Interpretation MINNEAPOLIS (September 18, 2006...

New Chorus of Women’s Voices Engages the Bible Critically

Latest from Fortress: -- "This book is a treasure of focused illustrations, from many cultural perspectives, of how women’s consciousne...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: David A. Ackerman Lo, I Tell You a Mystery: Cross, Resurrection, an...

Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? II

In comments here and in a post today on Busybody , The Difficulty of Dating Galatians , Loren Rosson asks about the relationship of the fol...

Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians?

I've been doing some thinking about Pauline Chronology recently and one thing that consistently surprises me is that 1 Corinthians is so...

Brondos Reframes Pauline Theology

This is the latest from Fortress (strange -- all this free advertising and still not a free book in sight): --- Brondos Reframes Pauline The...

The Pope on Harnack and the New Testament -- and Muslims

Pope Benedict's recent speech at the University of Regensburg in Germany (September 12), a celebration of the role played by logos as r...

Moreschini and Norelli, The Letters of Paul and of the Pauline Tradition

Many thanks to Holger Szesnat for this one, which I've just added to the Paul: Books and Articles page: Claudio Moreschini and Enrico N...

Split between Paul and Barnabas II

I posted some thoughts the other day on the Split between Paul and Barnabas , wondering whether it might help us with some of those vexing i...

Teaching Notes 3: A Q Sceptic takes on Q

[Previous posts in this semester's Teaching Notes series: Teaching Paul ; Teaching Notes 1 ; Teaching Notes 2: Playing with Paul on Powe...

N. T. Wright on Trusting the Gospels

Over on Paleojudaica , Jim Davila draws attention to this new piece on Beliefnet : Can We Trust the Gospels? None of the Gnostic texts--or a...

Unnecessary abbreviation

I mentioned earlier a review of Mark Chancey's recent book and it gives me the opportunity to make a minor gripe. The reviewer begins ...

Richard Hays gives Prevatte Lecture Series

This news release appears on Campbell University 's website and relates to a renowned colleague at Duke: Campbell Divinity School to hos...

Mark Chancey, Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus

On his Novum Testamentum blog , Brandon Wason draws attention to this BMCR Review: Mark A. Chancey, Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of J...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading: David Brakke Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritu...

The Split between Paul and Barnabas

I have been wondering recently whether Barnabas might help us with some of the vexed problems of sorting out Paul's chronology. Paul an...

Introduction to Textual Criticism

Following on from Pete Williams 's question about the best introduction to textual criticism, Stephen Carlson offers his opinion. Deba...

Source Theory Blog

Let me join Stephen Carlson in his welcome to Tim Lewis's new blog, Source Theory , which aims to "introduce the Synoptic Problem ...

Electronic editions of LNTS / JSNTS

Many thanks to Daniel Foster for the following news from Logos Software: ----- We now have three prepublication products on offer that inclu...

10,000 + spam messages

Is anyone else getting spammed furiously at the moment? Most of my spam goes straight into my Gmail spam folder -- Gmail has a pretty good ...

Paula on Paul

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila draws attention to a great interview with Paula Fredriksen on Vision : Interviews: Paula Fredriksen Paul and Pa...

Judith Newman on Scripturalization

It's good to see the following abstract mentioned on Torrey Seland's Philo of Alexandria blog: Judith H. Newman, University of Toro...

Zhubert addition of LSJ

The fantastic Zhubert.com has now added access to Liddell-Scott (as well as Middle Liddell) via the Perseus site (see LSJ and Middle Liddel...

Teaching Notes 2: Playing with Paul on Powerpoint

[See also Teaching Paul and Teaching Notes 1 ] Monday night was the second of my classes on The Life and Letters of Paul, another two-and-a...