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...