How long did it take to walk from Nazareth to Sepphoris?

James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003): 298, ". . . the youthful Jesus would have (regularly?) visited Sepp...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Burridge, Richard A. What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Greco...

"You say so"

On the ever-interesting Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean , Phil Harland has a post on Mark, "Who is this guy? The Gospel of Mark ...

PDF Problems

Several have commented on my post from this morning on Paula Fredriksen's PDFs . As predicted, when I got to class today, almost everyo...

Did Jesus "declare all foods clean"?

There's an interesting blog thread at the moment surrounding James G. Crossley's The Date of Mark's Gospel: Insight from the Law...

Paula Fredriksen PDFs

I've often praised the way that Paula Fredriksen has PDFs of lots of her key articles on her homepage and I sometimes set them as readi...

A good introduction to Textual Criticism?

In comments , Sean du Toit asks if I could recommend a good introduction to Textual Criticism. Indeed I can: David Parker, The Living Text...

Lüdemann on The Intolerant Gospel

Thanks to Gerd Lüdemann for drawing my attention to a new article on-line: The Intolerant Gospel Gerd Luedemann It is from the February-Marc...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Brooke, George J. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament Review...

Crum available at Wipf and Stock

I was pleased to hear on the Gospel of Thomas e-list recently, from Simon Gathercole, that Walter Crum's Coptic Dictionary is now avai...

American Jesus scholarship coming of age?

I am preparing a lecture at the moment on the contemporary scene in Historical Jesus scholarship (having taking a lecture on Schweitzer, the...

Textual criticism and text critics

I am just preparing an introductory lecture on Textual Criticism for my New Testament class and I fell to wondering why it is that everyone ...

SBL Forum latest and Graphic Novels

It's always interesting to read the latest in the SBL Forum , which continues to go from strength to strength (though, as I have often s...

New Jesus film: Son of Man

Regular readers will not be surprised to hear of my excitement at the news of a new Jesus film, Son of Man , already mentioned in November b...

End of Biblical Theology blog

I don't seem to have so much time to hang around on-line these days, alas, and I was quite surprised on my return to the land of the blo...

The Email Mountain

My apologies if you are awaiting a reply from me; the email mountain is enormous this week, and without losing more sleep I don't have ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Bolt, Peter G. Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Ea...

Crossan on the web

I finished getting together my syllabus for a course on the Historical Jesus tonight, and in the process of hunting down sources and referen...

David Starkey on Paul

A few minutes ago, just before the beginning of the Today programme, there was a little trailer for the following: Who Killed Christianity?...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

The latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Bovon, François Studies in Early Christianity Reviewed by H. H....

Fortress Press Presents Teaching Awards

This Press Release is from Fortress: Fortress Press Presents Teaching Awards MINNEAPOLIS (December 20, 2005)-Fortress Press presented two te...

Response to Lüdemann on Lüdemann's homepage

Just before Christmas, some readers will remember that I engaged in a discussion of Gerd Lüdemann's press release The Christmas Stories ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest (belated)

Among the many emails in my pending tray is one I've missed that I try always to blog, the latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Litera...

Biblical Studies Bulletin latest

The latest edition of the Biblical Studies Bulletin from Grove Books and edited by Michael Thompson is now availbale on-line. It's alw...

Fredriksen On the Passion of the Christ

I was just looking at Paula Fredriksen's web page -- I am putting together teaching materials for a course on the Historical Jesus and ...

NT Gateway updates (or the lack of them)

I am getting a lot of emails at the moment asking me to add things to the New Testament Gateway , new resources, URLs to change and so on. ...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all readers of the NT Gateway blog. We have returned to the USA after an excellent break in the UK (details on The Americ...

Second Annual Ralphies

I am beginning to work through my bloglines backlog of posts and still with hundreds to go, I realize to my horror that some go back weeks. ...