SBL Pauline Epistles Paper

I made two proposals to the SBL Annual Meeting to be held in Washington, DC in November this year. The first, for the Bible in Ancient and...

Gospel of Judas availability

On Xtalk , James Spinti notes that he has "just received word that the official availability date for the "Gospel of Judas" i...

Death of Daryl Schmidt

I was very sorry to read in Jim West's blog of the death of Daryl Schmidt on 21 March. The announcement also appears on the Westar Ins...

Beyond Belief on Judas

Next Monday's Beyond Belief is advertising a programme on Judas: Monday 27 March 2006 Judas Not many babies are called Judas these days...

NTGateway Blog Cloud

Following Ben Myers , Joe Cathey , Jim West and others, here is my Blog Cloud .

More of Alan Bandy's Interviews

The fine series of interviews on fellow North Carolinian Alan Bandy's blog Cafe Apocalypsis takes a serious dip in quality with the fol...

Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Sheffield

A post has been advertised in New Testament at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Biblical Studies . Full details here: Lect...

"Faith and scholarship" blog thread

Over on Deinde , Danny Zacharias is doing a great job of tracking all the relevant blog posts on the current thread on "faith and schol...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Arterbury, Andrew Entertaining Angels: Early Christian Ho...

Gospel of Judas on Sunday

The lead feature on this morning's Sunday programme on Radio 4 was on the Gospel of Judas. Simon Gathercole , Senior Lecturer in New ...

Magdalene Review various

Lesa Bellevie's Magdalene Review is always well worth a read and I enjoyed the reflections today on the issue of the women's witnes...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Dettwiler, Andreas, Jean-Daniel Kaestli, and Daniel Marguerat, eds....

Around the biblioblogs

Brandon Wason and Jim West continue their good job of interviewing the bibliobloggers over on Biblioblogs.com , and in March it is the turn ...

Bart Ehrman on The Daily Show

I heard about this but forgot to mention it; Jim West notes on Xtalk and Biblical Studies that Bart Ehrman appeared on The Daily Show with...

Gospel of Judas Book Details

On Xtalk James Spinti has the bibliographical details for the new books on the Gospel of Judas: -- The titles and bibliographic information...

The Book of Bart

No doubt other bloggers have noticed this; I spotted it on fellow NC NT blogger blog Dave Black on-line . But it's worth mentioning, a...

Fifth Greek Study Day for Teachers of Greek

This notice is from Jane McLarty: -- Helping Students over the Hurdles in Reading the New Testament in Greek Fifth study day for teachers of...

How to cope without British TV and Radio II @ The Americanization of Emily

No fresh blog posts here today, but I have a non-NT guest blog on The Americanization of Emily , a follow-up to my earlier post there, How t...

More on Jesus' House

I posted recently on the topic, Did Jesus have a house in Capernaum? and I am grateful for a bunch of comments, emails and links to the pos...

Jesus, Torah, Sanders, Hengel and Deines

Over on Euangelion , Michael Bird has a post headed Jesus and Torah: I featuring a quotation from Martin Hengel and Roland Deines, ‘E.P. Sa...

Context and Nuance in Jesus' Sayings

One of the reasons I am sceptical about the laudable aim to recover the sayings of Jesus, and to use a sayings itinerary in reconstructions ...

Prophetisch-messianische Provokateure der Pax Romana

This from James Spinti at Eisenbrauns: -- Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce the availability of the following title: From Eisenbrauns' ...

When Prophecy Became Passion

I have had a few requests for a copy of the Swan Lecture I gave at the Nebraska Wesleyan University a fortnight ago ( blog entry here ) so I...

Electronic Critical Edition of 1 Clement

On ITSEE news from the University of Birmingham comes this important announcement: Aaron W. Neill has completed his electronic critical edi...

Malina and Pilch Shine A Brilliant New Light on the World of Paul

This press release arrived today from Fortress. Several of us are already familiar with the book because of Loren Rosson's "heads ...

Jesus on Trial -- What Really Happened

This is in from Fortress Press: -- Jesus on Trial—What Really Happened MINNEAPOLIS (February 28, 2006)— How did Jesus, a much-loved and high...

Rivals of Jesus

Thanks to Eric Meyers, my colleague in the Dept of Religion here, for this interesting notice. The programme features Prof. Meyers and no d...

Biblical Studies Carnival -- and its value

The next Biblical Studies Carnival is posted at Ricoblog: Biblical Studies Carnival III I'd like to add a word of huge appreciation to T...

Did Jesus have a house in Capernaum?

I've always been intrigued with this verse in Mark, as suggesting that Jesus may have had a house in Capernaum: Mark 2.15: καὶ γίνεται κ...