Why is the Historical Jesus Quest so difficult?

I begin a course on the Historical Jesus at Duke tomorrow and I am putting together the teaching materials at the moment. As I introduce th...

The Verhoeven Jesus film

Over on FilmChat , Peter Chattaway mentions this New York Times piece: Paul Verhoeven Goes to War One More Time By DENNIS LIM the second h...

Should we blog our pre-publication ideas?

In James Crossley's interesting recent blogger of the month interview, he makes the following comment: I think it is pretty clear to an...

Gospel of Judas books galore

In On Not Being a Sausage Deirdre Good has a useful round-up on the New Books on the Gospel of Judas and it is a surprising number. She m...

Biblical Studies Carnival XIII and January's biblioblogger

Tyler Williams has published the latest Biblical Studies Carnival and it's another fantastic round-up. One of these days someone will c...

Christmas Bible TV

Before going away, I blogged briefly on upcoming Christmas TV of interest to the topic of this blog ( Christmas TV on Bible Films and The S...

Happy new year

Happy new year to everyone. I am just back from a great Christmas and new year and look forward to getting back to blogging soon. (The li...