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...

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...