SBL Day 4 (Monday)

After our Synoptics Steering Committee breakfast, it was the SBL Forum Advisory Board meeting. Shortly afterwards I had a meeting of the Li...

SBL Pauline Epistles Handout

I've uploaded my handout for my SBL Pauline Epistles paper on Galatians: Already Circumcised? Paul's Letter of Rebuke to Apostate Ga...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? VII

This is the seventh post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? VI

This is the sixth post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already C...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? V

This is the fifth post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already C...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? IV

This is the fourth post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I , Were the Galatians Already ...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? III

This is the third post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I and Were the Galatians Alread...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? II

This is the second post in the current series and it follows on from Were the Galatians Already Circumcised? I . One of the features that ha...

Were the Galatians already circumcised? I

This post begins a series in which I am looking to explore a controversial reading of the background to Paul's epistle to the Galatians....

Paul's loss of Galatia II

In a previous post, Paul's loss of Galatia I , I began to outline why I think Paul lost the Churches of Galatia, following on from earli...

Paul's loss of Galatia I

In previous posts, I have suggested that Paul lost the battle in Galatia (see Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians ; cf. also Does Galatia...

Paul's lack of travel plans in Galatians

I have suggested previously that it is likely that Paul lost the battle in Galatia (see Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians ; cf. also Do...

The Jerusalem Council: Gal. 2.1-10 = Acts 15: Response to Critics

I am very grateful to those who have commented with such intelligence and insight on my recent post on The Jerusalem Council: Gal. 2.1-10 = ...

Galatians and Acts in film

Over on Bible Films Blog , Matt Page has an excellent post on the way that different films have treated the discrepancies between Acts and G...

The Jerusalem Council: Gal. 2.1-10 = Acts 15

One of the big issues, perhaps the biggest issue, in Pauline chronology relates to the location of the Jerusalem council. Is the incident n...

Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? III

[See also Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? I and Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? II ] I am grateful to Michael Pahl on The S...

Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians? II

In comments here and in a post today on Busybody , The Difficulty of Dating Galatians , Loren Rosson asks about the relationship of the fol...

Does Galatians post-date 1 Corinthians?

I've been doing some thinking about Pauline Chronology recently and one thing that consistently surprises me is that 1 Corinthians is so...

Split between Paul and Barnabas II

I posted some thoughts the other day on the Split between Paul and Barnabas , wondering whether it might help us with some of those vexing i...

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...