Commencement 2006 Pictures

Back in May, I attended my first Commencement at Duke, and spoke at our Religion gathering (I posted here some reflections, A Brit at Duke ,...

Death of David Hay

I was very sorry to hear of the death of David Hay today, reported on Philo of Alexandria Blog by Torrey Seland: David M. Hay 1935-2006

Term starts at Duke

It's my first full academic year at Duke and so I am experiencing an August beginning of term for the first time ever. It is the strang...

Euangelion moves

Michael Bird's blog has moved to this new URL: Euangelion and Joel Willitts is now his co-blogger (and probably has been for a little wh...

Daniel Kirk's blog

At my previous institution, the University of Birmingham, there were many bloggers, especially among the graduate students in NT (and that...

Teaching Paul

As the sole teacher of New Testament in the Department of Religion at Duke, it falls to me to alternate each semester between teaching the...

SBL Midatlantic Region

The Midatlantic Region of the Society of Biblical Literature has announced their plenary speaker for 2007 and it is . . . me! I am gratefu...