How long did it take to walk from Nazareth to Sepphoris?

James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003): 298, ". . . the youthful Jesus would have (regularly?) visited Sepp...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Burridge, Richard A. What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Greco...

"You say so"

On the ever-interesting Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean , Phil Harland has a post on Mark, "Who is this guy? The Gospel of Mark ...

PDF Problems

Several have commented on my post from this morning on Paula Fredriksen's PDFs . As predicted, when I got to class today, almost everyo...

Did Jesus "declare all foods clean"?

There's an interesting blog thread at the moment surrounding James G. Crossley's The Date of Mark's Gospel: Insight from the Law...

Paula Fredriksen PDFs

I've often praised the way that Paula Fredriksen has PDFs of lots of her key articles on her homepage and I sometimes set them as readi...

A good introduction to Textual Criticism?

In comments , Sean du Toit asks if I could recommend a good introduction to Textual Criticism. Indeed I can: David Parker, The Living Text...