The harmonizing tradition in Jesus films

In Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson comments on the recent Crossan story about The Passion of the Christ in which there seems to be some cri...

Acts-L homepage

Martin Webber emails to point out that the old Acts-L homepage at Baylor University, along with the archive of older materials, has now disa...

More on the Russian Biblical Studies site

I commented yesterday on Bible Studies - Русские страницы and drew attention to some concerns about articles of mine that have been reprod...

Text of AAR letter on-line

There have been comments here and elsewhere on the AAR decision to hold stand-alone meetings . The AAR web site have now made available the...

Robert Gundry article on The Passion of the Christ

I have commented previously on Robert Gundry's short article on The Passion of the Christ in the SBL Forum's Letters to the Editor...

Stuart Miller on the "Who killed Jesus?" question

It is good to see the SBL Forum continuing to publish Letters to the Editor -- this brings alive the SBL pages as indeed a kind of "f...

Tony Fisher's Greek NT Pages problem

Greg Bloomquist emails me to point out that the late Tony Fisher's Greek New Testament pages have encountered a problem -- one always g...

Exploring New Testament Greek: A Way In

This new book has been announced from SCM Press: Paula Gooder and Peter Kevern, Exploring New Testament Greek: A Way In This practical textb...

Armin Daniel Baum homepage

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson draws attention to: Armin Daniel Baum He is at the Freie Theologische Akademie, Germany and this page feat...

Using Winzip on Pauline authorship

We had a fascinating seminar yesterday in the Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion here in Birmingham. Andy Pryke , from the Schoo...

Russian Biblical Studies site

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for this one. I'm afraid my Russian is non-existent so I have no idea whether this will be a useful site to re...

Panel discussion of The Passion of the Christ

I took part last night in a Panel Discussion of The Passion of the Christ at the Light-House in Wolverhampton. It was an interesting exper...

Another perspective on Simon of Cyrene in The Passion

As regular readers will know, I have commented here several times on the way that the character of Simon of Cyrene, played by Jarreth Merz, ...

Marie-Émile Boismard: Notice Nécrologique

The Ecole Biblique web site announces the sad news that Marie-Émile Boismard died on 23 April: Fr. Marie-Émile Boismard, o. p. (1916-2004):...

50% Scholars Discount for JSNTS

On a recent blog entry on Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson makes some interesting comments on Alan Garrow's forthcoming book, The Gospel o...

Scholarly Smackdown Witherington latest

The latest email from Ben Witherington III has been added to beliefnet's Scholarly Smackdown on Jesus and Paul conducted between Elaine ...

Daniel Lapin asks Jewish activists to apologise to Mel

Thanks to Arne Halbakken for this link from WorldNetDaily Jewish activists: Apologize to Mel Posted: April 24, 2004 By Rabbi Daniel Lapin Ev...

Jeffrey Staley on John

Some new additions (and one update) to the Gospel of John Books and Articles page. These are all Word documents and are from Jeffrey Stale...

Scot McKnight, Jesus and the Twelve

Another addition to the Historical Jesus: Books and Articles page: Scot McKnight, “Jesus and the Twelve” , IBR Studies (no date), Institut...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

I am going to make up for being late on this last week by noting the latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature as soon as it's ...

Didache Garrow

A forthcoming book of interest in the JSNTS series: Alan Garrow, The Gospel of Matthew's Dependence of Didache (London and New York: T...

HTR on-line

Andrew Gregerman emails with the note that in my Featured Links: July 2001 I had a bunch of references to the FindArticles.com reproduction...

Latest Explorator

Don't forget to look at the latest Explorator from David Meadows: Explorator 6.52 One paragraph from New York Times linked there caught...

The Passion, Pornography and Polemic

I am so used to linking to and commenting on others' reviews and articles about The Passion of the Christ that it feels odd to point to...

Vermes on The Passion of the Christ

Geza Vermes's article from The Guardian on The Passion of the Christ ( see blog entry on ) has now been reproduced on the Bible and In...

Jim Davila reviews The Passion of the Christ

On Paleojudaica, Jim Davila has some interesting and insightful comments on The Passion of the Christ : REVIEW of Mel Gibson's The Passi...

Robert Webb on Jesus' Baptism

A new addition to the Historical Jesus: Books and Articles page: Robert L. Webb, “Jesus' Baptism: Its Historicity and Implications” , I...

Unicode: Tyndale Tech and some thoughts on Greek

David Instone-Brewer has uploaded to the web the latest of his Tyndale Tech newsletters (with thanks to Jim Davila on Paleojudaica for the ...

John Ashton, Religious Experience of Jesus

The latest addition to the Historical Jesus: Books and Articles page is this article from my former teacher John Ashton of the University o...

More Crossan

The media can't get enough of John Dominic Crossan at the moment. This one, alerted in Bible and Interpretation , is from the Daily New...

Panel Discussion, Passion of the Christ

The Light House in Wolverhampton (U.K.) has an event on next Tuesday following one of its screenings of The Passion of the Christ and I...

Top Ten Bible News sites

Both Rubén Gómez on Bible Software Review Weblog and Jim West on Biblical Theology refer to this list: Top Ten Bible News sites It's l...

Crossan on the Four Gospels

Bible and Interpretation link to a short but interesting article on John Dominic Crossan in Wisconsin's Capital Times : Author stresses...

Robert Gundry on The Passion of the Christ

Robert Gundry has a very interesting letter in the current SBL Forum : Letters to the Editor The letter (more of a short article) is headed ...

AAR stands firm on stand-alone meetings

Also on Deinde , news of a response to the AAR Joint Meetings Petition headed by Karen King and Elaine Pagels. It seems that the petition ...

Deinde on The Myth of the Paperless Church

On Deinde "Tsar" makes some useful comments on Harold Scanlin's The Myth of the Paperless Church: Codex, Cognition and Christ...

Carlson on The Passion Part 2

Part 2 of Stephen Carlson's reflections on The Passion of the Christ is now available on Hypotyposeis . The topic is the question of t...

Nigerian Association of Biblical Studies

This notice is posted on behalf of Dapo Asaju. Please correspond with him at the address below. 17th Annual Conference of Nabis -----------...

Francis Moloney comments on The Passion of the Christ

Thanks to Gail Dawson for the link to this article from The Tower Online , the newsletter for the Catholic University of America (free regis...

Paul Flesher and more

I have had a look around and have found a web page for Paul Flesher (see Flesher lecture on The Passion of the Christ ): Introducing Paul Fl...

Troy Martin

On Scholars: M I have added a link to the following: Troy W. Martin St Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The page includes a ful...

Journal of Religion and Society on The Passion of the Christ

On Paleojudaica Jim Davila draws attention to The Journal of Religion and Society 6 (2004) , a special edition on The Passion of the Chris...

James Tabor on The Passion of the Christ

When commenting on Waco earlier today, I noticed that James Tabor has flagged up a new entry on his Jewish Roman World of Jesus : Personal ...

Harold Scanlin article on the SBL Forum

A new addition on the SBL Forum and continuing its digital technologies theme: The Myth of the Paperless Church: Codex, Cognition, and Chri...

Schmisek, Chancey and Osiek on The Passion of the Christ

Bible and Interpretation point to this article in the Texas Catholic Newspaper : 'The Passion of the Christ' WAS IT AS IT WAS? Bibl...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

I am a bit late on the latest from the Review of Biblical Literature . Some New Testament reviews: Gathercole, Simon J. Where Is Boasting?:...

Deinde: Discussion and Resources for Biblical Scholars

This new web site is available: Deinde: Discussion and Resources for Biblical Scholars It is run by Paul Nikkel (graduate student at the Uni...

Flesher Lecture on The Passion of the Christ

Bible and Interpretation's Essays From Bible and Interpretation on the Passion adds a link to a video presentation by Paul Flesher: “Th...

Carlson on The Passion of the Christ

On Hypotyposeis Stephen Carlson has published the first part of his thoughts on The Passion of the Christ : My thoughts on The Passion of t...

Hypotyposeis thriving again

It is good to see Stephen Carlson's Hypotyposeis blog back with a vengeance. If, like me, you read all your blogs via Bloglines , you ...

Why Waco?

Also well worth mentioning is James Tabor and Eugene Gallagher, Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America (California...

Waco

On this day when in 1993 77 cult members died in a fire at their compound in Waco. This morning's Guardian publishes an article from i...

Blog break

The NTGateway blog is taking a break over the weekend but will be back on Monday. If you are waiting for an email from me at the moment, le...

Latest from Bible and Interpretation on The Passion

Bible and Interpretation continues its series of essays on The Passion of the Christ with this one focusing not on the film itself (he has...

St Andrews Conference on Old Testament Interpretation and the Social Sciences

This notice posted on behalf of Prof. Philip Esler: ------------------------------ The St Andrews Conference on Old Testament Interpretation...

Review of The Passion of the Christ by Helen-Ann Hartley

Thanks to Helen-Ann Hartley, Wilkinson Junior Research Fellow and Assistant Dean, Worcester College, Oxford, for sending over her thoughts o...