Songs of Praise

Just before I dash off again, a quick note about this Sunday's Songs of Praise on BBC1, 17.10-17.45: Songs of Praise Jonathan Edwards p...

So What Colour Was Jesus?

It's half term week here in the UK, which means the desperate attempt to juggle an already overloaded work schedule with the kids being ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the SBL's Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Barker, Margaret The Great High Priest: The Temple...

Wright latest

I referred recently to Wright on the Lambeth Commission . He also has a piece in The Tablet The Windsor Report is a Step Towards Maturity (...

First Christian Document?

Here's the link to the "listen again" of the programme about The Didache and featuring Alan Garrow: The First Christian Docum...

Jesus the Black Icon

Yesterday's Guardian featured this article, the result of a poll in black newspaper New Nation : Jesus the black icon tops list of grea...

Elaine Pagels interviews

The Memphis Flyer has this interview with Elaine Pagels: The Gospel Truth Elaine Pagels: writer on the Word. LEONARD GILL It's a short ...

Sheffield Phoenix Website

At least a couple of other bibliobloggers have already noticed this, but I wanted to mention it myself since David Clines asked me to. Shef...

Jesus Film Project on the Internet

Jim West draws my attention to this from the Corvallis Gazette Times : Much-seen film ‘Jesus' will go onto Internet Twenty-five years si...

Radio 4 on The First Christian Document?

BBC Radio 4 are advertising a programme at the moment to be broadcast next Monday at 8 p.m.: The First Christian Document? Christianity as a...

Wright on the Lambeth Commission

I tend to avoid extensive discussion in this blog of Church politics except where it directly impinges on, relates to or comes out of New Te...

Scripturalization in Mark's Crucifixion Narrative

I've uploaded, temporarily at least, a copy of my paper for the SBL Annual Meeting Mark Group : Scripturalization in Mark's Crucifix...

Fun with the SBL Programme

I having one of my late nights doing some writing tonight, nowadays the only way I can get any writing done given supremely crowded, overwor...

VanderKam on the High Priests

This press release is from Fortress Press: James VanderKam Assembles the First History of the Jewish High Priests MINNEAPOLIS (October 18, 2...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Baur, F. C. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Works...

Private Publishing and Harmonizing

[Writing on the train on the way down to London; having to get up every five minutes to close the door to stop a massive breeze.] My post L...

Lament over a new Gospel harmony

On Deinde, Danny Zacharias offers a lament on a new book that harmonises the Gospels (a book also mentioned to me by Jim West , who also blo...

Blogroll

I have moved over to publishing my Bloglines Blogroll in the left-hand column. This makes my blogroll easier to update. The days of codin...

The Coding Humanist

This has recently been mentioned on both Hypotyposeis and goranh , which has reminded me that I had a nice email from the author of this bl...

Guardian investigates academic blogs

A colleague today handed me a useful article from The Guardian Online all about academic blogging. It's a couple of weeks old now but ...

SBL Forum latest

The October content on the SBL Forum has now appeared: SBL Forum It's looking a bit sparser than usual this month; perhaps there is more...

Carlson colours the Synopsis again

The world is divided into those who enjoying colouring their Synopsis and those who do not. Well, that's one way I like to divide the w...

Wright on Galatians

Another new addition to the N. T. Wright page -- what a fine and comprehensive resource it has become: Gospel and Theology in Galatians N. ...

Caviezel as Superman?

While on the topic, and also in homage to Christopher Reeve who died yesterday, the rumours about Jim Caviezel (Jesus in The Passion of the ...

James Carroll on The Passion and Anti-Semitism

I mention this not because it's well-observed or well-written (it isn't) but because it typifies what is problematic about so many o...

Review of Bibical Literature latest

Latest from the Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading: Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Spiritual Exercises Based on Paul's Epistle to ...

More on the James Ossuary

On Biblical Theology , Jim West notes the latest on Biblical Archaeology Society's updates on the saga of the James Ossuary: Hebrew Scri...

Farrer on-line

There are several on-line resources connected with Austin Farrer and I thought I would gather them together here on this, the centenary of h...

Austin Farrer Centenary

Today is the centenary of the birth of Austin Marsden Farrer on 11 October 1904. Farrer, who died in 1968, was a fine philosopher and relig...

Death of Derrida

On Christian Origins , Peter Kirby notes the death of Jacques Derrida on Friday, aged 74. This is the BBC News story: Deconstruction icon D...

Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

On the Textual Criticism e-list, which now seems to have pretty much replaced the defunct TC-List, Wieland Willker draws attention to this ...

Journal of the Evangelical Theology Society on-line

On Biblical Theology , Jim West notes this useful development: Journal of the Evangelical Theology Society On-line So far, volumes from 1996...

Jerusalem Post latest on Ossuary

Stephen Carlson mentions this in Hypotyposeis and thanks also to Stephen Goranson for sending over the link. In this online edition, the i...

The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha

Several other bibliobloggers have already mentioned this, but some links are too important not to underline oneself. This looks like a very...

Evangelicals debate Steve Chalke on Jesus

Ekklesia has had a couple of pieces on a new book by Steve Chalke on the doctrine of the atonement, questioning how central penal substituti...

Review of Eerdman's Commentary on the Bible

Robin Griffith-Jones has an appreciative review of the Eerdman's Commentary on the Bible in this week's Church Times : EERDMANS COM...

BBC Religion under scrutiny

Today's Guardian features news of a review of BBC's religious output: BBC's religious and EU coverage under scrutiny Matt Wells...

Scripturalization in Mark's Crucifixion Narrative

Things have been quiet for a couple of days on the blog because I've had the usual enormous backlog of administration, and especially an...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Bockmuehl, Markus Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah a...

Sample Articles and Sample Journal Copies from Blackwell

Blackwell Publishers have sent around a circular announcing the availability of sample articles and sample copies of its religion journals a...

Loren Rosson Reviews Passion book

Loren Rosson has a helpful review of Robert Webb and Kathleen Corley (eds.), Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ on Amazon...

Blogger problems today

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila reports on problems he has had all day with Blogger. Me too. I go to publish and it blanks on me. I try agai...

Visual Bible International Update

Regular readers may know that I keep an eye on news about Visual Bible International, the producers of the word-for-word films of Biblical b...

Early Christianity Glossary

N. S. Gill's Ancient / Classical History announces: Early Christianity Glossary It's clearly still in development, but could be ano...

Ernest Best

I join with fellow bloggers in mourning the death of Ernest Best, announced on Paleojudaica today. I met Paddy Best just once, at the Brit...

Beatification of Anne Catherine Emmerich

A footnote to my Rome Travel Diary. One correspondent noted that it really was going a bit far in my appreciation of The Passion of the Chr...

Christian Origins goes blog

It's good news to see Peter Kirby's Christian Origins getting blogified: Christian Origins Kirby has for some time been the author ...

Rome Travel Diary, Day 3

I got a lie in this time, until 7 a.m., because the others had some filming to do I don't remember where. They picked me up at 8 and we...

Rome Travel Diary, Day 2

Up at 6 a.m. Nice to see Robert Beckford, my colleague from Birmingham, who is presenting Who Wrote the Bible . We took a taxi to St Peter...

Rome Travel Diary, Day 1

Friday, 23.05 BST: In my hotel room in Rome; there is no internet connection available, either wireless or otherwise, but since I have my ...