Psychology and Biblical Studies

Further to the previous blog entry, the prize for the most funky program unit page has to go to this one: Psychology and Biblical Studies It...

SBL Program Unit Pages

One element that is easy to miss on the SBL Site is the following link: Program Unit Pages This is still very much an evolving part of the ...

Goulder on Minor Agreements

Stephen Carlson has an excellent discussion of Goulder's recent article in NovT in his Hypotyposeis blog. I have a couple of minor co...

Peter Gabriel does music for Passion

One other thing new to the Passion FAQ is that Peter Gabriel has done the music for The Passion of the Christ . There are some samples ava...

More on lightning

After my musings on the lightning story (see previous blog entry), I've taken a look to see if any sources are named. This story names ...

Passion latest -- changes name again and whom did lightning strike?

A circular email has just gone round from The Passion fan website and there are some new FAQs there. It seems that the film has changed it...

Gospel of John "factual"

I received an update from the Gospel of John film marketing people today featuring this comment, "Biblical scholars and theologians ag...

OUP USA

David Mackinder points out, in relation to my blog entry on OUP Reading Room , that OUP's American site also has lots of sample chapters...

SBL Synoptics Session

I've just uploaded the third of the papers for this year's SBL Synoptics Section (first one) on Saturday p.m.: Mark Matson, "In...

Henry Ian Cusick article

There's an article on Henry Ian Cusick, who plays Jesus in the Gospel of John in today's Telegraph . It's a cracking read: At ...

Cambridge book samples

After having mentioned both Hendrickson's and Oxford's sample chapters on-line, today it's the turn of Cambridge University Pres...

New URL for Studia Philonica

Thanks to Torrey Seland for this updated URL: Philo of Alexandria: The Studia Philonica Annual Studies in Hellenistic Judaism I've also...

Correct URL for OUP Reading Room

I accidentally pasted in the wrong URL for this yesterday. Thanks to David Mackinder for pointing it out. I've adjusted it in that ent...

Foster's NovT article

In an article just published in Novum Testamentum , Paul Foster discusses the existence of Q with special reference to my work. (Paul Foste...

OUP Reading Room

The other day I referred to Hendrickson's sample chapters available on-line. Thanks to Holger Szesnat for pointing out something simil...

JTS Online

I mentioned the latest JTS yesterday but could not work out why I couldn't access any of the files. Having read Jim Davila's blog...

Who Was Mary Magdalene?

There are some interesting articles on the Beliefnet pages about Mary Magdalene: Who was Mary Magdalene? These pages were set up to correspo...

Toddler Jesus Topples Egyptian Idols

BeliefNet have an excerpt from a book by Paul Perry called Jesus in Egypt: Discovering the Secrets of Christ’s Childhood Years , the excerp...

Amitai Etzioni Notes on The Passion

Thanks to David Mackinder for this -- some notes on The Passion from Amitai Etzioni's blog: More Press for the Passion of Christ .

Journal of Theological Studies latest

The October issue of the Journal of Theological Studies is now available. I won't repeat the list of contents here because there are -...

International SBL Call for Papers

Call for papers for the International SBL has gone out today: 2004 International Meeting, Groningen, The Netherlands

Review of Biblical Literature

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature : Bock, Darrell L. Jesus according to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels R...

Kirby's Christian Origins

I will not conceal my delight that Peter Kirby has reconsidered his web site title "Did Jesus Exist?" (at didjesustexist.com), the...

Lummis and Farrer

Stephen Carlson adds some useful comments following on from my entry about E. W. Lummis . Looks like I can find a way of justifying still ...

Jane Schaberg on Mary Magdalene

Having looked at amazon, I see that Jane Schaberg, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament (Lon...

Real Mary Magdalene

Useful article on Mary Magdalene here in the Washington Times : The Real Mary Magdalene?, Jen Waters Includes some comments from Liz Curtis...

Peter and Paul PBS site

Here's one I had missed until now. It's the PBS site for a television programme of the same name, presumably broadcast in the USA t...

Lummis Theory

Jeff Peterson comments on my Naming Synoptic Theories , "I wonder if it's not a bit unjust to Edwin Lummis to say that Farrer was ...

Explorer 6.28

David Meadows has posted the latest issue of Explorer: Explorer 6.28

Latest NovT

Novum Testamentum 45 / 4 (October 2003) is out; these are the contents. Links are to the Ingenta Select pages which will give you access ...

Hendricksons Sample Chapters

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for pointing out to me that the Hendrickson's web site features dozens of sample chapters from their books. So...

Mary Ann Tolbert on the crisis of creativity in Biblical Studies

One of the new articles on the SBL Forum (see previous blog entry) is an article by Mary Ann Tolbert in which she laments the current state...

New content on SBL Forum

The SBL Forum has been updated today with fresh material, including a "See you in Atlanta!" tag, a short report on the Internation...

Early Jewish Writings, Kirby

Peter Kirby, creator of fine websites including Early Christian Writings and Gospel of Thomas Commentary now has another major web site: E...

Naming Synoptic Theories

Stephen Carlson comments with insight on the vexed question of the naming of Synoptic theories, following on from my own comments on Kirk...

NT Society of South Africa Conference 2004

Bobby Louser has sent over this -- it's a call for papers for the New Testament Society of South Africa's Conference 2004: Final Cal...

James Ossuary again

Even if you're fatigued with the James Ossuary business, there are a couple of things well worth reading here. First, Bible and Interp...

Bauckham Oxford University Sermon

The University Church in Oxford (just across the way from my old college, Exeter -- ah -- happy memories) has its own web site including tex...

Biblical Studies Bulletin

Quite by chance, while looking for something else, I ran across a useful resource: Biblical Studies Bulletin It's a kind of quarterly ...

Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?

Thanks to Jim West for drawing attention to an interesting and well-written article about The Passion of Christ , situating it in Gibson...

Crosswalk and All-in-One adjustment

I've been doing some writing today for a publisher who asked for all Biblical quotations to be from the NRSV (New Revised Standard Versi...

Distance Learning Course at Leiden

This just on tc-list: The Faculty of Theology of Leiden University is pleased to announce the Distance Learning Course TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND...

Kirk on the Goulder volume

One of the new RBL reviews (see below) is Alan Kirk's of The Gospels According to Michael Goulder . He comments at the end of his revie...

New Review of Biblical Literature reviews

New NT related reviews on the Review of Biblical Literature : Anderson, Janice Capel, Phillip Sellew and Claudia Setzer, eds. Pauline Conver...

Gospels as propaganda

I've often talked about the Gospels as pieces of "propaganda" about Jesus, especially when introducing them in teaching or in ...

Googlistas

A brief interlude of general internet interest. I'd never heard the term "Googlistas" until Saturday's Guardian which ha...

Galilee Font & Unicode adjustments

Thanks to Rod Decker for reminding me to update some details on my Fonts page. His very useful PDF paper on Unicode has been reworked and ...

OUP sale

Oxford University Press have announced an autumn sale, everything half price or less. Includes one of my colleague Sugi's books (Prof. ...

Philosopher, Theologian and a Lawyer

Tonight's Quote . . . . Unquote on Radio 4 began with a nice quotation I'd not heard before: "A philosopher is a blind man in ...

Alleged Sources for the Passion of Christ

Also on Paleojudaica today is a link to the Baraita blog by Naomi Chana: On Divine Histories It's an informative addition to the discus...

More on Jesus and Mary Magdalene

The programme to air in the US tonight on the sensationalist idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene etc. has generated a fair bit of ...

Jewish Actress Proud to Be Mel Gibson’s Virgin Mary

This article on NewsMax provides another perspective on The Passion of Christ -- it's an interview with Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian ...

Mis-hearing Monty Python

AKMA points out to me that I'd written arms for an ex-leper rather than "alms for an ex-leper" last night. Perhaps it was a ...

Experts comment on Da Vinci Code

With a TV programme to air in the U.S. on Monday evening on the topic, the Da Vinci Code is discussed in this balanced article by Gary Ster...

Explorator 6.27

Latest Explorator now available: Explorator 6.27

Galilee Unicode Font

Just announced on b-greek, Rod Decker has posted a beta of the unicode version of his Galilee font. You will find it here: Galilee Unicode ...

Backlash against Gospel of John

On the whole The Gospel of John has steered clear of the controversy that has dogged The Passion of Christ but here is an article asking ...

The Passion of Christ: Two Films in One

Dennis Prager has seen a rough cut of The Passion of Christ and has written a useful article on it: 'The Passion of Christ': Two F...

Michael Palin

It enjoyed watching Michael Palin on tonight's Parkinson ; it included a clip from Life of Brian (arms for an ex-leper) and an anecdot...

Ray Frank Robbins

BP News has a tribute to Ray Frank Robbins, former professor of New Testament and Greek at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, who di...

The Long View -- Hadrian's Wall

I mentioned the fascinating Vindolanda Tablets recently. They were discussed along with Hadrian's Wall in general on The Long View thi...

Jim West's new blog

Jim West has started a new Biblical Studies Blog which replaces his previous Petros Baptist Church blog.

Online or Invisible

Stephen Carlson ( Hypotyposeis blog entry ) draws attention to a very interesting article: Steve Lawrence, "Online or Invisible" T...

Articles on women in the NT by Kenneth Bailey

Thanks to Richard Anderson on Synoptic-L for drawing attention to two articles by Kenneth Bailey, linked by the theme of women in the NT, in...

US TV set for "Jesus' wife" storm

Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this from BBC News Online: US TV set for "Jesus' wife" storm A leading US TV news reporter has ...

Jews and Christians Reading the Bible: A Forum

Robert Kraft on Ioudaios mentions the following: Jews and Christians Reading the Bible: A Forum It's at Bryn Mawr college next week, 6-7...

Dante's Inferno Test

Jim Davila takes Dante's Inferno Test and makes it to the second level of hell. Well, it looks like I've made it to purgatory! Yo...

Lawrence Wills's Ancient Jewish Novels

An issue of Forward out this week has a chatty review of Lawrence M. Wills (ed. and translator), Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology (Oxfo...

Margaret Mitchell's SBL Synoptics Section paper

As I've mentioned before ( see here ), we have a session planned for the Synoptics Section at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual ...

Latest JSNT

The latest Journal for the Study of the New Testament has appeared -- Volume 26, Number 1 (September 2003). The message below is the alert...

PhD-positions at the University of Groningen

This posted on behalf of Dr George van Kooten of the University of Groningen: Three PhD-positions at the University of Groningen Jewish and ...

Review of Ehrman

An article in the Boston Globe by Scott Bernard Nelson speaks enthusiastically of Bart Ehrman's twin publications Lost Christianities: ...

!Hero worship

An enthusiastic article about the !Hero Rock Opera in the St Petersburg Times On-line : 'Hero' Worship In !Hero, The Rock Opera, th...

New Horsley book

Richard Horsley has a new book out. How does he manage to write so much? Here's the press release (with the usual rider that other pub...

Next blog on Wednesday

I'm away from computers for the next few days; look out for the next blog entry on Wednesday.

Peter Lampe, From Paul to Valentinus

Another Fortress Press release (where are the other publishers?): ““This study is so masterful in its grasp of a vast array of evidence, so ...

Secret Mark

The latest entry on Hypotyposeis relates to Secret Mark, some reflections on Bart Erhman's recent Lost Christianities: The Battles for ...

Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive

Thanks to Richard Wright for drawing my attention to the massive database of woodcuts at Pitts Theology Library (Candler School of Theology,...

Free software for learning Greek

At the Greek Study Day here on Wednesday, there was some discussion of memorisation. One thing that got mentioned was the number of useful...

More on SBL Ossuary session

There's a bit more detail on the SBL session on the Ossuary in the editorial of the current Bible Archaeology Review : First Person: Gea...

Research Assistant job at University of Gloucestershire

There is a job being advertised at the University of Gloucestershire, a Research Assistant in New Testament studies, to work with Prof. Andr...

James Ossuary Update: Lemaire fights back

André Lemaire provides a detailed answer to the IAA report on the James Ossuary, which declared the ossuary a forgery: Ossuary Update: Israe...

Philip Esler on Romans

Just announced by Fortress: Philip Esler Provides Fresh Analysis of Paul’s Most Important Letter MINNEAPOLIS (October 23, 2003)— What is the...