Article on the Passion

And still they keep coming. This well-written piece by Thomas Doherty appears today in Australian newspaper The Age , apparently originally...

Homosexuality and the Bible from Fortress

This press release on a timely book is just out from Fortress Press: Scholars Debate Homosexuality and the Bible in New Book from Fortress P...

Corpus Paul info.

A correspondent points out that the Corpus Paulinum information page has out of date information on how to subscribe to the list. The corr...

Enthusiasm for Gospel of John

Still the Visual Bible Gospel of John gets good publicity, though often of the "Before there was Mel, there was Garth" variety yo...

Crucifixion through the wrists

Jim Davila mentions several other films which get crucifixion right. While preparing materials for a Jesus and the Gospels course which I ...

Torrey Seland adds discussion board

I know I'm not the only one who pays regular visits to Torrey Seland's pioneering Biblical Resources site. A recent addition (last ...

Beginning of term blues

After days of happy blogging, the beginning of term (technically yesterday but I'm still up so it doesn't feel like yesterday) absor...

The Passion again

Jim Davila reports on another article on The Passion , this one in Toledoblade.com. Apparently there is now a petition web site, seethepas...

Christ in the Crossfire

Don't you love those newspaper headlines? An excellent article summing up everything that's been happenning on The Passion news st...

Explorator 6.22

It's Sunday afternoon, so the latest Explorator has just arrived: Explorator 6.22, September 28 2003

SBL site completely revamped

Jim Davila draws attention to the completely revamped SBL site: Society of Biblical Literature The new site design is leaps and bounds bett...

Still more on the Passion

There are still daily stories all over the American media (still very little here in the UK) about The Passion . There's a report from ...

More from Christianity Today's Biblical Archaeology Week

More from Christianity Today 's "Biblical Archaeology week" Christian M.M. Brady, What Do the Stones Cry Out? With the subtitl...

Half price Synoptic Problem

I am happy to find a copy of my book The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze half price -- at the SPCK Online Bookshop , £7.50. I th...

R. E. O. White Obituary

In today's Herald an obituary of R. E. O. White who died aged 89 on September 4. Rev R. E. O. White, Obituary White was author of seve...

Crossan and Reed's Top Ten

Jim Davila also links to his blog entry August 2 2003 , which links to a Washington Post article updating Crossan & Reed's Top Ten ...

Jerusalem Shroud

Jim Davila also comments on the Ben Witherington III article and has some links to details on the shroud Shimon Gibson unearthed in 2000. ...

Shroud DNA

In relation to yesterday's blog about the prolific Ben Witherington III , Wieland Willker has pointed me to an FAQ on the Turin Shroud w...

Darrell Bock on the Passion

A New Testament scholar who has seen The Passion expresses his opinion on Beliefnet: 'You Can't Whitewash the Events of the Bible...

The Prolific Ben Witherington III

Christianity Today has now posted a second article by Ben Witherington III: Top Ten New Testament Archaeological Finds of the Past 150 Year...

OT in NT Conference, April 2004

I've just added a Notice on the Annual Conference on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, organised by Steve Moyise. See ...

Biblica Fascicle 84/3 (2003)

Just announced, the latest Biblica on-line: Biblica Fascicle 84/3 (2003) (scroll down). Includes: Jean-Noël ALETTI, "Romains 4 et Gen...

Witherington on the James Ossuary

Jim Davila reports on an article in Christianity Today -- Ben Witherington III's defends its authenticity: Bones of Contention I wonde...

Greek Helps is back

No sooner had I announced its demise than Michael Luper's Greek Helps returns with a new URL (click link or go to Learning New Testamen...

Parables that didn't make the grade

If you fancy a good laugh, have a look at a new thread on a bulletin board at the Ship of Fools web site: Parables that didn't make the...

Learning New Testament Greek page

With a new term approaching, I've been checking my Learning New Testament Greek page and am sorry to see that several good sites have g...

Holy Land Photos latest

If you haven't visited Holy Land Photos before, let me recommend it -- packed full of hundreds of quality photographs of the Holy Land....

Gerd Lüdemann, The Life of Jesus

Bible and Interpretation have just published an essay by Gerd Lüdemann in which he summarises the concluding section of his book Jesus Afte...

Beyond Belief today

Today's Beyond Belief on Radio 4 is apparently about "Religion and Cyberspace" so I'll be listening. Don't know who ...

Price of International Shipping on !Hero

I finally got round to ordering my copy of the CD of the new Jesus rock opera !Hero yesterday (see blog entry on !Hero ) and had one of tho...

Galilee Font

Rodney Decker has developed further his "Galilee" Greek font (new release version 1.02). It includes bold and italic faces for th...

This day in ancient history

One of the features of the RogueClassicism blog that I enjoy is "This day in ancient history". I've no plans to do the same ...

Latest on the Passion

It seems to be getting nastier all the time; here is one of the latest offerings: Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Told Jim Davila comme...

Vernon Robbins article on-line and Kirby's new web site

Peter Kirby announced today that he has uploaded, with permission, a version of Vernon Robbins's classic article on he "we" pa...

Latest Explorator

Latest Explorator has just arrived, so I know it must be Sunday. Web version is at: The Explorator Newsletter: 21 September 2003

Mary Coloe

It was good to meet Mary Coloe recently at the British New Testament Conference in Birmingham -- she travelled all the way from Australia ...

Brethren of the Lord

In last week's Review of Biblical Literature announcements , I was interested to read my friend Matti Myllykoski's review of Bruce ...

Biblical Archaeology's Dusty Little Secret

Interesting article in Christianity Today , just posted, by Gordon Govier and subtitled "The James bone box controversy reveals the pol...

Backlash against Akenson

A vociferous response to Akenson's outspoken article appears today from Bruce Waltke, professor emeritus of biblical studies at Regent ...

Peter Chattaway on Gospel of John and The Passion

Nice article by Peter Chattaway (author of a good article linked on the NTGateway Celluloid Jesus pages called Jesus at the Movies ): Passi...

!Hero Web Site

The web site for the new Rock Opera is at: !Hero On-line It includes audio samples, news, the chance to buy the music etc. and you can get a...

New Rock Opera on Jesus

Well, it's all happening at the moment. I can remember a time when people were bemoaning the end of the attempts to produce Jesus films...

Crosswalk review of Gospel of John

Jeffery Hodges on the Johannine-Literature list points out a review on the Crosswalk site: "The Gospel of John" - Movie Review, H...

Johnny Cash's Spoken Word New Testament

I've been looking for an excuse to mention the sad news of the passing of Johnny Cash on September 12 and now I have one. (I've be...

Vatican cardinal praises 'Passion'

Courtesy of Jim West, a reference to a CNN article on a Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos's praise for the film: Vatican Cardinal Praises ...

A Bible that looks like a magazine

Loads more about Revolve on its publisher's website: Revolve, NCV: The Complete New Testament Includes a thee and a half minute adverti...

"Teen Girls Going Ga-ga for Jesus"

That's a quotation from God's Word Goes Glossy , an article on Fox News about Revolve , "a magazine that’s slicked up the New T...

14C Titulus Crucis Dating: Medieval

Stephen Goranson reports on the Xtalk list on the following article: Francesco Bella and Carlo Azzi, "14C Dating of the 'Titulus C...

Akenson on the new Jesus films

Donald Akenson, author of Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus has written an article on the two new Jesus films, Garth, Mel:...

Anthony J. Saldarini Memorial Page

Many of us were very sorry to hear of the death of Anthony Saldarini in September 2001. There's now a memorial page devoted to him at: ...

More actors in more than one Jesus film

It's great to know that I am not the only one to find such trivia interesting. Matthew Page sends the following, not all from "pro...

Gospel of John to show at SBL/AAR meeting in Atlanta

Thanks to Jeff Staley on the Johannine-Literature list for pointing out that The Gospel of John will be showing at the SBL/AAR Annual Meeti...

Sexy Subtitles

Jim Davila comments that the likely reason for the Secret Gospel of Thomas subtitle for Elaine Pagels' book is marketing: "It...

Latest Review of Biblical Literature reviews

Review of Biblical Literature latest reviews: Bryan, Steven M. Jesus and Israel's Traditions of Judgement and Restoration Chilton, Bruc...

Here's a few more

Another I've thought of: Ian Holm is Pontius Pilate (voice of) in The Miracle Maker and was Zerah (a vocal member of the Sanhedrin) in...

More actors who crop up in more than one Jesus film

Thanks to Helen-Ann Hartley of Worcester College, Oxford for the following: "Not sure these count, but Howard Gaye was Jesus in two fil...

Actors who crop up in more than one Jesus film

Interesting to see that Christopher Plummer is the narrator in The Gospel of John . Q.: Which other Jesus film has he cropped up in? A.: J...

Gibson vs. Drabinsky

The release of The Visual Bible: Gospel of John has clearly introduced a new element into the negative reporting about Gibson's The Pas...

Rev. Prof. Norman Porteous dies age 104

Old Testament scholar Norman Porteous died on September 3 aged 104. The Times published an obituary earlier today: The Rev Professor Norman...

Search added

I've added a search facility on the left. It's the same Pico search engine that indexes the whole of the NT Gateway (basically it j...

Like a red rag to a bigot

Curious Observer article yesterday on the problems of "mixing religion and art", combining discussion of the Mel Gibson film with...

MovieGuide.org review of Gospel of John

From the Johannine Lit. e-list (post by Arne Halbakken), a MovieGuide.org review of The Gospel of John : Visual Bible: The Gospel of John : ...

AKMA's blog

And he has a blog too, called AKMA's Random Thoughts , pretty regularly updated and looks lively. From what I've read through so fa...

A. K. M. Adam's Webpage and a disseminary

A. K. M. Adam's webpage just added to the Scholars: A page. Some interesting information there, e.g. an article entitled "The Di...

Other Jesus Film Gets Less Play

There's an associated press story by Richard Ostling just out and doing the rounds. It has some interesting comments on the Visual Bibl...

Explorator 6.20

Latest Explorator has just been sent out. See: Explorator 6.20

The Gospel of John film

I've now also added a new page on The Gospel of John : Celluloid Jesus: The Gospel of John This is the new Visual Bible word-for-word ve...

New Yorker Article on The Passion

The New Yorker has published a 14-page article on Gibson's The Passion entitled "The Jesus War"; it is by Peter J. Boyer an...

The Passion, Mel Gibson

I've created a new page in the Celluloid Jesus bit of the NT Gateway for the new Mel Gibson directed film The Passion : Celluloid Jesus:...

Jesus of Montreal DVD

Jesus of Montreal (dir. Denys Arcand, 1989) has recently been released on DVD. Thanks to James Knox for sending me the press release: Jesus...

Old Testament and Ancient Near East

Although this is a New Testament web log, there's an Old Testament site worth mentioning, not least because I often get asked the questi...

David Instone-Brewer

While surfing round the Tyndale House web site, I realised that I hadn't added David Instone-Brewer 's homepage to my Scholars pag...

Peter Head's page fixed

I mentioned recently Peter Head's homepage. The problem on it has now been fixed and it reads nicely again: Peter Head's Homepage

The Brick Testament

While in the mood, if you haven't seen this before, it's a treat: The Brick Testament First saw reference to this -- I think -- in m...

Bible Jokes and Study

Since it's the weekend, here's a link I've recently been sent. It won't make its way onto the NT Gateway proper, but you mi...

Brian K. Peterson

An addition to the Scholars pages, Brian K. Peterson . While updating that page, I see that Mark Allan Powell's page has gone missing. ...

Jim West's Biblical Studies Resources

Jim's URL has changed to http://www.biblical-studies.org -- a bit easier to remember! I've adjusted the link on my Biblical Resour...

More Biblical Theology Bulletin Journals

Here's the next batch, also courtesy of Gail Dawson's searches. If anyone has the time to do further searches, or comes across othe...

Biblical Theology Bulletin Articles

Here is the first batch of individual articles of interest from the on-line Biblical Theology Bulletin. The difficulty with FindArticles is...

Biblical Theology Bulletin

I'm grateful to Gail Dawson for drawing my attention to the presence on FindArticles.com of full-text articles from Biblical Theology B...

Kohlenberger on Gender Accurate TNIV

Here's another one of interest from the (new to me) Priscilla Papers: John Kohlenberger III, "What About the “Gender Accurate” TNIV...

Fee Article

Recently published article by Gordon Fee: The Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18–6:9 (PDF) Its subtitle is "Is there a divinely ordain...

Form for Comparing Ancient Texts

Here's a great web site I ran across recently: Form for Comparing Ancient Texts It's designed by Kenneth Banner , a doctoral student...

Updated E-Lists

I began a revision of the NTGateway: E-Lists page in July and I've only now got round to completing it. I've updated URLs where n...

Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities

I've just received an announcement of Bart Ehrman's new book. The publisher's publicity is reproduced below: LOST CHRISTIANITIE...

Jesus Film Reviews

I've just added a link on my Celluloid Jesus pages to Jesus Films - Reviews , a link that was there but I took down when the site disap...

PhD Weblogs

There's a new(ish) site listing PhD students' weblogs from around the world. It's at PhDweblogs.net ; 80+ so far listed; nothi...

Disappearing Links

One of the depressing things about running the NT Gateway is the number of links I have to remove, and on a regular basis. I've just re...

Rogue Classicism Blog

I'll also add links to one or two related blogs on the left. Paleojudaica.com you've heard me enthusing about already -- it's ...

Bible and Interpretation

I've added a link to the Bible and Interpretation web page on the left (under External Links). There's always masses of interesting...

Perrin and Shedinger

There have been one or two other reviews of Perrin's Thomas and Tatian on-line, Robert Shedinger in the Review of Biblical Literature ...

Two new TC reviews

Two new reviews by David Parker in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism: Reuben Swanson's Romans and Nicholas Perrin's Thomas...

What's your vision for the blog?

Bob Shacht writes to me at blog@NTGateway.com to ask: I'm not much of a blogger myself, but I see that you first outlined clearly how *...