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...

Hollywood Jesus News

Lots more information of interest on both The Passion of Christ and The Gospel of John , including a review of the latter, in Hollywood Jes...

Passion to open on Ash Wednesday

The U.S. release date for The Passion of Christ is now set for Ash Wednesday; it will be distributed in the U.S.A. by Icon and Newmarket, t...

Goodspeed's birthday

1871 - Birth of Edgar J. Goodspeed, American Greek New Testament scholar. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1898 to 1937. In 1931,...

AKMA on Wright

AKMA blogs on that Wright letter to the Guardian which I blogged yesterday : Don't Do It! AKMA is irritated by Wright's casual use ...

New Blog -- Stephen Carlson

A new weblog of interest to scholars and students of the NT has recently appeared: Hypotyposeis: Sketches in Biblical Studies The blogger is...

Exchange between E. P. Sanders, Crossan & Reed

Thanks to David Mackinder for drawing this to my attention. There's a fascinating exchange between E. P. Sanders and John Dominic Cross...

Wright answers Armstrong

On Sunday I blogged about Karen Armstrong on Heaven and Hell and wrote "my guess is we'll see a letter from Tom Wright in The Guar...

Jesus' bathhouse

Sensational article in today's Guardian : Is this where Jesus bathed? "A shopkeeper running a small souvenir business in Nazareth h...

Luke Johnson on the Creed again

Christianity Today has an interview with Luke Johnson on his new book on the creed: Editor's Bookshelf: 'We live what we believe...

Greek Study Day

Today I've attended the Greek Study Day sponsored by the LTSN: Classics Centre. You can see the programme here . This was the third of...

TV tonight

Since RogueClassicism has American TV covered, I hope international readers will excuse me mentioning UK programmes. Tonight, Five has Rev...

Guardian Review of Pompeii programme

David Meadows points out a Guardian review of Pompeii: The Last Day (see my previous blog entry on): Nancy Banks-Smith, "Go With th...

Andreas J. Köstenberger

Another addition to the Scholars pages, this time to Scholars: I, J, K : Andreas J. Köstenberger Köstenberger is based at the Southeastern B...

Markus Bockmuehl

A new addition to the Scholars: B page: Markus Bockmuehl's Teaching Resources Described as follows: "This unofficial website serve...

Brill Backlist

Brill have announced a major sale on some of their backlist -- up to 70% off. This is to celebrate 320 years since they were founded, and t...

Favourite Jesus Film

Jim Davila points out an article from the Tennessean : What's your favorite 'Jesus' movie? One correspondent in the article say...

Miri Rubin on Mary

Miri Rubin guested on Start the Week today on Radio 4, talking about Mary (mother of Jesus) ahead of a lecture she is giving on Thursday 30...

Pompeii: The Last Day

Interesting TV programme tonight, 9 p.m., on BBC1: Pompeii: The Last Day That link takes you to the BBC's web site on the programme. I ...

Explorator 6.25

Latest Explorator out today: Explorator 6.25, October 19 2003

Luke Johnson on the Creeds

This from NaplesNews.com is on Luke Timothy Johnson's new book on the creeds: A Catholic scholar makes a modern case for Christianity...

Tom Wright does Face to Faith

Bishop Tom is not only talked about but talking in yesterday's Guardian , penning this week's "Face to Faith": That Specia...

Karen Armstrong on Heaven and Hell

This by Karen Armstrong in yesterday's Guardian : This is Our Heaven -- or Hell The opening line: "The Bishop of Durham has recentl...

Dallas Exhibition

A good on-line exhibition with some high quality photographs, with thanks to Stephen Goranson for drawing it to my attention and also Gary D...

Formation of the Canon page

For a long time there has been a short section on the NT Gateway on the formation of the canon. Holger Szesnat commented that it was rather...

Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times down to 476 A.D.

N. S. Gill's Ancient / Classical History draws attention to a complete on-line book on that site Robert F. Pennell, Ancient Rome from t...

Image of P39

Harold Scanlin on the TC-List draws attention to a fine high res image of P 39 in the ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative . It s...

Is The Passion more violent than Kill Bill?

Christianity Today rounds up some comments on concerns about gratuitous violence in The Passion of Christ : Film Forum: Is The Passion More...

Greek NT Grammatical Search

Back to NT matters, Jim Darden has added a couple of improvements to: Greek New Testament Grammatical Search ( See yesterday's blog entr...

In Our Time

A bit removed from the NT, I know, but there was an interesting In Our Time yesterday on: The Schism - the thousand year fault line between...

Archbishop speaks

Those outside the UK, or those within it who don't listen to Today , might have missed the Archbishop of Canterbury's first intervie...

Passion Renamed

Jim Davila refers to this article from NBC 17 giving a little more on the name change: Gibson Renames Movie About Christ The article says t...

Tyndale Tech Email

I referred the other day to the latest Tyndale Tech email. David Instone Brewer has now uploaded it to the web: Tyndale Tech, October 2003...

P39 in the news

Peter Head on TC-List draws attention to the following article: Art expert sued over Gospel deal Apparently it's about P 39 . Peter als...

Biblical Greek Words and New Testament Greek Grammar

This link just posted on b-greek: Biblical Greek Words and New Testament Greek Grammar The author, Jim Darden, says that it's "just...

Head to head: Gay Church Debate

From BBC News, this feature puts two opposing views on the question of gay bishops "head to head", Dr Philip Giddings first and Re...

The Passion of Christ

I've adjusted my links so that they are now The Passion of Christ rather than The Passion . I've also added a link to the Hollywoo...

Conference on Rhetorical Criticism and Scriptures

The 8th International Conference on Rhetorical Criticism and Scriptures (South Africa, 2004) entitled THE RHETORICS OF BODY, POLITICS, AND S...

Textual Criticism: Journal and E-List page

Just noticed that my Textual Criticism: Journal and E-List page was out of date so have refreshed all the links. When I adjusted the main ...

Christopher Skinner on Mark 3.14

Wieland Willker on the TC-List draws attention to the following article: Christopher W. Skinner, '“Whom He Also Named Apostles”: A Text...

Dale Martin's page

I've just added Dale Martin's faculty page at Yale University under Scholars: M .

Jesus in the Talmud

From Paleojudaica.com , a note about an article from Index-Online on Jesus in the Talmud ; Jim includes a link to Google's cache of th...

The Passion of Christ

Jim West notes updates on The Passion from the Passion-Movie web site . Apparently the aim is to get the film out in the USA on 25 Februa...

Richard Bauckham's SBL Paper

Richard Bauckham has made available the following paper ahead of the SBL Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia coming up in November: Richard B...

Jeffrey Gibson's SBL paper

Jeffrey Gibson is reading a paper to the Mark group at the forthcoming SBL Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. He has uploaded the paper to...

More on Brown

Some more details on the Brown / Moloney book are available on the Doubleday web site: An Introduction to the Gospel of John

Raymond Brown on John

From Bible and Interpretation , a link to an article in something called the Desert Sun announces posthumous publication of material from R...

More on Baldwin

Stephen Carlson points me to Matthew Baldwin's current homepage ( see previous blog entry on ) Homepage of Dr Matthew Charles Baldwin wh...

Explorator 6.24

Since I wasn't around to blog over the weekend I didn't do my usual link to the latest Explorator from David Meadows. It comes out ...

Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death

David Meadows blogs about a BBC programme on tonight entitled Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death . Looks like good viewing to accompany ...

Torrey Seland's Resource Pages

Over the weekend, Torrey Seland has updated his pioneering web site: Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (October-November 2003 edition) The...

New NT Gateway frontpage

Many thanks to Steve Walton, Holger Szesnat, Stephen Carlson, Helen-Ann Hartley and Jim Davila for their feedback on the experimental new f...

Laurel and Hardy and Jesus

I was at a most enjoyable Laurel and Hardy day yesterday here in Birmingham at the MAC. I noticed on repeated films that the cinematographe...

On entire PhDs as PDFs

Peter Head comments on my blog entry on Matthew Baldwin's thesis "I say: If you are going to do it a single pdf file is not the be...

Matthew Baldwin, Whose Acts of Peter?

Thanks to Stephen Carlson for pointing this out to me: Matthew C. Baldwin, Whose Acts of Peter? Text and Historical Context of the Actus Ver...

Further adjustments

I've made some further adjustments to the new main page: New Testament Gateway New Main Page: Trial Run I've tried to unclutter the...

New main page for NT Gateway

I'm trying out a new look for the front page of the NT Gateway. It's uploaded already but I've not yet made it the main page. ...

Guestbook

I'd wondered why no-one ever seemed to sign my guestbook any more and I've just realised, in my revamping of the front page of the N...

Letter to Mel Gibson

Alan Sereboff writes an open letter to Mel Gibson in NewsMax.com. It's quite a powerful read; he's a Jewish screenwriter; he's...

Unicode Greek New Testament & Septuagint

Earlier today I mentioned James Naughton's excellent Unicode Greek Inputter . Let me now mention a couple of other resources he has put...

Passion Sparks internal Jewish debate

Reported in Bible and Interpretation , an interesting article from the JTA News ("Global News Service of the Jewish People"): Gib...

Journals Page

I've updated the NT Gateway Journals page with the new URLs for the Journal of Biblical Literature . If the free on-line back issues r...

Unicode Greek Inputter

Very useful resource for those, like me, who are just coming to terms with unicode for typing Greek: Unicode Greek Inputter It's devised...

Vindolanda Tablets On-line

Pete Philips on the Johannine Literature e-list mentions this fine web site: Vindolanda Tablets On-line Fascinating information, beautifull...

AHRB Greek Bible Project

One link from the latest Tyndale Tech (see previous blog entry) is: AHRB Greek Bible Project From their site: This project, directed by Dr T...

Tyndale Tech

The latest Tyndale Tech newsletter has just appeared from David Instone-Brewer. The theme for this one is Lexicons for Biblical Languages. ...

!Hero Rock Opera

My copy of !Hero finally arrived yesterday. Haven't listened to it all yet, but it's pretty enjoyable so far, but with some qualms...

Theology WebSite on Irenaeus

The Theology Website's Electronic Text Index has recently added some new texts including Irenaeus's Against Heresies . Somewhat an...

BloggerCon

I'm a bit late latching on to this. I read AKMA's blog and had seen that he was enjoying being in the Boston area but hadn't r...

Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity

This press release just out from Fortress [Let me add that the reason I mention Fortress books here is that they are good enough to send me ...

Changes in the NT Gateway

In spare moments I'm working on changing the main page of the NT Gateway. Now that I'm blogging regularly, I don't need to use ...

Academics and blogging

From Paleojudaica an enjoyable couple of links to Why are there so many of the leading bloggers academics? and How do you get an academic...