On the way home

I am sitting in Austin airport awaiting a delayed flight. I hope I make my connection in Newark. It's been a great meeting, but now I...

Still in San Antonio

Haven't had a moment to blog since yesterday morning; greatly relieved to have delivered my paper yesterday. I want to sound off about...

SBL Sunday

It is Sunday morning now at the SBL Annual Meeting. We had our first ever University of Birmingham reception at breakfast this morning. It...

SBL Saturday, rest of

To complete my account of Saturday, Catherine Smith and Matthew Brook O'Donnell gave an excellent paper exploring the possibilities for ...

SBL Saturday

Saturday, 16.13: Computer Assisted Research Group. I am disappointed to discover that there is no wireless internet access here, or at lea...

San Antonio

I arrived in San Antonio yesterday evening, too late, unfortunately, for a meeting I was supposed to attend. But I did get a chance to go o...

Javanilla in Austin, Texas

First stage of my journey and first entry in my travel diary. I am tasting something called a javanilla shake in Seattle's Best Coffee...

Off to Texas

In a few hours I am setting off for this year's SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio. I'm making a stop in Austin en route. I am taki...

More Tom Wright

There's still more new Tom Wright on the N. T. Wright page . There's a link to an interview by Stephen Crittenden in The Religion R...

SBL Blogger watch

In Paleojudaica , Jim Davila also notes that he is on his way to San Antonio. You can read his paper, Astrology and the Descenders to the ...

Visual Bible International Latest

A regular feature here is the Jesus film watch. For a while it looked like the next proposed venture of Visual Bible International, who pro...

Stephen Carlson's SBL Paper

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson announces the on-line availability of his paper for the Textual Criticism section at the SBL: The Origin(s...

Jeffrey Gibson's paper for Synoptic Gospels Section

One more paper for the Synoptic Gospels Section is now available in draft on-line: Jeffrey B. Gibson, 'Once Again, the "Sign of Jo...

SBL Synoptics Section Web Pages

I mentioned the other day the new web page for the SBL Synoptics Section, which I co-chair with Greg Carey: SBL Synoptic Gospels Section Th...

Ancient World Mapping Center Web Watch

I mentioned the Ancient World Mapping Center's Web Watch last week ( Web Watch ) and Tom Elliott added a comment the next day to the ef...

Professorial Post in Theology or Biblical Studies

This from Kenneth Newport: Liverpool Hope University College: Professorial Post in Theology or Biblical Studies The advertisement is longish...

Blogos's Fun with Firefox

Just after blogging about Firefox , I read an enjoyable post on Blogos: More fun with Firefox and ESV Search I keep finding new features i l...

60 Years of Tyndale House

David Instone-Brewer's latest Tyndale Tech newsletter is all about William Tyndale in celebration of sixty years of Tyndale House. The...

Firefox

I'm a recent convert to the Mozilla Firefox browser. I think I first was encouraged to do it by reading about it in Jim Davila's P...

Margaret Barker's Temple Theology

The Church Times carries a short review of the following: Margaret Barker, Temple Theology: An Introduction Review by John Barton The book ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Hearon, Holly E. The Mary Magdalene Tradition: Witness and Counter-Wi...

Wrightsaid latest

The N. T. Wright page has added a bunch of new responses by Tom Wright to "Wrightsaid" email list questions: Bishop Tom Wright an...

Andrew Lincoln, Truth on Trial

As regular readers will know, one of my favourite features is flagging up free sample chapters from books on publishers' websites, which...

Dan Wallace on 1 Thess. 3.2

On The Coding Humanist , Eric Sowell announces that he has uploaded the following to the CSNTM website: Was Timothy God’s ‘fellow-worker’? ...

Durham NT Seminar Audio Archive

I saw reference to this on the N. T. Wright page : New Testament Seminar Audio Archives So far it features MP3s of talks by William Telford,...

SBL Synoptics Section

I'm just setting up a new web page for the SBL Annual Meeting Synoptics Section. There is more to do, but at this stage it has links to...

Listwatch @ Textualcriticism

A couple of items of interest that have been awaiting a spare moment for a mention in the blog, both from Wieland Willker's Textual Crit...

SBL International 2005

Matthew Collins has today sent around a circular to all SBL members with a call for papers for the SBL International Meeting 2005, which wil...

BNTS mailing list

Since standing down as secretary of the British New Testament Society , I have transferred all of the existing mailing list (which was based...

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

I've added this to my blogroll: Alan Wood's Unicode Resouruces A very useful resource for unicode, now with its own RSS feed for up...

Web Watch

At the Stoa Consortium , Ross Scaife draws attention to this newish resource: Web Watch A quick round-up of interesting blog, list and websi...

Tom Wright's Castle

Several of the bibliobloggers have commented on this Daily Telegraph article in which Tom Wright defends his right to live in Auckland Cast...

James Ossuary page again

I referred recently to the BAS page on the James Ossuary ( More materials on the James Ossuary ). They have now organised that page much be...

E. P. Sanders's Intellectual Autobiography

I was lucky enough to run across this gem today: Comparing Judaism and Christianity: An Academic Autobiography A paper read at “New Views of...

Colloquium: Covenant to the People, Light to the Nations

This from Annette Yoshiko Reed: A Covenant to the People, A Light to the Nations: Universalism, Exceptionalism, and the Problem of Chosennes...

SBL Forum New Articles

There are some new articles on the SBL Forum : Jacques Derrida and Biblical Studies Yvonne Sherwood "Things That Matter": Historic...

New version of Cardo

The Stoa announce a new version of the free unicode font Cardo: A major update to Cardo, a Unicode font designed for scholars, is now avail...

NT Gateway updates

Haven't been able to post to the blog all day. But I've made some updates on The New Testament Gateway -- Luke-Acts and Q and Sy...

SBL Forum New Editor

I had the email notification of this sometime ago but am only steadily catching up with things. The SBL Forum, which in the several months ...

Survey on effects of Passion of the Christ

A report on a survey on audience reactions to the film The Passion of the Christ that may be of interest: Barna survey shows ‘Passion’ had ...

Bibledudes

Following on from reading reflections on the outcome of the US election in Michael Homan's Blog , I enjoyed visiting a web site to which...

Top 500 World Universities

I spotted this on the University of Birmingham website today; it may have been around for a bit -- I don't know: Top 500 World Univers...

More materials on the James Ossuary

I've been monitoring the Biblical Archaeology Society 's page on the James ossuary and note that a substantial number of new materia...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Just in case you thought the blog had fallen asleep, here's the latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and rela...

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...