Invigilation Blues

It's examinations time in the U.K. and no doubt some readers will be wondering how they are going to cope with the three-hour stint of i...

Tom Wright does Face to Faith

In today's (now yesterday's) Guardian , Tom Wright does a Face to Faith for Pentecost: The spirit of the age Tom Wright

Historical Jesus: Courses

I've updated my Historical Jesus: Courses page -- deleted Terry Paige's "Life of Christ" course because it is no longer a...

Craig Evans

Craig Evans has added a couple of items of interest to his homepage: Da Vinci and the Code Breakers Brown’s curious theories of Gospel sour...

Church Times article on The Passion

This week's Church Times also reports on the Emma award for The Passion of the Christ : Gibson’s Passion is a box-office winner by Bill...

David Aune homepage

On my Index of Scholars: A page, I've added the following new homepage: David E. Aune It has a full list of publications, some course o...

Simple Parallel Bible

On Bible Software Review Weblog , Rubén Gómez points to this excellent site: Simple Parallel Bible This is one that I can't adequately e...

Youngquist, Matthew and Q

The following Claremont doctoral dissertation is available at UMI (with thanks to Jacob Knee for drawing my attention to this): Linden Eric...

E-Search the Scriptures

Ken Ristau has a useful article in Faith Today May / June 2004: E-Search the Scriptures Online resources and Bible software bring a scholar...

Open Source Scholarship

On Sansblogue , Tim Bulkeley reflects on the question of Open Source Scholarship, prompted by an interesting post in Deinde , Why is Open So...

Medieval Institute Commentary Series

Further to my posts on The Church's Bible and the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture , Larry Swain draws my attention to a ser...

Guardian's UK University Tables

This may be of interest to some in the U.K.: The Guardian has today published its university guide for 2004: 2004 University Guides The ta...

Passion wins Emma award

Thanks to Helenann Hartley for sending this over. It is from BBC News on-line: Passion wins Emma media awards Biblical epic The Passion of ...

SBL Review of Biblical Literature

The lastest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature : Black, Stephanie L. Sentence Conjunctions in the Gospel of Matthew: καί, δέ, τότε, ...

The Church's Bible

I referred on Friday to the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture series published by IVP. Jeff Peterson draws my attention to a simil...

Taking another look at Paul

Thanks to Mark Nanos for sending over this interesting article from the Kansas City Star Taking another look at Paul Researchers are clearin...

Deinde's Biblical Studies Search

On Sansblogue , Tim Bulkeley draws attention to a useful feature on the Deinde site: Biblical Studies Search The search engine works by sea...

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

I've just been surfing around the InterVarsity Press web site and came across a large section of it devoted to this series: Ancient Chr...

Association Internationale Bible et Informatique, Leuven

Tim Bulkeley emails to mention that he is trying to get together a 60-90 minute slot with 15 minite presentations and panel discussion aroun...

In the Footsteps of Saint Paul, Edward Stourton

Two years ago I was lucky to be consultant on an excellent BBC Radio 4 series called In the Footsteps of Saint Paul , produced by Phil Pegum...

Review of Wright's Resurrection

On Xtalk , Jim West points to this review of Tom Wright's book on the resurrection from Human Events Online: Gibson's Passion Then W...

Kloppenborg Articles on-line

John S. Kloppenborg has made available on his homepage PDFs of several of his recent articles: John S. Kloppenborg Publications : “Isa 5:1-...

Jesus Box Documentary on Radio 4

I mentioned the Jesus Box documentary the other day. It was broadcast earlier today and you can now listen it archived on-line: The Jesus ...

Gospel of Mark runs into problems

As I have commented before (e.g. here ), Visual Bible International's next planned project has been The Gospel of Mark . VBI are the gr...

Gospel of John goes International

The Gospel of John has been out for months in the USA and Canada, indeed long before The Passion of the Christ . But the film remains pret...

SBL San Antonio Housing and Registration

Details on the Housing and Registration for this year's SBL Annual Meeting are now available: SBL 2004 Annual Meeting

Review of Bibical Literature latest

Latest from SBL Review of Biblical Literature include: Bailey, Kenneth E. Jacob & the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel's Story Rev...

SansBlogue

Also on Bible Software Review Weblog , Rubén Gómez points to a blog I'd not run across before: SansBlogue This is Tim Bulkeley's blo...

Blogwatch: Bible Software Review on Macs and Accordance

It's good when a blog entry generates discussion elsewhere, whether in other blogs, through emails or in the blog comments feature. On ...

Archbishop gets inside Mary Magdalene's mind

It is the tenth anniversary of the ordination of women. Yesterday, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave a sermon in which he gets inside the m...

The New Testament: An Orthodox Perspective

This is another one sent in by Holger Szesnat: Excerpts from the "The New Testament,An Orthodox Perspective" Volume One: Scripture...

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for this URL change: Journal of Theology for Southern Africa Now adjusted on the Journals page.

Cambridge post

The Tyndale House web site has details of a new post available in Cambridge: Sir Kirby Laing Senior NT Lectureship (PDF file)

BiblicalStudies.org.uk Article Reproductions

Many thanks to Holger Szesnat for this extremely useful listing of full text articles available on Robert Bradshaw's BiblicalStudies.org...

Biblical Studies Bulletin 31

Grove Books ' Biblical Studies Bulletin is a very useful occasional newsletter edited by Michael Thompson of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. T...

Review of Goldberg, The Curse of Ham

This week's Church Times has the following review: David M. Goldberg, The Curse of Ham: Race and slavery in early Judaism, Christianity...

Jesus Box Documentary on Radio 4

On Wednesday coming, BBC Radio 4 are broadcasting a documentary about the James ossuary. I talked to the producer about this a few weeks ag...

Passion of the Christ DVD release

The Passion of the Christ is to be released on DVD and VHS in the USA on 31 August this year; no news yet on other countries. Press releas...

Gospel According to God

On the Biblical Studies e-list, Cynthia Edenburg mentions a new film directed by Assi Dayan called The Gospel According to God apparently...

Life of Brian on Hollywood Jesus

David Bruce's Hollywood Jesus web site has a new page available to celebrate the re-release of Life of Brian and it includes a review ...

Life of Brian on Fresh Air

Thanks to Jim West for the notice that Fresh Air have a feature on Life of Brian . Details are available here: Fresh Air: Life of Brian Y...

TC-List and Textual Criticism

Wieland Willker sends over a reminder that he has set up a new e-list on Textual Criticism on Yahoo!Groups: Textual Criticism His hope is th...

Blog back soon

You can tell that I've been under massive pressure over work recently; it's not often that there are days at a time when I can'...

Blog email change

A reminder that from time to time I change the blog email to run away from spammers. I use the Bloglines facility to do this. I just menti...

Gospel of John Passion on-line

The American Bible Society has made available a lengthy segment of the Visual Bible's The Gospel of John on-line: The Gospel of John: V...

Rudolf-Bultmann-Gesellschaft

I ran across this on Jim West's Biblical Studies web site: Rudolf-Bultmann-Gesellschaft für Hermeneutische Theologie e.V. Sitz: Marburg...

Article about JBL

The SBL Forum this month has an article providing some information about the Journal of Biblical Literature : Journal of Biblical Literatur...

Richard Kiley as Matthew and as Luke

Here's something I'd never noticed before. Richard Kiley , who plays the "old Matthew", the narrator of the Gospel, in th...

Pagels answers Witherington on Thomas

The sixth and final intalment of the Scholarly Smackdown on beliefnet between Elaine Pagels and Ben Witherington III, "Did Paul Distor...

Witherington reviews The Gospel of John

Christianity Today have today published a review of The Gospel of John by Ben Witherington III: The Gospel, Literally A Break-through film...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest reviews published on the SBL Review of Biblical Literature include: Barrett, C. K. On Paul: Essays on His Life, Work and Influence i...

Cruden of Concordance Fame

The first concordance of the Bible I bought, while still at school, was by Cruden. I was told the legend: he was a madman who channelled h...

John Barton reviews K. A. Kitchen

Also in this week's Church Times : K. A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003) Review by John...

Review of Lapham on the NT Apocrypha

There's a lively review in the most recent Church Times of the following: Fred Lapham, An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha ...

Bibliography on Gospel Synopses and Harmonies

Lorin Cranford has the following useful resource: Bibliography on Gospel Synopses and Harmonies

Acts-L materials

I recently asked about the whereabouts of the Acts-L older materials. Thanks to Mike Parsons for following this up. They are now located h...

How to be an historical consultant: Robin Lane Fox

I've often talked here about the role played by historical consultants in films and documentaries (and I have written a little about my ...

Peter and Paul and Jesus film trivia

Following on from my previous blog entry , the IMDb entry for Kenneth Colley , who plays Jesus in the opening (post-credit) sequence in Life...

Second Coming of Brian

Good to see reference to the twenty-fifth anniversary release of Life of Brian on Paleojudaica ; this is from the Houston Chronicle 'P...

Highway of Holiness

An article on Christian History and Biography discusses "divine purpose" in current popular culture: The Lord of the Rings, The P...

Harry Hahne homepage

I have added the following new entry to the NTGateway Scholars: H page: Harry A. Hahne Hahne is at Golden Gate Seminary in the USA. It...

Scholarly Writing as Adventure

One of the new essays on May's SBL Forum is: Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, "A Brewing Thought, a Spot of Tea: Scholarly Writing as Adven...

English Reader's Synopsis

I commented yesterday on Zeba Crook's homepage . I would now like to draw attention to this element on his homepage: An English Reader...