Blog blips, gaps and breaks

Sorry there's been so little blogging lately. The academic life, or my academic life at least, tends to throw up extraordinarily busy p...

Where are Felix Just's webpages?

Sadly, there has been no sign of any of Felix Just's web pages on the internet for the last couple of weeks. Bellarmine College of Libe...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

I sometimes wonder if it is worth my while posting these here since I'm sure most of my readers will receive the email alerts, but it ma...

Feedburner RSS Feed

In Bible Software Review Weblog , Rubén Gómez noted that he now had an RSS feed available via Feedburner . It puzzled me a little at first ...

The Future of Electronic Synopses

In a useful post on Bible Software Review Weblog , Rubén Gómez asks about the future of electronic synopses of the Gospels, quoting a little...

Does anyone use Gmail?

AKMA asks "Does anyone actually use gmail for anything? So far, I don’t, really." Yes, I think it's pretty good. The 1,000...

Universities attempt to tackle plagiarism

This article in yesterday's Observer reports on the rising problem of plagiarism of internet resources in university students' work...

Mary Boys on The Passion of the Christ

Thanks to David Mackinder for alerting me to this, from the latest issue of Cross Currents : “I DIDN’T SEE ANY ANTI-SEMITISM” Why Many Chri...

Yahoo!Groups goes RSS

There's a useful new feature now available on Yahoo!Groups -- each e-list now has an RSS feed. If you follow e-lists and also use an a...

Terry Larm on Hebrews

Thanks to Martin Webber for this one: adjusted URL for the following: Terry A. Larm, “Hebrews 10:1-18: Jesus Christ, the Final Sacrifice” ,...

Christ of Faith and History blog

Charles Miller gets in touch to announce his new blog: Christ of Faith and History Over the coming weeks and months I hope to provide a usef...

UK Schools Classics Threat

Sorry to see this in today's Guardian : Teachers angry at plan to ditch Latin and Greek Rebecca Smithers, education correspondent Classi...

A Throttle to Knowledge? Response to AKMA on "Links Pages"

[See update ] In a comment on a recent post , AKMA mentions a conference paper he gave recently: Cards, Links and Research -- Teaching Tech...

Student blogs

On Biblical Theology , Jim West draws attention to a blog called U of London Bachelor of Divinity: Davide's Notes , which describes itse...

SBL Inventory Sale

If you haven't yet looked at it, the SBL has a pretty good sale on at the moment -- six pages of books at $5 each plus postage and packi...

Passion Synopsis

Thanks to Catherine Smith for this link. The American Bible Society have produced a simple synopsis of the Passion Narratives in the Gospe...

Open Source Scholarship odds and ends

Further to my post on the Open [Source] Scholarship discussion last week, some odds and ends are worth mentioning that have cropped up, or ...

On-line database of New Testament Manuscripts

Thanks to Ross Scaife for sending this over. It is based at Ross Scaife's Stoa , which I've just mentioned: Online Database of New ...

Stoa Consortium goes blog

The Stoa Consortium has a fine new blog-face, if that's the right way to describe it. Essentially, if you go direct to Stoa at www.sto...

Tom Wright interview

Jenee Woodard mentions this on Textweek . It's just published in Christianity Today : The Dick Staub Interview: Tom Wright's Theolo...

Get educated and live longer

My blog @ anduril.ca mentions this article. Good news for the educated! This is from BBC News, with the relevant paragraph excerpted: The...

SBL Forum June

The SBL Forum has published new content for June and the focus is on "the social contexts of biblical scholarship": SBL Forum The ...

Open [Source] Scholarship discussion continues

It is a sign of how far the biblioblogs have come, and in a very short time, that there are enough of us to have a discussion with several p...

More on the new blogger

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila responds to my comments about blogger. I see Jim's point about the "disimprovement" over the da...

Citing Electronic Resources in Research

I commented recently on Denver Journal 's latest including their New Testament Exegesis Bibliography . On Bible Software Review Weblog ...

Short Introductions: Sample Chapters

As regular readers will know, I am a fan of publishers placing sample chapters of their books on the web to enable you to get a taster befor...

The Passion's Passionate Despisers

Bible and Interpretation link to this article in the latest First Things : The Passion's Passionate Despisers Kenneth L. Woodward First...

Denver Journal latest

Some new items on the Denver Journal: Denver Journal Volume 7 (2004) Note in particular: New Testament Exegesis Bibliography (Craig L. Blom...

New Blogger Grumbles

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila grumbles about the upgrade to Blogger , which I use too. I've actually quite enjoyed the new format myself...

Dr J. I. H. McDonald (1933-2004)

This sad news from Larry Hurtado: With sadness, I report that my beloved colleague, Dr. J. I. H. McDonald (1933-2004), died peacefully early...