Amazon clamp down on anonymous reviews

Back in February, I commented on an interesting story in The Observer on Amazon's anonymous reviews ( Authors reviewing their own books...

Kaler on Ehrman's Lost Christianities

One of the latest reviews I particularly enjoyed from Review of Biblical Literature ( see previous ) was Michael Kaler's Review of Bar...

Review of Bibical Literature latest

New reviews added to the Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading: Cook, John Granger The Interpretation of the New Te...

Philo Blogger back

Torrey Seland left a comment here and it made me wonder if he was blogging again after his summer break. And I notice that he has been blo...

Harland wins F.W. Beare Award

Another one from my catch-up file, going back a couple of weeks. Congratulations to Philip Harland , author of the fine web site on Associa...

JSNT latest

Still in catch-up mode (pretty much the story of my life), here's the table of contents for the latest Journal for the Study of the New ...

Groningen Blog Watch

The SBL International Meeting is currently underway in Groningen in the Netherlands. I cannot make it to this myself because of child care...

David Alan Black blog and website

On Bible Software Review Weblog , Rubén Gómez draws attention to this blog belonging to David Alan Black, Professor of New Testament and Gre...

Is the Farrer Theory too boring?

In an enjoyable post on Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson suggests that the Farrer Theory's "fatal flaw" is that it is "too ...

Bible Software Review and Weblog move

As Stephen Carlson notes ( Hypotyposeis ), Rubén Gómez has new URLs for his web site and blog, having obtained the handy domain name http://...

Paula Fredriksen full-text articles on-line

Michael Pahl alerted me to the fact that once again Paula Fredriksen's homepage had moved and that my link was dead (See Scholars: F . ...

Exploring New Testament Greek

SCM have put out a new flyer on Peter Kevern and Paula Gooder, Exploring New Testament Greek : Come and visit the companion website to our ...

NA28 developments

On Textual Criticism (still no sign of the return of TC-List -- gone for good? I never had an email back from Jimmy Adair when I enquired...

First Century Synagogues

Several of the blogs (e.g. Paleojudaica , Textweek ) reference this interesting article in Bible and Interpretation . Thanks too to Mark El...

N. T. Wright interview

Over on Textweek , Jenee Woodard draws attention to this interview on Beliefnet: Your Spirit-Powered Resurrection Body Renowned Bible schola...

Latest Biblica

I've been meaning to blog this since earlier in the week, but my blogging time continues to be pretty limited at the moment. Anyway, Ji...

Church Times Reviews

Reviews in today's Church Times : Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould, Jesus Now and Then R. Alastair Campbell, The Story We Live By: A...

Fernando, The Relationship between Law and Love in the Gospel of John

Thanks to Professor Sophia for mentioning this new book from Peter Lang publishers: G. Charles A. Fernando, The Relationship between Law ...

Carolyn Osiek, Reading the Bible as Women

The New Interpreter's Bible  web site features a short article in which Carolyn Osiek reflects on her contribution to Volume 1 of The In...

Pentecostal Commentary: New Testament

A second press release from Pilgrim Press: THE PILGRIM PRESS LAUNCHES "PENTECOSTAL COMMENTARY: NEW TESTAMENT" SERIES Contact: Aimé...

Feminist Companion to the New Testament

This press release is from Pilgrim Press: THE PILGRIM PRESS LAUNCHES "THE FEMINIST COMPANION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT" Contact: Aimée ...

Review of Warren Trenchard, Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek

RogueClassicism lists the latest reviews in BMCR . One of interest here: Warren C. Trenchard, A Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek ...

Review of Bibical Literature latest

Latest from the Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading. Another bumper crop: Carter, Warren Pontius Pilate: Portrai...

BMCR Reviews

Still loads of catching up to do;  so expected some older materials over the coming week.  Two review in BMCR that may be of interest:   Te...

Form dropped

For years I have had a Form for the submission of new sites to the New Testament Gateway.  Today I've had to take it away because the le...

Karen King: What is Gnosticism: Review

Today's Church Times carries the following review:   Karen King, What is Gnosticism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003) Re...

postmodernbible blog

Pete Philips  of Cliff College  writes to let me know of his new blog:   postmodernbible   I notice that AKMA  is already reading and commen...

SBL Annual Meeting Programme

The SBL Annual Meeting (November 20-23 2004, San Antonio, Texas) programme is now available on-line:   2004 Annual Meeting: Preliminary Prog...

More blogger changes

Blogger  has introduced some more changes, several of them quite useful.  There are keyboard shortcuts for editing posts, something I find v...

Biblical Theme Park in Israel

On Deinde , Paul Nikkel notes this extraordinary new story from Arutz Sheva :   Permits Received for Biblical Theme Resort

Kovacs and Rowland: Revelation

News of this book from Blackwell's , courtesy of Jamie O'Brien (click the links for further information and sample chapters): Revela...

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

There is a new issue of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus out: Vol. 2 No. 2 (June 2004). Thanks to Sean du Toit in Commen...

N. Clayton Croy

Reading Lincoln Blumell's review of N. Clayton Croy's The Mutilation of Mark's Gospel , a book I have still not got round to rea...

Publishers Weekly on Passion Book

Amazon.com have have added a pre-publication review of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ . It's taken from Publishe...

Bible and Interpretation site return

It is good to see Bible and Interpretation site's Breaking News section is back again after a short break. One of the stories it links...

Review of Bibical Literature latest

Another big crop from the Review of Biblical Literature : Arzt-Grabner, Peter Philemon: Papyrologische Koimmentare zum Neuen Testament: Band...

Roman Wives, Roman Widows Review

Today's Church Times features the following book review: Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The appearance of new women and the Pauline communi...

Passion of the Christ Book Announced

This press release just in: ----------------- BIBLICAL SCHOLARS ASSESS GIBSON'S PASSION IN BOOK TIMED FOR DVD'S RELEASE Contact: ...

Exploring New Testament Greek web site

I've had a look and notice that the companion web site for Exploring New Testament Greek (see previous blog entry ) is now live: The Qu...

New Introductory Greek Book

I have heard from Peter Kevern that his co-authored book is now available: Paula Gooder and Peter Kevern, Exploring New Testament Greek: A W...

Review of Bibical Literature latest

A couple of weeks' worth of Review of Biblical Literature . There is a lot that is of interest here: Bieringer, Reimund, Frederique Va...

Ancient Studies - New Technology

This call for papers appeared today on the Elenchus E-List from Ralph Mathisen: UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: ANCIENT STUDIES -- NEW TECHNOLOGY I...

Return of Felix Just, S. J.'s Webpages

Many thanks to Felix Just, S. J. and a score of others, for getting in touch about the new location for his web site. Apparently LMU closed...

Review of NT Gateway

In comments , Mahlon Smith (great to hear from you!) posts this link: 3 Clix.Info: /New Testament / Gospels It features an flattering Review...

Back from Smelling the Flowers

I am looking forward to catching up with some blogging again now that I am back from smelling the flowers or, more precisely, enjoying lots ...