Possible blogging break

I am flying to Rome later today to take part in a documentary being filmed for Channel 4 with the working title, "Who wrote the Bible?...

Francis Watson articles on-line

Thanks to Andy Goodliff for drawing to my attention the fact that Francis Watson's homepage now features a good number of full-text arti...

The Theology Generation

There's an encouraging article, for those of us teaching Theology in the UK at least, in this week's Tablet : The theology generatio...

Oral Performance and Its Context

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.44 has added a detailed review of what looks like a fascinating and helpful book, especially given the c...

Relaunch of The Expository Times

Alison Jack, the executive editor of the Expository Times , has sent me this information about the relaunch of the journal. I asked if I mi...

Questioning Q

My copy of Questioning Q arrived in today's post. This book is a collection of essays edited by Nick Perrin and me and featuring a For...

The Miners' Bishop: Brooke Foss Westcott

Last week's Church Times (I was away at the weekend) features a review of an interesting looking biography of the New Testament scholar...

Problems with Semeia on Ebind

Monica Vila Echague points out to me that the Semeia volumes on Ebind now ask for a username and password so it seemed that these were no l...

Short Review on Perspectives on the Passion of the Christ

I have commented before on the Miramax book called Perspectives on the Passion of the Christ and I am still planning to post my comments on...

Mahlon Smith revisits The Passion

In Mahlon Smith's Virtual Religion Weblog , he revisits The Passion of the Christ with some comments on some comments by Catherine Bari...

Tom Wright answers emailers

Over on the N. T. Wright Page , Tom Wright provides answers to questions asked by various emailers on the "WrightSaid" email list...

More Gems on Katapi

And it's not just Streeter's Four Gospels (see previous post ) but several other full on-line books made available on Katapi inclu...

On-line Streeter, The Four Gospels

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson notes this remarkable development: B. H. Streeter, The Four Gospels: A Study of the Origins (London: Macm...

AKMA on the SBLSP clause

It's good to see AKMA coming on board with the concerns expressed in various blogs over the "hands off" clause ("Because...

Caviezel mistaken for Jesus

OnlyPunjab.com has this remarkable story about James Caviezel (who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ ): Jesus actor mistaken for the...

Herodian Palace excavation

RogueClassicism references this interesting article on Haaretz : The Jewish millionaire who surrendered to the Romans By Ran Shapira David ...

Review of Biblical Literature Latest

Latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature Dart, John Decoding Mark Reviewed by Lincoln Blumell Dart, John Decoding Mark Reviewed...

Paul Books and Articles page update

I am teaching Paul this term, so have been updating some links on the NT Gateway page on Paul, specifically Books and Articles . There are ...

January 2005 Conference on the Rhetorics of Identity

This was posted yesterday on Rhetoric-L by L. G. Bloomquist on behalf of J. David Hester: Dear Friends and Colleagues - Due to interest con...

New N. T. Wright articles

The N. T. Wright Page has published three more articles by N. T. Wright. These are clearly lectures of some kind and appear to be three le...

Warren Carter on Pilate

Bible and Interpretation have published a short essay on Pontius Pilate, by Warren Carter: Pontius Pilate: Roman Governor Warren Carter

N. T. Wright, Future of the People of God

The N. T. Wright page provides a link to Open Source Theology 's materials from a conference featuring Tom Wright: The Future of the P...

Horizon on King Solomon's Tablet of Stone

I forgot to mention this earlier, so apologies to anyone in the UK who might have caught this if I'd have mentioned it in time, but toni...

Print Google Search

Open Access note this useful resource from Research Buzz: Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search Form This is a nice li...

Death of Jesus and the Birth of the Gospels

I have been invited to speak to clergy from the Worcester diocese today at a Patronage Day at Worcester Cathedral . My topic is "The D...

Synoptic Problem Web Site makeover

Stephen Carlson's Synoptic Problem Home Page has begun a makeover, announced on Hypotyposeis and with comments already by Rubén Gómez ...

"Hands off half-baked papers" @ Deinde

It is good to see Deinde back and blogging again. For some reason, my Bloglines stopped picking up the RSS feed for it so I missed it for ...

Blogging mechanics 2: Comments old and new

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced blogger's own comments feature ( New Blogger Features ), explaining that while this was preferable t...

Blogging mechanics 1: links in new windows

Should blogging links open in new windows ? One correspondent and one commenter say yes; two commenters say no, one suggesting that one ...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

There is always time, of course, for the latest reviews on NT themes from the Review of Biblical Literature Edwards, Mark John Reviewed by W...

Bits and bobs, blog blips and breaks

When late on Thursday night I happily wrote that I would be blogging again on Monday, I'd not realized just how overworked I'd be on...

Blogging rest

I am away in Oxford, London and Paris this weekend and will not be taken my blogging machine with me, so the weblog is taken a break until M...

Theologians urge caution over Passion DVD

Beliefnet today carries this story: Christian Leaders Urge Caution on 'Passion' DVD Release By Kevin Eckstrom A statement signed by ...

Mahlon Smith's Blog

Many thanks to Gail Dawson for this one: Virtual Religion Weblog This is "the Online Journal of Mahlon H. Smith", recently launche...

Passion of the Christ book arrives

Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ I was happy to find in today's post my copy of this book, Robert Webb and Kathle...

SBL Seminar Papers Discussion continues

Further to my post on this topic yesterday, More on the SBL Seminar Papers , see now also: Copyright and Blogging (Rubén Gómez at Bible Sof...

JSNT latest

The latest edition of JSNT is now available: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Vol. 27 No. 1 (September 2004) Contents are as fol...

Trobisch URLs

Religion-Online have been reorganizing their site again, with all new URLs, which is going to cause quite a bit of updating for me. Here...

More on the SBL Seminar Papers

Following on from my posting on the SBL Seminar Papers On-line , Jim Davila comments on Copyright Confusion on Paleojudaica. In addition t...

JTS latest

The Journal of Theological Studies has a new issue: The Journal of Theological Studies , Volume 55, Issue 2, October 2004 I'm afraid th...

Accordance: Links to Oaksoft

This circular has gone round from Helen Brown at Accordance: We have a problem with Google: sites are rated partly by the number of sites th...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest from the Review of Biblical Literature : Malherbe, A. J. The Letters to the Thessalonians: A New Translation with Introduction and Co...

SBL Seminar Papers On-line

The SBL Seminar Papers are now available on-line: SBL Seminar Papers 2004 The on-line version replaces the older paper version. It looks li...

New look for the N. T. Wright Page

Kevin Bush's "Unofficial web site dedicated to the Bishop of Durham" has a nice new look; visit it at: N. T. Wright Page

Carlson on Kloppenborg on Goodacre Part 2

On Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson has the second part of his critical review of John Kloppenborg's "On Dispensing with Q?: Goodacre...

What's in a blog @ Bible Software Review Weblog

There's an enjoyable post on Bible Software Review Weblog , enjoyable not least because I found myself in agreement with most of what Ru...

BMCR Review of Witherington on Revelation

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.14 features the following enthusiastic review: Ben Witherington III, Revelation (Cambridge: Cambridge U...

Links opening in new windows

A correspondent suggested to me that it would be useful to have links in this blog opening in new windows ( illustration ). So I'll giv...

KALOS 2.9

KALÓS, the free classical Greek computer programme, has announced Version 2.9: KALÓS 2.9 In this version we finally took our \"Tutti i ...

Google Search

I've added a Google search now to this blog; my PicoSearch finally reached its 1,500 page limit this week and this necessitated the cha...

Greek Study Day

This message posted on behalf of Geoffrey Williams: This is to give you advance notice of a proposed STUDY DAY for teachers of NT Greek in ...

New blogger features

I've updated my blogger template to feature two of the new blogger facilities. First, I've added Blogger's own comments facilit...

Elsewhere in the blogosphere

I was sorry to see the announcment this morning about the end of Νεφελοκοκκυγία . More happily, it's good to see Deinde back on-line ...

Ancient Narratives of Crucifixion

It is encouraging that the E-Lists still have the ability to generate lively and intelligent discussion and so to help out with one's re...

Passion of the Christ DVD sales rocket

Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this one from BBC News: Passion 'beats Rings DVD record' Biblical epic The Passion of the Christ has ...

Philip Esler, Conflict and Identity in Romans

Here is another one I'm adding to my Reading List: Philip Esler, Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul's Lette...

Gospel of Mark: Articles

I've made some additions and have updated some URLs on the Gospel of Mark: Articles page, new URLs for J. D. H. Amador, “Dramatic Incon...

Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World

On About Ancient / Classical History , N. S. Gill writes one of her short, helpful reviews of Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World ...

Carlson on Kloppenborg on Goodacre

Over on Hypotyposeis , Stephen Carlson offers some opening reflections on an article that John Kloppenborg wrote in response to my Case Agai...

BNTC Papers

I have received several emails asking me if the main papers from this year's British New Testament Conference are available or will bec...

Visual Bible International Struggles

I am sorry to see that the Visual Bible International company, who made Matthew and the recent Gospel of John , are still in difficulties. ...

Annual Seminar on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament

This information in from Steve Moyise: Annual Seminar on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament Location of Seminar St Deiniol’s...

SBL Forum latest

The SBL Forum has new content for September and "this month SBL Forum features essays related to biblical scholarship and theological...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

The latest additions to the SBL's Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading: Das, A. Andrew Paul and the Jews Revi...

Birthday wishes

Thanks very much to Jim Davila for his birthday greetings for this blog, one year old last Thursday. I should mention a small typo -- it i...

BNTC 2004: others' comments

Jim Davila has comments on Paleojudaica , including a good summary of Jimmy Dunn's fine and funny exposition of how the society develope...

BNTC 2004 comments concluded

The setting for the conference was ideal. With the exception of the Friday evening excursion to New College, everything was on the one site...