Thursday, April 30, 2009

Biblioblog Top 50 Latest

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The new Biblioblog Top 50 is now available: Biblioblog Top 50: April 2009 As usual, a huge amount of work has gone into it. If the author w...
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Archaeology, Politics and Media Symposium Write-up

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I attended the Archaeology, Politics and Media Symposium at Duke last week and Bob Cargill has helpfully written up a running commentary on...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Historical Jesus: What if key pieces are missing?

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When preparing to teach the Historical Jesus last year, I asked the question Why is the Historical Jesus Quest so difficult? The first diff...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Stephen Carlson on Origen's Use of Thomas

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From time to time there has been discussion on the blogs about the e-lists (e.g. here, Are e-lists dying? ). One of the e-lists that has ma...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Archaeology, Politics and the Media Symposium at Duke today

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I will be at the Duke Symposium on Archaeology, Politics and the Media today, details here: Duke Symposium: Archaeology, Politics and the Me...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

The Talpiot Tomb and the Bloggers III: When bloggers apparently fail to make an impact

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In the previous two posts on this topic, I have celebrated some of the blogging successes in their critiques of the Discovery Channel docume...
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The Talpiot Tomb and the Bloggers II: A Change in Tone

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In my previous post, I looked at a success story in the blogging of the Talpiot "Jesus family tomb" affair, where accurate and kno...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

The Talpiot Tomb and the Bloggers I: An Early Success

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On Thursday this week I am giving a short presentation at the Duke Symposium on Archaeology, Politics and the Media: Re-Visioning the Middle...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Centurion's Sarcastic Cry in Mark 15.39

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The centurion's cry in Mark 15.39, "Truly this was the son of God", is often described as a "confession". It is the...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

The Horrors of Crucifixion and Amnesty International

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This week in my Historical Jesus class we came to one of the topics that I never particularly enjoy teaching, not because it is lacking in i...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

BBC Passion repeated on BBC4 tomorrow

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The Passion gets a repeat showing on BBC4 tomorrow, Wednesday 8 April, at 7.30pm. They are showing all four episodes in an omnibus versio...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Syneidon Podcast: Exploring the Gospel of Mark

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Regular readers will know if my enthusiasm for the University of Birmingham's Syneidon Project, which is run by Richard Goode and Hele...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Beg the question alert: Crossley

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From James Crossley's Jesus in An Age of Terror , 36: "Note throughout that Ristau did not really condemn those involved -- at best...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

The Dilettante Hobby Horse Bibliobloggger's Behaviour

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In an earlier post , I drew attention to the uncanny similarities between the style of Jim West and the style of the anonymous author of th...
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Hyperlinking endnotes: a suggestion for James Crossley

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I am currently enjoying James Crossley's Jesus in An Age of Terror and hope to comment here in due course. One quick suggestion comes ...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Moratorium on Biblioblogging April Fool's Jokes

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It's April 1 and once again we have a selection of April Fool's jokes on the biblioblogs. As usual, there are varying degrees of sk...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Latest Biblioblog Top 50

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The latest Biblioblog Top 50 is out and it is not good news for my NT Blog, which is nowhere to be seen, though the NT Gateway blog still c...
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Who is behind the Dilettante Hobby Horse Blog?

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In recent days there has been some speculation about the identity of the author of the new Dilettante Hobby Horse blog . As soon as it beca...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Beg the Question alert

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From Mark Allen Powell, Jesus as a Figure in History (Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox, 1998), 78: "The group's [i.e. Jesus S...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Dilettante Hobby Horse Biblioblog

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The artist formerly known as N T Wrong has another new blog (see also The Biblioblog Top 50 ) and it resurrects one of the great innovations...
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