Friday, January 13, 2012

Wilfred Lambert Obituaries

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I posted on the death my former colleague Wilfred Lambert  in December.  Jim West followed up his earlier posts with a notice that Wilfred...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Returning to the Talpiot Tomb

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There is a new article over on Bible and Interpretation about the Talpiot Tomb, the tomb alleged by Simcha Jacobovici and others to have be...
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Monday, January 09, 2012

Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity

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Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity  is edited by Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne and it will be out this summer, published by...
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Duke Holy Land Archaeology

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Thanks to Eric Meyers for this great picture of our students spelling out the name of our favourite university in the Caesarea theater, ta...
Friday, January 06, 2012

Star of Bethlehem (1912) available online

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One of the oldest Bible films is now available to watch in toto online, The Star of Bethlehem (Lawrence Marston, 1912): The Star of Bethl...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Hilarious but Adorable Nativity Clip

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This made my day -- an adorable video of a Nativity play with one of the angels stealing the show. Thanks to AKMA and Tim Gombis for sharin...
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Friday, December 02, 2011

Death of Wilfred Lambert, Obituary and Reflections

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Jim West reports on the sad news of the death of Prof. Wilfred Lambert and links to a nice, detailed obituary in the Birmingham Post : ...
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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Bethlehemian Rhapsody

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I really love this. As I've said before, there are not enough puppets on the NT blog:   Thanks to Stephen Carlson, Judy Redman an...
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Biblical Studies Carnival 69

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The latest and unbelievably comprehensive Biblical Studies Carnival is up: Biblical Studies Carnival 69 (November 2011) It is compile...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

What if the Pauline letters were labelled after their sender?

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Since we are towards the end of the semester, I am at that point in my NT intro course where we are looking at the (so-called) Catholic Epis...
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Method and Meaning -- Harold Attridge Festschrift

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I was delighted to receive today my copy of Andrew B. McGowan & Kent H. Richards,  Method and Meaning: Essays on New Testament Interpr...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pods, blogs and other time-wasters

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I have been invited by the Student Advisory Board at the Society of Biblical Literature to speak at a session on the "Wired-in Generati...
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It's SBL again

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The time has come for the SBL Annual Meeting again, when thousands of Biblical scholars all descend on some American city and hang out toget...
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Erasure History Conference

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As I mentioned the other day, I went to an excellent conference on "Erasure History" in Toronto last weekend.  I tweeted through t...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Erasure History Conference

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Tony Burke has already mentioned this, over on Apocryphicity , but there is a conference later this week (11-12 November) on Erasure Hist...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

The Origin of the Symbol "Q"

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An anonymous writer on the Sheffield Biblical Studies  blog has a nice post on  Why was ‘Q’ named ‘Q’: because ‘Q’ comes after ‘P’?  in whic...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Matthew Effect

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In a comment on my previous blog post, The Dalai Lama Quotation and the Historical Sceptic , Stephen Carlson notes that this is an example ...
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That Dalai Lama Quotation, and the Historical Sceptic

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Seen this on Facebook recently? It's been doing the rounds "The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity,...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Bloggers Get-together at the SBL

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Bob Cargill is putting out the call for a  bloggers' get-together at the SBL in San Francisco.  Here's the link to his blog post wi...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Bart Ehrman "something of a superman"

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It's official -- Bart Ehrman is "something of a superman when it comes to scriptural studies", at least according to a review ...
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