Monday, September 16, 2013

A Tale of Two Replicas

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The recent renewed discussion of the Talpiot Tombs, brought about by Simcha Jacobovici's post featuring an interview with Professor Émi...
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Émile Puech's Statement on the Talpiot Tomb Images

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I expressed some surprise over Prof. Émile Puech's apparent endorsement of Simcha Jacobovici's claims about the Talpiot Tombs on Thu...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Simcha Jacobovici and the Talpiot Tomb Again!

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I have spent a lot of time, some would say wasted a lot of time, engaging critically with claims made by Simcha Jacobovici in relation to ...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Simon Schama's misreading of Paul

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I've greatly enjoyed the first couple of episodes of Simon Schama's Story of the Jews currently airing on BBC2.  Schama is a wond...
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Monday, September 02, 2013

How it used to look!

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This is how it used to look back then (or at least as far back as I can get it on the wayback machine ).  I must admit that I rather liked t...
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NT Blog's Ten Year Anniversary!

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Happy birthday to me!  The NT Blog is ten years old today.  Its first post in what was then called "The NT Gateway Blog" went out ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The art of writing negative book reviews

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 A couple of years ago, I asked whether Paul Foster's review of Bartosz Adamczewski's Q or Not Q? might qualify as The most negativ...
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Thursday, August 08, 2013

Sean Freyne on Galilee, Jesus and Christology -- on Youtube

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While reflecting tonight on the sad news of Sean Freyne's death earlier this week, I fell to wondering if any of his lectures had been ...

Death of Paul W. Meyer

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More sad news.  I was sorry to hear through Michael Gorman just now (on Fb) of the death of Paul W. Meyer.  Princeton Theological Seminary...

Death of Seán Freyne

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I was very sorry to hear earlier in the week of the death of Professor Seán Freyne ( Larry Hurtado , Jim West , Jim Davila , Michael Bird ...

Raymond E. Brown Website

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Today, on the anniversary of Raymond Brown's death, Matthew Montonini has released a new website that pays tribute to him.  Anyone wh...
Monday, August 05, 2013

The Canon of Doctor Who and the Canon of the New Testament

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With the announcement of the twelfth doctor's casting still fresh in our minds, it's perhaps time for blog post about Doctor Who ...
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More Caird Lectures Online

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Jeffrey Gibson recently made available a whole bunch of audio recordings of George Caird's lectures.  I uploaded these to my webspace,...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Academic Blogging: What are the benefits?

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Continuing on with Joshua Mann's questions (see Why Blog? and When and Why? ), he asks next: 2. What are a few of the benefits you s...
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Thursday, August 01, 2013

Academic blogging: When and Why?

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Now that my ridiculous pre-amble is written, here is the first of my answers to Joshua Mann 's questions, with thanks for his interest,...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Why blog?

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In one of my favourite TV series ever, The Prisoner  (1967), there is an episode dealing with 1960s anxieties about the ever-increasing po...
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Pericopes, passages or paragraphs?

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Scholars love their jargon.  And New Testament scholarship is choc-full of jargon.  Sometimes I get a bit tired of it.  For a bit of fun, I ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The joy of failed predictions

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So with reference to my previous post , here is the interview question that made me smile when I re-read it.  The interviewer is Jim West, ...
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Biblioblogs.com still defunct

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I've been writing a paper, now with first draft completed, for the SBL International in July.  It's advertised title is "Pods, ...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Tom Boomershine Performs Mark

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I blogged about Performances of Mark's Gospel the other day and Matthew Montonini drew my attention to several clips of Tom Boomershine...
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