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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

If it walks like a duck: Ossuary 6 of the Talpiot 'Patio' Tomb depicts commonly used Jewish images

I am delighted to be able to publish today a guest post from Wim G. Meijer about the images on the ossuary 6 in Talpiot Tomb B. Dr Meijer h...

Monday, November 18, 2013

When two worlds collide: SBL & the Day of the Doctor

There will be lots of doctors walking around in tweedy jackets this weekend in Baltimore but sadly, most of them will be obsessing about ...

Friday, November 15, 2013

"Tomb of Jesus" Volume from Eerdmans - Charlesworth Interview & Errors in the Blurb

Over on the EerdWord blog , there's a new video interview with James Charlesworth (on Youtube here ) in which he discusses the forthco...

Monday, November 11, 2013

Bible Secrets Revealed on History Channel, Wednesday

History Channel now has a website devoted to its new six-part documentary series about the Bible: Bible Secrets Revealed The site feat...

Jerome Murphy O'Connor, O. P., 1935-2013

I was so sorry to hear of the death of Jerome Murphy O'Connor earlier today. Not only was he a fine scholar, but he was also a kind-...

Thursday, November 07, 2013

Bible Secrets Revealed Intro

Here's the first couple of minutes of the forthcoming History Channel series Bible Secrets Revealed : This is taken from the Prometh...

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Death of François Bovon

I was very sorry to hear today of the death of Prof. François Bovon of Harvard Divinity School. (HT: several Fb friends & Jim West ). ...

Friday, November 01, 2013

Britney Spears Musical about Jesus?!

Thanks to Helen Ingram for this one. If it were April Fool's Day, I'd think this was a particularly fine prank. But it seems to ...

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Bible Secrets Revealed, History Channel

Candida Moss in Bible Secrets Revealed Over on his XKV8R blog , Robert Cargill announces a new six part documentary to air soon on Hist...

Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Bride of God or the Lost Gospel of Joseph and Asyath, Richard Bauckham

On Sunday, I posted some comments on Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson's forthcoming book and documentary, Jacobovici and Wilson's...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Jacobovici and Wilson's "Lost Gospel"

While I was noodling around on the internet to remind myself of the exact titles of Marcus Borg's and Burton Mack's Lost Gos...

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Q, Doctor Who and the difference between "lost" and "hypothetical"

Regular readers will know that I am not averse to finding an excuse to talk about the rich potential for analogies between scholarship on ...

Friday, October 04, 2013

Jimmy Carter, Jesus and "the Matthew effect"

I have discussed the Matthew effect here before whereby a a piece of research, an idea, a quotation, a story gets associated with a more ...

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Candida Moss takes on Bill O'Reilly

This is so impressive. Three cheers to Professor Candida Moss, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Notre Dame University! ...

Friday, September 27, 2013

Was Jesus the first person to tweet?

From my room on Toronto, I caught on CBS news this morning Cardinal Ravasi's claim that Jesus was the first person to tweet . His sermo...

Thursday, September 26, 2013

York Christian Apocrypha Symposium 2013

I am on my way to the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium 2013 in Toronto. Today (Thursday) is arrival day for the speakers, but the confe...

Sunday, September 22, 2013

How accurate is that replica, and why does it matter?

After discussions of the Talpiot Tombs resumed recently in the blogs (see James McGrath, Talpiot Tomb Latest and Talpiot Tomb Representati...

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Philip Esler Appointment at the University of Gloucestershire

News of Philip Esler's appointment at the University of Gloucestershire: University announces new Portland Chair in New Testament Stu...

Friday, September 20, 2013

Q and Q reading the Critical Edition of Q!

Many thanks to AKMA for for this one. I had said : "Anyway, I love this cartoon in which those two famous Qs read the British mag...

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Q is for . . . . Q and Q reading Q

We reached the stage of my New Testament Intro class today when we were looking at the question of Q. It's tough to teach because one h...

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