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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Skepticism about Jesus' Wife Papyrus in the Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. The news is that there is no news: Skepticism About ...

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Defining an Apocalypse and Making Toast

We have recently come to the end of the semester here at Duke and in my New Testament Introduction, we reached the Book of Revelation righ...

Friday, December 13, 2013

The Apostle Paul - A Polite Bribe

Robert Orlando's documentary film about Paul, A Polite Bribe , premieres in New York City next Thursday, 19 December, at 8.10pm (poste...

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Whatever happened to the Gospel of Jesus' Wife?

Larry Hurtado ( "Jesus Wife" Fragment: A Continuing Puzzle ) has been raising questions about the Jesus' Wife Fragment, whic...

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...

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