Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Travel diary 1: Leaving Birmingham
Things have been quiet blog-wise because we have been packing up, giving away or throwing away all our earthly possessions and planning to leave Birmingham, England to move to North Carolina, USA. I had hoped to take a quick picture before leaving today to stick on the blog to mark the move, but we've accidentally packed the camera. We have a great deal to do when we arrive at the other end on Wednesday so I don't know how much time I'll have to blog, but of course the blogging machine goes with us in the hand luggage and it's my hope to get chance to continue my travel diary, if not to blog properly too. Meanwhile, it's a fond farewell to Birmingham, and the friends we've made here in what has been a happy and fruitful decade.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Nickelsburg Text Made Even Better!
This press release is from Fortress Press:
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“George Nickelsburg has been at the forefront of scholarship on Second Temple Judaism for more than thirty years. No one knows this literature better than George Nickelsburg, and no one is more judicious in evaluating the scholarly literature. This revised edition of his classic textbook will serve students well for a generation to come.”
—John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School
Nickelsburg Text Made Even Better By Extensive Updating
MINNEAPOLIS (September 16, 2005)—In the fully revised and expanded edition of Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, George W. E. Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or the later rabbinic works. This second edition thoroughly updates the text, notes, and bibliography of the first in light of recent scholarship, and augments the wealth of texts discussed with new introductions to the writings of Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, and the Greek Jewish Scriptures (the Septuagint), along with texts from the Apocrypha and Dead Sea Scrolls not discussed in the first edition. A new final chapter discusses “Texts of Disputed Provenance,” taking account of the latest scholarly discussions on ancient writings whose origin and character are debated. This new edition comes with an enormously helpful CD-ROM, including biblical citation hyperlinks to the NRSV, web links to primary documents, chapter summaries, discussion questions, and about 100 images of related sites and artifacts that help bring the texts to life.
“This well-written book provides excellent introductions to both the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, written in various languages, and the history of the era. The general overviews of the historical background and the content analysis of many literary compositions are essential for an in-depth understanding not only of this literature but also of the background of early Christianity and, in a way, of civilization as a whole. . . . This is an excellent textbook for university and college courses.”
— Emanuel Tov, J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University
"When Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah was first published in 1981 it quickly became a standard. Nickelsburg’s second edition is a thorough revision and reorganization that updates all of the bibliographies and substantially expands the treatment of Qumran documents. Lucidly written, this second edition offers a reliable and clear map of the complex and varied terrain of the literature of second Temple Judaism. Ideal for teaching purposes."
— John S Kloppenborg, Associate Professor of New Testament at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology
“George Nickelsburg has taken an authoritative text that has served us all so well for more than two decades and has performed the great service of updating and expanding it. Now the reader will find not only his judicious treatments of the latest scholarly studies but also coverage of more texts from the Qumran and other Second Temple literature. He has taken what was very good and made it even better.”
—James VanderKam, John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame
“A terrific book made even better by this extensive updating. Nickelsburg is a superb guide to this wide body of texts, their literary forms and historical contexts, and why they matter for religious history. . . . Rarely does the same book provide both a foundational introduction for students to a field of inquiry and make significant contributions to advance that field. This book does just that.”
—Margaret M. Mitchell, Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago
“The re-edition of George Nickelsburg's introduction updates and expands an extremely valuable tool for the study of Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period. Nickelsburg carefully sets a wide range of literature within the complex political and social context of the history of Israel in this period. Nickelsburg deftly introduces the primary sources and the problems of their interpretation. He does so in magisterial dialogue with an impressive array of recent scholarship, which will provide a solid foundation for any students engaging in the study of this phase of Jewish life and letters.”
—Harold Attridge, Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament and the Dean of the Divinity School at Yale University
George W. E. Nickelsburg is Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa, where he taught for more than three decades. He is the author of seventy articles and several hundred dictionary and encyclopedia entries. Among his many works are I Enoch I (Hermeneia; 2001), Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins, and, with James Vanderkam, I Enoch: A New Translation
Format: Paperback with CD-ROM, 7” x 9.25”, 450 pp
ISBN: 0800637798
Price: $38.00
Format: Hardcover with CD-ROM, 7” x 9.25”, 450 pp
ISBN: 0800637682
Price: $58.50
Publisher: Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN
To order Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, with CD-ROM please call Fortress Press at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at www.fortresspress.com. To request review copies or exam copies, or to discuss speaking engagements or interviews, please call 1-800-426-0115 ext. 234 or email toddb@augsburgfortress.org.
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“George Nickelsburg has been at the forefront of scholarship on Second Temple Judaism for more than thirty years. No one knows this literature better than George Nickelsburg, and no one is more judicious in evaluating the scholarly literature. This revised edition of his classic textbook will serve students well for a generation to come.”
—John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School
Nickelsburg Text Made Even Better By Extensive Updating
MINNEAPOLIS (September 16, 2005)—In the fully revised and expanded edition of Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, George W. E. Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature that is not part of either the Bible or the later rabbinic works. This second edition thoroughly updates the text, notes, and bibliography of the first in light of recent scholarship, and augments the wealth of texts discussed with new introductions to the writings of Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus, and the Greek Jewish Scriptures (the Septuagint), along with texts from the Apocrypha and Dead Sea Scrolls not discussed in the first edition. A new final chapter discusses “Texts of Disputed Provenance,” taking account of the latest scholarly discussions on ancient writings whose origin and character are debated. This new edition comes with an enormously helpful CD-ROM, including biblical citation hyperlinks to the NRSV, web links to primary documents, chapter summaries, discussion questions, and about 100 images of related sites and artifacts that help bring the texts to life.
“This well-written book provides excellent introductions to both the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, written in various languages, and the history of the era. The general overviews of the historical background and the content analysis of many literary compositions are essential for an in-depth understanding not only of this literature but also of the background of early Christianity and, in a way, of civilization as a whole. . . . This is an excellent textbook for university and college courses.”
— Emanuel Tov, J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University
"When Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah was first published in 1981 it quickly became a standard. Nickelsburg’s second edition is a thorough revision and reorganization that updates all of the bibliographies and substantially expands the treatment of Qumran documents. Lucidly written, this second edition offers a reliable and clear map of the complex and varied terrain of the literature of second Temple Judaism. Ideal for teaching purposes."
— John S Kloppenborg, Associate Professor of New Testament at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology
“George Nickelsburg has taken an authoritative text that has served us all so well for more than two decades and has performed the great service of updating and expanding it. Now the reader will find not only his judicious treatments of the latest scholarly studies but also coverage of more texts from the Qumran and other Second Temple literature. He has taken what was very good and made it even better.”
—James VanderKam, John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame
“A terrific book made even better by this extensive updating. Nickelsburg is a superb guide to this wide body of texts, their literary forms and historical contexts, and why they matter for religious history. . . . Rarely does the same book provide both a foundational introduction for students to a field of inquiry and make significant contributions to advance that field. This book does just that.”
—Margaret M. Mitchell, Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago
“The re-edition of George Nickelsburg's introduction updates and expands an extremely valuable tool for the study of Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period. Nickelsburg carefully sets a wide range of literature within the complex political and social context of the history of Israel in this period. Nickelsburg deftly introduces the primary sources and the problems of their interpretation. He does so in magisterial dialogue with an impressive array of recent scholarship, which will provide a solid foundation for any students engaging in the study of this phase of Jewish life and letters.”
—Harold Attridge, Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament and the Dean of the Divinity School at Yale University
George W. E. Nickelsburg is Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa, where he taught for more than three decades. He is the author of seventy articles and several hundred dictionary and encyclopedia entries. Among his many works are I Enoch I (Hermeneia; 2001), Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins, and, with James Vanderkam, I Enoch: A New Translation
Format: Paperback with CD-ROM, 7” x 9.25”, 450 pp
ISBN: 0800637798
Price: $38.00
Format: Hardcover with CD-ROM, 7” x 9.25”, 450 pp
ISBN: 0800637682
Price: $58.50
Publisher: Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN
To order Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, with CD-ROM please call Fortress Press at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at www.fortresspress.com. To request review copies or exam copies, or to discuss speaking engagements or interviews, please call 1-800-426-0115 ext. 234 or email toddb@augsburgfortress.org.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
OT in NT Seminar 2006
This notice is from Steve Moyise:
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This year's OT in NT seminar will be held at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, North Wales, from April 6-8th. The seminar begins with dinner on the 6th (Thur) and ends after lunch on the 8th (Sat). The cost will be approximately £80 full board.
If you would like to offer either a full paper (45 mins) or short paper (30 mins) please send me a title and abstract (50-100 words) before Dec 1st 2005. If you would like to book a place, please email me and I will send you a booking form, which you can send direct to the conference centre (which now takes credit cards).
Previous programmes are available on my website, if you want to see what sort or seminar it is, and links to the centre, travel details etc. can be found there. Liverpool and Manchester airport are less than an hour away.
http://www.ucc.ac.uk/theology/html/moyiseconferences.htm
It is very much a working seminar, and we encourage Postgraduates as well as established scholars to particpate. Members of the seminar have contributed to three books, and a fourth has been commissioned:
The Old Testament in the New Testament (ed Moyise), JSNTSup, Sheffield 2000
The Psalms in the New Testament (ed Moyise & Menken), T & T Clark, 2004
Isaiah in the New Testament (ed Moyise & Menken), T & T Clark (Oct 2005)
Deuteronomy in the New Testament (2007)
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This year's OT in NT seminar will be held at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, North Wales, from April 6-8th. The seminar begins with dinner on the 6th (Thur) and ends after lunch on the 8th (Sat). The cost will be approximately £80 full board.
If you would like to offer either a full paper (45 mins) or short paper (30 mins) please send me a title and abstract (50-100 words) before Dec 1st 2005. If you would like to book a place, please email me and I will send you a booking form, which you can send direct to the conference centre (which now takes credit cards).
Previous programmes are available on my website, if you want to see what sort or seminar it is, and links to the centre, travel details etc. can be found there. Liverpool and Manchester airport are less than an hour away.
http://www.ucc.ac.uk/theology/html/moyiseconferences.htm
It is very much a working seminar, and we encourage Postgraduates as well as established scholars to particpate. Members of the seminar have contributed to three books, and a fourth has been commissioned:
The Old Testament in the New Testament (ed Moyise), JSNTSup, Sheffield 2000
The Psalms in the New Testament (ed Moyise & Menken), T & T Clark, 2004
Isaiah in the New Testament (ed Moyise & Menken), T & T Clark (Oct 2005)
Deuteronomy in the New Testament (2007)
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Evaluating your department's website
On Deinde Paul Nikkel has an excellent post on Evaluating Departmental Websites, picked up from RogueClassicism and ultimately the Classics List. The posts are very much speaking my language. I frequently find myself amazed by the number of websites that don't do these basics, like putting your address, phone number and contact details upfront and prominent. I sometimes do a "click test" to determine how many clicks it takes me to find a departmental address or contact details. The ideal is 1 click, i.e it's on the front page, but often it's several clicks down the line. I think our departmental website in Birmingham satisfies most of the criteria on the list above, with the exception of RSS feeds. But I'd like to add that more important than RSS is the need for the site to be bang-up-to-date. I introduced a news section to our website and was constantly encouraging colleagues to contribute items, as well as to keep other elements of the site alive by providing information (until I stood down from running the site just over a year ago). The difficulty is that you have to be a real bully to get the information, and even then it's still like getting blood from a stone. I was frequently amazed by how far colleagues were uninterested in providing information on themselves, their teaching, their research projects and so on. What that means is that given academics' inertia, one requires an enthusiast who will write material for the apathetes, and there are not many departments that have such enthusiasts.
Google Blog Search
Thanks to Zeth Green for noting this new resource from Google:
Google Blog Search
It searches by date as well as relevance, so there is a strong recency factor on anything you search for. Could be useful. Take one current topic, for example, the term "biblioblogs" -- you get a bunch of recent, relevant posts.
Google Blog Search
It searches by date as well as relevance, so there is a strong recency factor on anything you search for. Could be useful. Take one current topic, for example, the term "biblioblogs" -- you get a bunch of recent, relevant posts.
What is a biblioblog?
On Novum Testamentum blog Brandon Wason asks "What is a biblioblog?". On the question of origins, he wonders whether it comes from Jim Davila or Stephen Carlson. The term in fact came from David Meadows of RogueClassicism and was for a long time resisted by bibliobloggers who were concerned that it might be confused with bibliography based blogs. Indeed several alternatives were considered, but none were quite as neat as Biblioblog, which ultimately prevailed.
Brandon suggests a definition he has worked on with Jim West:
Brandon suggests a definition he has worked on with Jim West:
A biblioblog is a weblog that focuses primarily on Biblical Literature, related fields, and occassionally [sic] contemporary events. It's [sic] purpose is to offer news, opinion, and conversation for those interested in the Biblical text. Biblioblogs occassionally refer to personal matter, but that is not the primary focus.I would say that one can state it much more simply. They are:
Blogs which have a primary focus on academic Biblical Studies.The "primary" implicitly makes clear that all the other stuff mentioned in the definition above (contemporary events personal matter, etc.) may be there to a lesser or greater degree in different blogs. I, for example, tend to avoid talking about contemporary events unless they are related in some way to academic New Testament studies, however much I might be tempted, while others speak at greater length about them. It's a question of style and personal preference and overall aim. I would also add that the word "academic" is especially important -- it makes clear that the subject matter is written by academics for academics and those who enjoy reading academic material. In other words, there is a focus on critical Biblical scholarship.
Google Scholar Advanced Search
TJ Sondermann notes On Google Scholar that "scope" has been added to the Advanced Search page on Google Scholar:
Google Scholar Advanced Search
As Sondermann notes, you get a feel for how science-biased Google Scholar is, but the chance to limit the searches at least to "Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities" is an asset. And Google Scholar is getting steadily more useful, it seems, each time one tries it.
Google Scholar Advanced Search
As Sondermann notes, you get a feel for how science-biased Google Scholar is, but the chance to limit the searches at least to "Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities" is an asset. And Google Scholar is getting steadily more useful, it seems, each time one tries it.
Dave Black on-line
On Biblaridion, Bryan mentions Dave Black Online, a site I have visited before but tend to forget to go back to because of its lack of RSS feed. But it's nice to see a "Happy blogiversary" to me a couple of weeks ago (no permalink), especially as I'll be headed in that direction (North Carolina) before long. So any chance of an RSS feed, Dave, and then I can read your blog every day, and add it to my blogroll?
Australian Biblical Review Book Reviews
As promised, here are those Book Reviews from the Australian Biblical Review, the ones that pertain to the NT:
Brevard S. Childs
The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture
Mark O'Brien
Bruce Chilton
Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography
Nigel Watson
Frances Taylor Gench
Back to the Well: Women’s Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels
Elizabeth Dowling
Murray J. Harris
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Nigel Watson
David Instone-Brewer
Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context
Colin G. Kruse
William Loader
Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition
Nigel Watson
Judith McKinlay
Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus
Mark G. Brett
Donald P. Senior and Daniel J. Harrington
1 Peter, Jude and 2 Peter
Darryl W. Palmer
Bruce W. Winter
Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women in the Pauline Communities
Darryl W. Palmer
Ben Witherington III and Darlene Hyatt
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary
Colin G. Kruse
Brevard S. Childs
The Struggle to Understand Isaiah as Christian Scripture
Mark O'Brien
Bruce Chilton
Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography
Nigel Watson
Frances Taylor Gench
Back to the Well: Women’s Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels
Elizabeth Dowling
Murray J. Harris
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Nigel Watson
David Instone-Brewer
Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context
Colin G. Kruse
William Loader
Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition
Nigel Watson
Judith McKinlay
Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus
Mark G. Brett
Donald P. Senior and Daniel J. Harrington
1 Peter, Jude and 2 Peter
Darryl W. Palmer
Bruce W. Winter
Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women in the Pauline Communities
Darryl W. Palmer
Ben Witherington III and Darlene Hyatt
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary
Colin G. Kruse
Australian Biblical Review latest
The latest edition of the Australian Biblical Review (Volume 53, 2005) will be sent out to subscribers in October, and the Table of Contents is now available (see news):
Brendan Byrne, "Paul and the Diaspora: Re-imagining Church with the Aid of Rahner and Harink": 1–12
Megan Warner, "Genesis 20–22:19: Abraham’s Test of Allegiance Wisdom as Saviour": 13–30
Robert Crotty, "The Literary Structure of the Binding of Isaac in Genesis 22": 31–41
Beverly Roberts Gaventa, "God Handed Them Over: Reading Romans 1:18–32 Apocalyptically": 42–53
Michael Trainor, "The Cosmic Christology of Colossians 1:15–20 in the Light of Contemporary Ecological Issues": 54–69
James S. McLaren, "The Census in Judea": 70–75
Book Reviews 76–96
As far as I am aware, there is no electronic availability for the journal as a whole, even for subscribers and institutional subscribers, but the Book Reviews are on-line in full text, and there are several of interest. I'll list those separately in due course.
Update (Thursday, 9.05): thanks to Brian Incigneri for getting in touch and clarifying an important detail -- I missed the news page which makes clear that the journal is to be sent out to subscribers in October; it is not available yet. I have adjusted the above entry accordingly.
Brendan Byrne, "Paul and the Diaspora: Re-imagining Church with the Aid of Rahner and Harink": 1–12
Megan Warner, "Genesis 20–22:19: Abraham’s Test of Allegiance Wisdom as Saviour": 13–30
Robert Crotty, "The Literary Structure of the Binding of Isaac in Genesis 22": 31–41
Beverly Roberts Gaventa, "God Handed Them Over: Reading Romans 1:18–32 Apocalyptically": 42–53
Michael Trainor, "The Cosmic Christology of Colossians 1:15–20 in the Light of Contemporary Ecological Issues": 54–69
James S. McLaren, "The Census in Judea": 70–75
Book Reviews 76–96
As far as I am aware, there is no electronic availability for the journal as a whole, even for subscribers and institutional subscribers, but the Book Reviews are on-line in full text, and there are several of interest. I'll list those separately in due course.
Update (Thursday, 9.05): thanks to Brian Incigneri for getting in touch and clarifying an important detail -- I missed the news page which makes clear that the journal is to be sent out to subscribers in October; it is not available yet. I have adjusted the above entry accordingly.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
New University of Birmingham Brand and Website
For some time, the University of Birmingham have been working on a new "brand" and have spent thousands on its new look, which can be seen on posters, on the back of buses, in university prospectuses and print publications and now finally also on its website:
University of Birmingham
The essential idea of the new brand is to have a large "U" and a large "B" with a kind of facing square bracket effect around a choice picture and / or quotation. It is probably not overstating it to say that some are unenthusiastic about the new brand, especially in view of the huge amount invested in it.
My own feeling is that it does no harm to rework old looks, to think in fresh ways about how to market the university, and that in the current competitive climate in UK higher education, it is necessary to look at ways of attracting new students and investors by giving the impression of dynamism and enthusiasm. Having said that, my first impressions of the brand were mixed, and several months later they remain mixed. The idea of choice quotations and immediacy of impact work quite well, but other aspects of the brand are problematic. In particular, the general decision to drop the University shield, the main feature of the old brand, has left websites and print documents looking a little naked. The main page is allowed the luxury of a redesigned shield, but all other pages (e.g. here) have a naked top left with shield absent.
A related problem is the amount of white space on the new template, especially across the top of every page and on the right hand side. The pages look busy and are well populated with varieties of navigational strategies, yet every page has a huge excess of white space. I would raise a further question about the place of the "U" and the "B" on all the main pages -- it takes up so much space given the large header area that one only gets to the content at the bottom of each page. Moreover, the editable area on each page is very narrow and leads to pages in which only a fraction of the page is actually used for content. I am wary of a web design that results in 75 per cent of the page reserved for headers and navigational strategies, and 25 per cent for content.
Some encouraging features include a "Print/document view" on every page, and sensible, concise contact information at the bottom of every page -- it is remarkable how many university websites forget to include that -- along with some aspirations about accessibility, also good to see.
I am guessing that it will be some time before the departmental websites will get the full treatment. If I were still working on my own department's website, my hope would be that they have designed their new templates sensibly enough to be make the transition straightforward and in may cases automatic.
University of Birmingham
The essential idea of the new brand is to have a large "U" and a large "B" with a kind of facing square bracket effect around a choice picture and / or quotation. It is probably not overstating it to say that some are unenthusiastic about the new brand, especially in view of the huge amount invested in it.
My own feeling is that it does no harm to rework old looks, to think in fresh ways about how to market the university, and that in the current competitive climate in UK higher education, it is necessary to look at ways of attracting new students and investors by giving the impression of dynamism and enthusiasm. Having said that, my first impressions of the brand were mixed, and several months later they remain mixed. The idea of choice quotations and immediacy of impact work quite well, but other aspects of the brand are problematic. In particular, the general decision to drop the University shield, the main feature of the old brand, has left websites and print documents looking a little naked. The main page is allowed the luxury of a redesigned shield, but all other pages (e.g. here) have a naked top left with shield absent.
A related problem is the amount of white space on the new template, especially across the top of every page and on the right hand side. The pages look busy and are well populated with varieties of navigational strategies, yet every page has a huge excess of white space. I would raise a further question about the place of the "U" and the "B" on all the main pages -- it takes up so much space given the large header area that one only gets to the content at the bottom of each page. Moreover, the editable area on each page is very narrow and leads to pages in which only a fraction of the page is actually used for content. I am wary of a web design that results in 75 per cent of the page reserved for headers and navigational strategies, and 25 per cent for content.
Some encouraging features include a "Print/document view" on every page, and sensible, concise contact information at the bottom of every page -- it is remarkable how many university websites forget to include that -- along with some aspirations about accessibility, also good to see.
I am guessing that it will be some time before the departmental websites will get the full treatment. If I were still working on my own department's website, my hope would be that they have designed their new templates sensibly enough to be make the transition straightforward and in may cases automatic.
June 17 RBL
In comments, Tommy notes that I forgot to post the 17 June Review of Biblical Literature newsletter as it pertained to the NT, for which thanks and here it is to fill the gap:
Beale, G.K.
The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God
Reviewed by Ron Fay
Brosend, William F. II
James and Jude
Reviewed by Tommy Wasserman
Denton, Donald L.
Historiography and Hermeneutics in Jesus Studies: An Examination of the Work of John Dominic Crossan and Ben F. Meyer
Reviewed by Michael Licona
Edgar, David Hutchinson
Has God Not Chosen the Poor?: The Social Setting of the Epistle of James
Reviewed by Matthias Konradt
Hartin, Patrick J.
A Spirituality of Perfection: Faith in Action in the Letter of James
Reviewed by Matthias Konradt
Jackson-McCabe, Matt A.
Logos and Law in the Letter of James: The Law of Nature, the Law of Moses and the Law of Freedom
Reviewed by Matthias Konradt
Linafelt, Tod, ed.
A Shadow of Glory: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust
Reviewed by Jane Schaberg
Llewelyn, S. R., ed.
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1986-87
Reviewed by Paul Elbert
Oldenhage, Tania
Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust
Reviewed by Luise Schottroff
Reichert, Angelika
Der Römerbrief als Gratwanderung: Eine Untersuchung zur Abfassungsproblematik
Reviewed by Heike Omerzu
Rhoads, David
Reading Mark, Engaging the Gospel
Reviewed by Ira Driggers
Klutz, Todd, ed.
Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon
Reviewed by René Bloch
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. and Wendy E. S. North, eds.
Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism
Reviewed by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis
Beale, G.K.
The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God
Reviewed by Ron Fay
Brosend, William F. II
James and Jude
Reviewed by Tommy Wasserman
Denton, Donald L.
Historiography and Hermeneutics in Jesus Studies: An Examination of the Work of John Dominic Crossan and Ben F. Meyer
Reviewed by Michael Licona
Edgar, David Hutchinson
Has God Not Chosen the Poor?: The Social Setting of the Epistle of James
Reviewed by Matthias Konradt
Hartin, Patrick J.
A Spirituality of Perfection: Faith in Action in the Letter of James
Reviewed by Matthias Konradt
Jackson-McCabe, Matt A.
Logos and Law in the Letter of James: The Law of Nature, the Law of Moses and the Law of Freedom
Reviewed by Matthias Konradt
Linafelt, Tod, ed.
A Shadow of Glory: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust
Reviewed by Jane Schaberg
Llewelyn, S. R., ed.
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1986-87
Reviewed by Paul Elbert
Oldenhage, Tania
Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust
Reviewed by Luise Schottroff
Reichert, Angelika
Der Römerbrief als Gratwanderung: Eine Untersuchung zur Abfassungsproblematik
Reviewed by Heike Omerzu
Rhoads, David
Reading Mark, Engaging the Gospel
Reviewed by Ira Driggers
Klutz, Todd, ed.
Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon
Reviewed by René Bloch
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. and Wendy E. S. North, eds.
Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism
Reviewed by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis
Visa and travel latest
I often get queries about the latest on our move to North Carolina, and others who assume we are already there and send kind emails asking "What's the weather like in North Carolina?"; "Wish we were there too" etc. I have been loathe to post continual updates here, especially when there has been little to say other than "Still waiting", but now I do have a little more at last and so to celebrate it, a short narrative of the latest.
We were given an appointment for an interview at the US consulate in London on Friday and I spent much of last week preparing the fresh paperwork needed for that, driving to Worcester to get the necessary 2" by 2" visa photographs of the family, repeatedly phoning the consulate at £1.30 a minute to ask for advice and so on. We drove to Peterborough on Thursday so that my mother-in-law could look after the children while we took the train to London on Friday. Because the consulate had mistakenly only sent us three payment forms, we had to arrive in Grosvenor Square two hours early to pick up a fourth. We went to a bank in Park Lane to pay the £240 fee, and returned to the consulate to begin our long wait for our interview. Knowing that it would be a long wait, I had my little Test Match Special radio with me but alas, it was taken off me at the door. So I read Terence Mournet's Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency and slept instead. After three hours, we were seen by someone who looked a bit like John McEnroe, and he informed us that our visas had been approved and our passports would be returned to us this week. We retired to a pub around the corner to celebrate and the beer tasted particularly good.
Term began over two weeks ago at Duke, but now I am confident that I should be able to be there before mid term. Before travelling, we have one or two farewell dos still to go. I had a nice send off from work last Wednesday, along with my colleague Philip Seddon who is also leaving. It was a strange mixture of hellos and goodbyes, with Philip Burton having arrived to take up his new post in Birmingham facilitated by the departure of Philip Seddon and me, and Michael Pahl (of Stuff of Earth fame) arriving from Candada for a nine month stay in Birmingham just the evening before. Like Michael Strickland before him, Michael Pahl is an Anglo-file, too and I am sorry that this Americano-phile only overlaps with him for this short period.
We were given an appointment for an interview at the US consulate in London on Friday and I spent much of last week preparing the fresh paperwork needed for that, driving to Worcester to get the necessary 2" by 2" visa photographs of the family, repeatedly phoning the consulate at £1.30 a minute to ask for advice and so on. We drove to Peterborough on Thursday so that my mother-in-law could look after the children while we took the train to London on Friday. Because the consulate had mistakenly only sent us three payment forms, we had to arrive in Grosvenor Square two hours early to pick up a fourth. We went to a bank in Park Lane to pay the £240 fee, and returned to the consulate to begin our long wait for our interview. Knowing that it would be a long wait, I had my little Test Match Special radio with me but alas, it was taken off me at the door. So I read Terence Mournet's Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency and slept instead. After three hours, we were seen by someone who looked a bit like John McEnroe, and he informed us that our visas had been approved and our passports would be returned to us this week. We retired to a pub around the corner to celebrate and the beer tasted particularly good.
Term began over two weeks ago at Duke, but now I am confident that I should be able to be there before mid term. Before travelling, we have one or two farewell dos still to go. I had a nice send off from work last Wednesday, along with my colleague Philip Seddon who is also leaving. It was a strange mixture of hellos and goodbyes, with Philip Burton having arrived to take up his new post in Birmingham facilitated by the departure of Philip Seddon and me, and Michael Pahl (of Stuff of Earth fame) arriving from Candada for a nine month stay in Birmingham just the evening before. Like Michael Strickland before him, Michael Pahl is an Anglo-file, too and I am sorry that this Americano-phile only overlaps with him for this short period.
Why post the RBL newsletter?
Ken Ristau asks:
So why do so many bibliobloggers post the RBL Reviews Newsletter, or even portions of it, when we all get the same email? Are there many people who are interested in those reviews who don't subscribe to the newsletter?It's a question that comes up from time to time, so I will repeat what I have written before (June 28 2005):
In the Macintosh Biblioblog Joe Weaks comments "If you frequent Mark Goodacre's blog, you've observed his personal obsession with posting the review notices in web form". "Personal obsession" might be a little strong, but I do like to post the RBL links relevant to the NT here and for a couple of reasons: (1) RBL themselves still only have an email updates service and not a web updated service, so -- unless I am wrong -- you cannot go to the Review of Biblical Literature website and see what has been posted recently. In that respect it is unlike a standard print journal. You can't browse, unless of course you go to the Search the Post link and write in to "Date Review Published". (2) Quite some time ago, I suggested dropping the regular updates here, as others like Jim Davila did at the same time, but when I suggested this, several got in touch to ask me to continue to do it. (3) I like to build up the available data for searching on the NT Gateway, and to be comprehensive on the NT titles in RBL ensures that I am not leaving out potential gems that may be of interest to others.Under (3), I'd like to try to nuance the point a little further. Let us say that you wanted to search on the NT Gateway under "J. D. G. Dunn", it would bring up lots of material on the site including blog entries in which there are links to reviews of his work mentioned under the RBL entries. I'd add a fourth point too, that I find myself far more likely to click on a link in a blog or a web page than in an email.
Review of Biblical Literature latest
Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading (and see my next post for "Why do you insist on posting these?"):
Dunn, James D. G.
A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed
Reviewed by Petr Pokorny
Loader, William
The Septuagint, Sexuality, and the New Testament: Case Studies on the Impact of the LXX in Philo and the New Testament
Reviewed by Mark Mcentire
Miller, Susan
Women in Mark's Gospel
Reviewed by Betsy Bauman-Martin
Pattemore, Stephen
The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, Structure and Exegesis
Reviewed by David Barr
Rius-Camps, Josep and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition Volume 1: Acts 1.1-5.42: Jerusalem
Reviewed by Ruben Dupertuis
Dunn, James D. G.
A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed
Reviewed by Petr Pokorny
Loader, William
The Septuagint, Sexuality, and the New Testament: Case Studies on the Impact of the LXX in Philo and the New Testament
Reviewed by Mark Mcentire
Miller, Susan
Women in Mark's Gospel
Reviewed by Betsy Bauman-Martin
Pattemore, Stephen
The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, Structure and Exegesis
Reviewed by David Barr
Rius-Camps, Josep and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition Volume 1: Acts 1.1-5.42: Jerusalem
Reviewed by Ruben Dupertuis
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Days away from the blogging machine
I'll be away from blogging for a few days (and not just to watch England trying to regain the Ashes) but hope to return to it next week when I can find a moment.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
B-Greek Firefox Plug-in
On b-greek, Bob Firth (see Archive searching for Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape) has come up with a nice b-greek archive plug-in for Firefox. It's located here and I've downloaded it and it's working very well:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=b-greek&submitform=Find+search+plugins
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=b-greek&submitform=Find+search+plugins
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Monday, September 05, 2005
News from Bill Warren
Bill Warren has the following news update (see further New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary), initially sent to my colleague David Parker last Thursday 1 September, and reproduced with permission:
Parts of the seminary in the back with student apartments were under as much as 18 feet of water, but the front part of campus had much less. All of those from the seminary are safe as far as we know due to an early decision at the school to evacuate everyone. Likely our semester is gone with hopes for opening in Jan., but that is not certain at this time (at least not certain for the New Orleans setting, although we may find a temporary home to use until next Aug.). The Center is okay along with the materials and work and, most important, the people working there.And I received this follow-up earlier this evening:
On our house, we were almost under the eye of the hurricane just north of Bay St. Louis. Besides a family of three that were seen disappearing in the surge waters and have not been found (presumed dead), four more church related people are missing from the flooded area and may not have survived. Right now as important as the house may be, needless to say it is the least of our concerns. We have at least 15 church families without homes and that may increase. Hopefully we won't be among them, but at least we got out. People are living in the church and likely will be there for some time. We hope to travel back tomorrow to take supplies and see about the house.
Back to New Orleans, David Brown (whom you may recall from both the CNTTS and Birmingham the last two conferences) and his wife lived near the area of the broken levee and have lost everything including the church where he served, but they got out and are safe. Earl Kellett is already making plans to live for several months at least in the state of Georgia since their home was destroyed almost totally by the flooding.
Again, we appreciate your prayers and concern.
Life is hectic and ministry is pressing at the moment. We are sheltering the homeless at the church, feeding people, distributing food, clothing, and supplies, helping at homes, etc. Our home is relatively okay, with ten trees on it and some water damage, outside damage, etc., but far better than most. We have come for more supplies here in FL today and will return tonight. Seminary is hoping to resume a semblance of classes,etc. starting in Oct. with a variety of formats based in Atlanta and some other extension sites. If the looters did not get to the Center for NT Textual Studies, we remained above the water in New Orleans. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
Review of Biblical Literature latest
The latest reviews from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the New Testament heading:
Arav, Rami and Richard A. Freund, eds.
Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee, vol. 3
Reviewed by Mark Fairchild
Elliott, J. K., ed.
The Collected Biblical Writings of T. C. Skeat
Reviewed by Robert Kraft
Garrow, Alan J. P.
The Gospel of Matthew's Dependence on the Didache
Reviewed by James Sweeney
Gaventa, Beverly Roberts and Patrick D. Miller, eds.
The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God: Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel
Reviewed by Kelly Iverson
Goodacre, Mark and Nicholas Perrin, eds.
Questioning Q: A Multidimensional Critique
Reviewed by Joseph Verheyden
Long, Fredrick J.
Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians
Reviewed by Moises Silva
Marshall, I. Howard
New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel
Reviewed by Edward Klinkv
Økland, Jorunn
Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space
Reviewed by Davina Lopez
Økland, Jorunn
Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space
Reviewed by Joseph Marchal
Nice to see a second review already for Questioning Q, and I think I quite like being described as "the indefatigable Mark Goodacre".
Arav, Rami and Richard A. Freund, eds.
Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee, vol. 3
Reviewed by Mark Fairchild
Elliott, J. K., ed.
The Collected Biblical Writings of T. C. Skeat
Reviewed by Robert Kraft
Garrow, Alan J. P.
The Gospel of Matthew's Dependence on the Didache
Reviewed by James Sweeney
Gaventa, Beverly Roberts and Patrick D. Miller, eds.
The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God: Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel
Reviewed by Kelly Iverson
Goodacre, Mark and Nicholas Perrin, eds.
Questioning Q: A Multidimensional Critique
Reviewed by Joseph Verheyden
Long, Fredrick J.
Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians
Reviewed by Moises Silva
Marshall, I. Howard
New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel
Reviewed by Edward Klinkv
Økland, Jorunn
Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space
Reviewed by Davina Lopez
Økland, Jorunn
Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space
Reviewed by Joseph Marchal
Nice to see a second review already for Questioning Q, and I think I quite like being described as "the indefatigable Mark Goodacre".
Saturday, September 03, 2005
BNTC, Day 3
Saturday -- the last day of the British New Testament Conference at Liverpool Hope University College. After a cooked breakfast, the third and final meeting of the seminars. I was in the Synoptics Seminar and we had two papers, first Seamus O'Connell on "Fourfold Repetion in the Gospel of Mark". Paul Foster asked the key question, pointing out that a good number of Seamus's fourfold repetitions depended on his questionable decisions about pericope divisions, and with variation in the units, they became five-fold (and so on). I questioned his use of the Delbert Burkett argument on the "omission" of "benign" redactional features of Mark in Matthew and Luke, on which I'll be writing my review of Burkett's book soon for JTS.
Ken Olson, a PhD student at the University of Birmingham, but shortly to move to Duke University, gave the second paper on the Temple-mockery on the cross in Mark, which he uses towards an argument for a post-70 date for Mark, and I find it pretty convincing and hope that Ken will get it published soon.
After the seminars, coffee. After coffee, the postponed Business Meeting and then the final main paper, Darrell Hannah on the Fourfold Canon in the Epistula Apostolorum. It was another educational paper for me, because I was largely ignorant of the the text at the beginning. Darrell argued that the text witnesses to the existence of the fourfold Gospel canon as early as the 140s. As usual, though, I did enjoy a short nap in the middle of the paper, and no doubt missed some good stuff.
It was then just lunch and departure. As ever, there was a lot of good feeling. It's such a friendly conference. Ursula Leahy, who did the lion's share of the local organisation, was warmly thanked for her efficiency and good humour, and was presented with flowers and wine by Kenneth Newport.
The conference was also a little sad for me as the last I'll be able to get to, at least for the foreseeable future, because of my forthcoming move to the USA. And I had so many expressions of good will and fond farewells that it made me much more conscious of that fact than I might otherwise have been.
One concluding comment. When Michael Goulder used to be well enough to attend the conference regularly, he would always comment on the presence or absence of what he called the "top brass", i.e. the professors in the discipline. Alas, this year we were short on the top brass. Morna Hooker (president) was there, and John Riches (former president); Christopher Rowland was giving a paper, and Andrew Lincoln and Loveday Alexander were there too, but otherwise, the senior scholars were largely absent. I know Michael would have commented.
Ken Olson, a PhD student at the University of Birmingham, but shortly to move to Duke University, gave the second paper on the Temple-mockery on the cross in Mark, which he uses towards an argument for a post-70 date for Mark, and I find it pretty convincing and hope that Ken will get it published soon.
After the seminars, coffee. After coffee, the postponed Business Meeting and then the final main paper, Darrell Hannah on the Fourfold Canon in the Epistula Apostolorum. It was another educational paper for me, because I was largely ignorant of the the text at the beginning. Darrell argued that the text witnesses to the existence of the fourfold Gospel canon as early as the 140s. As usual, though, I did enjoy a short nap in the middle of the paper, and no doubt missed some good stuff.
It was then just lunch and departure. As ever, there was a lot of good feeling. It's such a friendly conference. Ursula Leahy, who did the lion's share of the local organisation, was warmly thanked for her efficiency and good humour, and was presented with flowers and wine by Kenneth Newport.
The conference was also a little sad for me as the last I'll be able to get to, at least for the foreseeable future, because of my forthcoming move to the USA. And I had so many expressions of good will and fond farewells that it made me much more conscious of that fact than I might otherwise have been.
One concluding comment. When Michael Goulder used to be well enough to attend the conference regularly, he would always comment on the presence or absence of what he called the "top brass", i.e. the professors in the discipline. Alas, this year we were short on the top brass. Morna Hooker (president) was there, and John Riches (former president); Christopher Rowland was giving a paper, and Andrew Lincoln and Loveday Alexander were there too, but otherwise, the senior scholars were largely absent. I know Michael would have commented.
BNTC, Day 2, evening
One of things that made the conference this year particularly enjoyable for me was that it was my first as an everyday punter for some time. For the previous three years, I had been secretary and treasurer of the society (I'm still webmaster), and for one of those also the host in Birmingham. I had forgotten how enjoyable it was just to go along and enjoy listening to papers and talking to old friends without having to worry about the big organisational things.
Friday evening was the conference dinner. A good meal (salmon) with more wine. As so often, the conference dinner lasted too long and the timetable was all messed up, so the Business Meeting was postponed to the Saturday morning, and we went straight into the main paper, Christopher Rowland on William Blake and the New Testament. It was a hugely enjoyable presentation, and for someone like me most educational too. It was fully illustrated, and it was a pleasure to have a presentation (hobby-horse now mounted) speaking extemp, and not reading a script.
Once again, after the main paper, much of the conference retired to the Chaplaincy for a nice drink or two and this time there were some real ales too and for some, a late night.
Friday evening was the conference dinner. A good meal (salmon) with more wine. As so often, the conference dinner lasted too long and the timetable was all messed up, so the Business Meeting was postponed to the Saturday morning, and we went straight into the main paper, Christopher Rowland on William Blake and the New Testament. It was a hugely enjoyable presentation, and for someone like me most educational too. It was fully illustrated, and it was a pleasure to have a presentation (hobby-horse now mounted) speaking extemp, and not reading a script.
Once again, after the main paper, much of the conference retired to the Chaplaincy for a nice drink or two and this time there were some real ales too and for some, a late night.
BNTC: Day 2, afternoon
Friday afternoon is designated free time, but for many of us that is the time when we get to pre-arranged meetings to move forward on different projects. After tea, the Simultaneous Short Papers. Of the three on offer, there's no question that David Horrell's was the most popular. He practically filled the main lecture theatre and not without reason -- it was an excellent paper. I think that when Sean the Baptist and I walked in at 4, we were the first there and wondered why the room was so empty. But it took it 20 minutes to fill and David handled the steady stream, coming in for at least the first half of his paper, with great humour, and had fresh starts, false starts, summaries, summaries of the summaries and so on. The gist of his paper was to look at Paul's letters in the light of Bauckham et al's Gospels for All Christians, questioning the very descriptor "Pauline church", patiently taking us through the Pauline correspondence in sequence and making a case that each church is not accurately described or identified by using the term "Pauline". It was excellent stuff, with a good question session, and I am very much looking forward to seeing it in print. I told David today (Saturday) that I thought it was the highlight of the conference.
BNTC: Day 2, morning
The accommodation at Liverpool Hope was in two adjacent buildings, one called Wesley and the other called Angela. Wesley was so new that we were the first people to sleep in the rooms. Indeed, we woke up each morning to the sounds of the builders getting to work on the continuing effort to get these new halls ready for the students' imminent arrival. (Just after the new toilet brushes had been delivered outside each door, I overheard one of the cleaners tut-tutting that she could not believe that they had allowed a conference in when the rooms weren't ready!). There were a few things one might have missed, like a cup at the sink, or a mirror, or somewhere to make a cup of coffee, but I don't think it would be reasonable to allow such things to colour one's opinion of a splendidly organized conference, on which more anon.
There was a good cooked breakfast, and the first seminar meetings were after that, 9.15-10.45 and 11.15-12.45, with coffee in between. There are ten seminars and members are discouraged from "seminar hopping", i.e. they are supposed to stay in one seminar for the two days of the conference. As often, I attended the Synoptics Seminar, ably chaired by Helen Bond from Edinburgh. Paper 1 was an excellent piece by society secretary Bridget Gilfillan Upton on Mark 16, looking at how our reading of Mark's Gospel as a whole is impacted by reading of the different endings of Mark. There was a lot of juicy discussion -- a good session.
Unfortunately, this is where my own circumstances began to impinge on my attendance at and appreciation of the conference -- I had to leave that seminar early, and miss all of the next one because of major movements, which I will not bore you with, connected with the collapse of our house sale in Birmingham and the arrival of our paperwork for our visas to the USA. But after most of the morning on the mobile phone and the internet, I got a lot done, and was still able to find time for lunch.
There was a good cooked breakfast, and the first seminar meetings were after that, 9.15-10.45 and 11.15-12.45, with coffee in between. There are ten seminars and members are discouraged from "seminar hopping", i.e. they are supposed to stay in one seminar for the two days of the conference. As often, I attended the Synoptics Seminar, ably chaired by Helen Bond from Edinburgh. Paper 1 was an excellent piece by society secretary Bridget Gilfillan Upton on Mark 16, looking at how our reading of Mark's Gospel as a whole is impacted by reading of the different endings of Mark. There was a lot of juicy discussion -- a good session.
Unfortunately, this is where my own circumstances began to impinge on my attendance at and appreciation of the conference -- I had to leave that seminar early, and miss all of the next one because of major movements, which I will not bore you with, connected with the collapse of our house sale in Birmingham and the arrival of our paperwork for our visas to the USA. But after most of the morning on the mobile phone and the internet, I got a lot done, and was still able to find time for lunch.
BNTC: Day 1
This year's British New Testament Conference began on Thursday evening with a drinks reception and a welcome from Liverpool Hope University College, who were our hosts. As often at the conference, the drinks were all situated by the book display, an ideal arrangement. After a good dinner, with generous amounts of wine on offer, we had the first main paper from Richard Burridge, Dean of King's College, London. His topic was "A Biographical Approach to New Testament Ethics", a paper that interacted with other recent studies on New Testament ethics, including those of Richard Hays and David Horrell and made suggestions, among other things, for a Jesus-based, Christological, biographical foundation for New Testament ethics. Richard had a decent powerpoint presentation and a hand-out and although I had my customary doze, it was pretty straightforward to follow, and stimulated lots of useful questions, in spite of the healthy amounts of wine imbibed.
One of the most remarkable things about this conference was the substitute for the traditional bar. Because Liverpool Hope were not able to provide a bar in the Students' Union, Kenneth Newport put on a free drinks do in the Chaplaincy each evening, and this generated a lot of good feeling, and some very enjoyable conversations. As several people remarked, it is the post-paper socialising that remians the heart of the conference. I'm just hoping that Kenneth's hospitality did not go unrewarded. On Friday evening, Richard Burridge made a little announcement reminding the punters to put a little donation in to help cover these expenses.
One of the most remarkable things about this conference was the substitute for the traditional bar. Because Liverpool Hope were not able to provide a bar in the Students' Union, Kenneth Newport put on a free drinks do in the Chaplaincy each evening, and this generated a lot of good feeling, and some very enjoyable conversations. As several people remarked, it is the post-paper socialising that remians the heart of the conference. I'm just hoping that Kenneth's hospitality did not go unrewarded. On Friday evening, Richard Burridge made a little announcement reminding the punters to put a little donation in to help cover these expenses.
Happy blogiversary to me
The NT Gateway Weblog is now two years old. It began on 2 September 2003. 1786 posts on and I'm still enjoying blogging. Thanks for reading and supporting the blog.
Home again
Back from the BNTC now and ready to report in due course. One of those great train journeys back where it seemed like half the people on the train were on their way back from the conference. All the people one has already said goodbye to multiple times one then says goodbye to that one last time.
British New Testament Conference Over
The British New Testament Conference has now finished and I'm about to catch my taxi back. Alas, no wireless access or other internet access in the rooms so I have not been able to get my blogging machine into action. But there are a couple of computers in the Refectory and I've seen other bloggers in action here so look forward to finding out what they have been sharing. When I've managed to steal time at these machines, I have been busy on final preparations for our move to the USA, which now looks like it will be in just over a fortnight or so. I had a lot to do by email and mobile phone and begin to wonder if it had been a wise decision to come along, but I don't regret it -- it's been a good conference and, as usual, I have met lots of old and new friends and heard a mixture of the great and not so great papers. When I get back, I'll write a full report.
Update (Tuesday, 01.16): most enjoyable post from Rick Brannan on Ricoblog on a fragmentary remain of the above post, discovered and analyzed in the distant future.
Update (Tuesday, 01.16): most enjoyable post from Rick Brannan on Ricoblog on a fragmentary remain of the above post, discovered and analyzed in the distant future.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
British New Testament Conference starts today
The British New Testament Conference starts today and is hosted this year by Liverpool Hope University. I will be going along and will take my blogging machine with me. I doubt that there will be any wireless or other internet access -- I've not known it thus far with any of the BNTC locations -- but you never know. But at some point, expect some reports. And I look forward to seeing some of you there.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
I had the pleasure of meeting Bill Warren and several of his students in Biblical Textual Criticism from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary at the Birmingham Colloquium in April. I have been wondering about them over the last few days given the devastation wrought by Hurrican Katrina. The seminary does have a Hurricane Katrina Update, which gives some idea of the extent of the devastation, as they attempt to set up temporary offices elsewhere, looking to locate members of the faculty. I hope all is well with them; they too are in our thoughts and prayers.
Update (1.11): more here: BREAKING NEWS: NOBTS president says 'damage unknown'; moves offices to Ga.
Update (Monday, 5 September, 13.58): Jim West has more on Biblical Theology. I also heard via my colleague David Parker that Bill Warren and his colleagues are all safe and well, though naturally their lives are in unpheaval.
Update (1.11): more here: BREAKING NEWS: NOBTS president says 'damage unknown'; moves offices to Ga.
Update (Monday, 5 September, 13.58): Jim West has more on Biblical Theology. I also heard via my colleague David Parker that Bill Warren and his colleagues are all safe and well, though naturally their lives are in unpheaval.
D is for Danove
Thanks also to Ted Blakley for this one:
Paul Danove
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, U.S.A.
I've added it to Scholars: D but haven't had time to refresh that page overall.
Paul Danove
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, U.S.A.
I've added it to Scholars: D but haven't had time to refresh that page overall.
T is for Thompson
Thanks to Ted Blakley for this one, now on Scholars: T
Marianne Meye Thompson
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
There are extensive course materials available on a variety of subjects, especially the Gospels.
Marianne Meye Thompson
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
There are extensive course materials available on a variety of subjects, especially the Gospels.
M is for McKnight
I've now refreshed the Scholars: M page on the NT Gateway, adding Scot McKnight's page, changing URLs to several others (usual complaint: none of them had set up automatic forwards), and deleting Bruce Malina's page, which has gone password-protected, and deleting David Mealand (gone) and David Mealand (gone).
Update (Thursday, 00.57): And thanks to Scot McKnight for his kind mention in his blog Jesus Creed.
Update (Thursday, 00.57): And thanks to Scot McKnight for his kind mention in his blog Jesus Creed.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Earlychurch.org.uk
For a while, I've had a link to Rob Bradshaw's Earlychurch.org.uk blog in my blogroll, alongside his BiblicalStudies.org.uk blog, both of which I enjoy following. I've now added a link also to the Earlychurch.org.uk site on my short Early Church and Patristics page, with thanks to Rob for the suggestion.
More scholars, C, especially Chesnutt
Some further NT Gateway Scholars updates. Scholars: C has been refreshed; I've deleted Larry Chouinard -- can't find him. I've added Severino Croatto, with thanks to Luis Durruty for the link. For those who read Spanish (I don't), there's lots there.
I've updated several URLs, and this always gives me a chance to see how the quiet open-source revolution on scholars' homepages is continuing. It's something I've often mentioned here, but it is exciting to see the extent to which scholarship is being made available to a wide audience through reproductions on scholars' homepages. The latest excellent contribution to this revolution is Randall Chesnutt who has the following of his articles available as PDFs on the site for all to view:
"Perceptions of Oil in Early Judaism and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 14 (2005) 113-32.
"George Nickelsburg's Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: Retrospect and Prospect," in G. W. E. Nickelsburg in Perspective: An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning, Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck, eds., 2 vols., Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 80. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Vol. 2, pp. 343-56
"Covenant and Cosmos in Wisdom of Solomon 10-19," in The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period, eds. Stanley E. Porter and Jacqueline C. R. de Roo. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 71. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 223-49.
"From Text to Context: The Social Matrix of Joseph and Aseneth," in Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers, ed. K. H. Richards. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. 285-302
"Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman Era," in Essays on Women in Earliest Christianity, vol. 1, ed. Carroll Osburn. Joplin, MO: College Press, 1993. Pp. 93-130
"Revelatory Experiences Attributed to Biblical Women in Early Jewish Literature," in 'Women Like This': New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World, ed. A.-J. Levine, Early Judaism and Its Literature 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. Pp. 107-25.
"The Social Setting and Purpose of Joseph and Aseneth," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 2 (1988) 21-48
Lots of material of interest there, and lots for me to add to my Aseneth Bibliography, which is in desperate need of a decent overhaul.
I've updated several URLs, and this always gives me a chance to see how the quiet open-source revolution on scholars' homepages is continuing. It's something I've often mentioned here, but it is exciting to see the extent to which scholarship is being made available to a wide audience through reproductions on scholars' homepages. The latest excellent contribution to this revolution is Randall Chesnutt who has the following of his articles available as PDFs on the site for all to view:
"Perceptions of Oil in Early Judaism and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 14 (2005) 113-32.
"George Nickelsburg's Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: Retrospect and Prospect," in G. W. E. Nickelsburg in Perspective: An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning, Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck, eds., 2 vols., Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 80. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Vol. 2, pp. 343-56
"Covenant and Cosmos in Wisdom of Solomon 10-19," in The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period, eds. Stanley E. Porter and Jacqueline C. R. de Roo. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 71. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 223-49.
"From Text to Context: The Social Matrix of Joseph and Aseneth," in Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers, ed. K. H. Richards. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. 285-302
"Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman Era," in Essays on Women in Earliest Christianity, vol. 1, ed. Carroll Osburn. Joplin, MO: College Press, 1993. Pp. 93-130
"Revelatory Experiences Attributed to Biblical Women in Early Jewish Literature," in 'Women Like This': New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World, ed. A.-J. Levine, Early Judaism and Its Literature 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. Pp. 107-25.
"The Social Setting and Purpose of Joseph and Aseneth," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 2 (1988) 21-48
Lots of material of interest there, and lots for me to add to my Aseneth Bibliography, which is in desperate need of a decent overhaul.
New homepage
My move away from Birmingham necessitates a move of my homepage, which has been located at http://theology.bham.ac.uk/goodacre in Birmingham for several years. I have moved all the content over to a new template I've adjusted from the NT Gateway templates, so you'll recognise the look. Please let me have any criticisms or suggestions (and no, I can't do anything about my grinning face, I am afraid):
Mark Goodacre's Homepage
While I have moved the content over, I have also done a bit of an update to the information contained. And its URL is, following the standard means of organising things here, http://NTGateway.com/goodacre.
Mark Goodacre's Homepage
While I have moved the content over, I have also done a bit of an update to the information contained. And its URL is, following the standard means of organising things here, http://NTGateway.com/goodacre.
ITSEE
ITSEE is the name of a new institute at the University of Birmingham, the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, created in May this year, the directors of which are my long time colleague David Parker and my new colleague Peter Robinson. It has a smart new website, including a news section, and it's well worth a visit:
Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
Neville Birdsall
I have commented previously on the Times Obituary of Neville Birdsall written by my colleague David Parker. Thanks to Richard Birdsall for pointing out to me that there was also an obituary in The Independent:
Professor J. Neville Birdsall
Formidably erudite New Testament scholar
Unfortunately, the bulk of the article is subscription only.
See also this special page at the University of Birmingham's new ITSEE:
Professor J. Neville Birdsall
It features the eulogy delivered by David Parker at Neville Birdsall's funeral. And see too a brief Leeds University Obituary.
Professor J. Neville Birdsall
Formidably erudite New Testament scholar
Unfortunately, the bulk of the article is subscription only.
See also this special page at the University of Birmingham's new ITSEE:
Professor J. Neville Birdsall
It features the eulogy delivered by David Parker at Neville Birdsall's funeral. And see too a brief Leeds University Obituary.
Jesus Creed Adjustment
I've belatedly got round to adjusting my blogroll -- Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed recently moved and I've made the adjustment to the new feed on my blogroll.
E is for Evans
On Primal Subversion, Sean du Toit draws attention to Craig Evans's powerpoint presentations and documents, which are well worth a visit (though Introduction to the Four Gospels is not working). He has an interesting one on Historical Jesus Quests, which, as it happens, illustrates one of Dale Allison's complaints in Secularizing Jesus (see previous post), that there was ever such a thing as a period of "no quest". Anyway, I checked my links and noticed that I had an outdated link to Craig Evans's homepage on my Scholars: E page, which I have no refreshed all through (though I failed to locate Claudio Ettl, so I've deleted that link).
Dale Allison's Resurrecting Jesus
I'll join with Loren Rosson on The Busybody in looking forward to Dale Allison's latest, Resurrecting Jesus:
Resurrecting Jesus
The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters
including comments from Jimmy Dunn, Scot McKnight, Gregory Sterling, Joel Marcus, Craig Evans, Daniel Harrington, Gregory Sterling, David Aune. From the look of the table of contents,
Update (Wednesday, 19.10): On The Busybody Loren Rosson notes that the books is now available. I'm hoping that Continuum bring a batch with them to the BNTC tomorrow; it will be the first book I'm after. Meanwhile, on Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight speaks of getting Allison, Segal and Wright together (and in comments Rosson rightly adds Lüdeman) for a juicy debate on all of this. Great idea.
I'm excited about this book, which is definitely the best study of the resurrection. (I know from proof-reading a part of it.) It steers between the poles of Wright and Ludemann, using the best of both worlds while eschewing dogmatism from either side. Dale makes a good case for historicity of the empty tomb, though differently than Wright, and with sanity by recognizing the variety of possibilities which could account for an empty tomb -- an actual resurrection being but one of them. Then too he dabbles into grief-induced visions, though again, better than Ludemann does, and with less dogmatic surety. Dale well understands that Jesus expected to suffer and die (probably expected some of his followers to die too) as a necessary prelude to the apocalypse. That apocalypse, about which our Galilean friend was obviously mistaken.Continuum have a shed load of endorsements that echo Loren's opinion:
Resurrecting Jesus
The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters
including comments from Jimmy Dunn, Scot McKnight, Gregory Sterling, Joel Marcus, Craig Evans, Daniel Harrington, Gregory Sterling, David Aune. From the look of the table of contents,
1. Secularizing Jesusthere are several pieces that have been floated prior to publication on the net, including chapters 2 and 3 on the Xtalk Allison Seminar in 2003 and chapter 1 on Allison's homepage, a brilliant piece entitled The Secularizing of the Historical Jesus (PDF).
2. The Problem of Audience
3. The Problem of Gehenna
Excursus I: Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Historical Jesus
4. Apocalyptic, Polemic, Apologetics
5. Torah, Urzeit, Endzeit
6. Resurrecting Jesus
Excursus II: Joseph of Arimathea
Excursus III: The Disciples and Bereavement
Index of Scripture
Index of Modern Names
Update (Wednesday, 19.10): On The Busybody Loren Rosson notes that the books is now available. I'm hoping that Continuum bring a batch with them to the BNTC tomorrow; it will be the first book I'm after. Meanwhile, on Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight speaks of getting Allison, Segal and Wright together (and in comments Rosson rightly adds Lüdeman) for a juicy debate on all of this. Great idea.
Apocryphal Jesus @ Rel Anc Med
I'll second Tyler Williams's endorsement of a series of excellent posts from Phil Harland on New Testament Apocrypha. So far:
1. The Cursing Infant Jesus
2. The Little Drummer Boy and Protevangelium of James
3. Jesus' Descent into Hell and Satan's Conversation with Hades
4. Peter (in the Pseudo-Clementines) on "false" passages in scripture
5. Acts of John: Be thou like the bed-bugs
1. The Cursing Infant Jesus
2. The Little Drummer Boy and Protevangelium of James
3. Jesus' Descent into Hell and Satan's Conversation with Hades
4. Peter (in the Pseudo-Clementines) on "false" passages in scripture
5. Acts of John: Be thou like the bed-bugs
Hurricane Katrina
Spare a thought or a prayer for biblioblogger Michael Homan who has not signed back in since Sunday and at that point sounded pretty concerned about Hurrican Katrina, The Die is Cast. Hope all's well, Michael.
Update (Tuesday, 01.21): as others have also commented, Michael Homan reports, "I survived Hurricane Katrina, but it transformed me. I am a different person . . . ."
Update (Tuesday, 01.21): as others have also commented, Michael Homan reports, "I survived Hurricane Katrina, but it transformed me. I am a different person . . . ."
Wright in Portuguese
You know you've made it when your work is translated into Portuguese; the latest addition to the N. T. Wright page offers a Portuguese translation of Paul in Different Perspectives (PDF).
Review of Biblical Literature latest
Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading:
Koester, Craig R.
Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community
Reviewed by Petrus Maritz
Koester, Helmut, ed.
Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament and Archaeology Project
Reviewed by Warren Carter
Meyer, Marvin and Charles Hughes, eds.
Jesus Then and Now: Images of Jesus in History and Christology
Reviewed by Joel Williams
Riches, John and David C. Sim, eds.
The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context
Reviewed by Donald Carson
Rossing, Barbara R.
The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by David Mathewson
Koester, Craig R.
Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: Meaning, Mystery, Community
Reviewed by Petrus Maritz
Koester, Helmut, ed.
Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament and Archaeology Project
Reviewed by Warren Carter
Meyer, Marvin and Charles Hughes, eds.
Jesus Then and Now: Images of Jesus in History and Christology
Reviewed by Joel Williams
Riches, John and David C. Sim, eds.
The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context
Reviewed by Donald Carson
Rossing, Barbara R.
The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
Reviewed by David Mathewson
Monday, August 29, 2005
Eric Meyers on TV this week
If you are in North Carolina (wish I was), Eric Meyers will be on UNC public television this week:
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Jewish Heritage Foundation of NC in the spotlight on UNC-TV (www.jhfnc.org)
Don't miss seeing Dr. Eric Meyers in a fascinating conversation with William Friday on the North Carolina People program, airing on Friday, September 2, 2005 at 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. The origins of the Jewish Heritage Foundation of NC, the continuing influence of Rabbi Efraim Rosenzweig on our work, the Down Home project, and Dr. Meyers remarkable career as an archeologist and scholar are among the topics in this erudite and wide-ranging discussion.
The program will also air in all of the NC Channel slots during the week -- Monday, at 7:00 am, 8:30 am, and 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, at 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. UNC-TV’s NC Channel is available to those with a digital tuner or digital cable with Time Warner.
If you miss the air times, the interview will also be available streaming on the Web for a month. Point your browser to:
http://www.unctv.org/ncpeople/watch_people.html
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Jewish Heritage Foundation of NC in the spotlight on UNC-TV (www.jhfnc.org)
Don't miss seeing Dr. Eric Meyers in a fascinating conversation with William Friday on the North Carolina People program, airing on Friday, September 2, 2005 at 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. The origins of the Jewish Heritage Foundation of NC, the continuing influence of Rabbi Efraim Rosenzweig on our work, the Down Home project, and Dr. Meyers remarkable career as an archeologist and scholar are among the topics in this erudite and wide-ranging discussion.
The program will also air in all of the NC Channel slots during the week -- Monday, at 7:00 am, 8:30 am, and 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, at 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. UNC-TV’s NC Channel is available to those with a digital tuner or digital cable with Time Warner.
If you miss the air times, the interview will also be available streaming on the Web for a month. Point your browser to:
http://www.unctv.org/ncpeople/watch_people.html
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Michael Thompson homepage
I've added Michael Thompson, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, UK, to the Scholars: T page. I've also refreshed all the links on that page, including James Tabor who is advertising a forthcoming new book called The Jesus Dynasty, due out next year.
Classes Start Today
My first class in my new job at Duke University, Dept of Religion starts today. It's Introduction to the New Testament and meets at 1.30 . . . . . except that I'm not there to teach it. I'm still in Birmingham awaiting the arrival of my visa. Everything else is pretty much in place. You might say that I am "virtually" there -- I have a faculty page and a working email address (goodacre@duke.edu), I've set up all my teaching on the Blackboard site which Duke uses. Incidentally, I've enjoyed using Blackboard for the first time. So far, pretty intuitive and straightforward.
So what's the plan? Dr Andrew Mbuvi is teaching my NT class until I arrive in person. We await more news from US immigration. I am still hopeful that we will be able to move within the next two to three weeks, but it is impossible to say more until we hear more. In the mean time, one bonus of still being here is that I will take a last visit to the British New Testament Conference at the end of this week. I look forward to seeing some of you there.
Update (Tuesday, 1.16): Not long after writing the above post, I heard from Duke International Office that that my H1-B visa has been approved; now I await an appointment at the US consulate in London.
So what's the plan? Dr Andrew Mbuvi is teaching my NT class until I arrive in person. We await more news from US immigration. I am still hopeful that we will be able to move within the next two to three weeks, but it is impossible to say more until we hear more. In the mean time, one bonus of still being here is that I will take a last visit to the British New Testament Conference at the end of this week. I look forward to seeing some of you there.
Update (Tuesday, 1.16): Not long after writing the above post, I heard from Duke International Office that that my H1-B visa has been approved; now I await an appointment at the US consulate in London.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
That Jesus film
If you are interested in Jesus films, one of life's little mysteries is how the Jesus film (John Krish & Peter Sykes, 1979) can be so successful as an international tool of evangelism when it is so bad. On Filmchat Peter Chattaway points to an interesting piece in last week's New York Times:
Putting Jesus in Every Mailbox
By SHAILA DEWAN
Peter also refers to an article in Christian Century by John Dart on The Making of Jesus -- the Motion Picture and I have added that to my page on the Jesus film.
Putting Jesus in Every Mailbox
By SHAILA DEWAN
Warren Smith, the publisher of an evangelical Christian newspaper in Charlotte, N.C., compares the movie "Jesus" to the jawbone of an ass.Not so sure that having a British voiceover can be held against it. I'd never even noticed. Is it British? Isn't it Richard Kiley and isn't he American? There are some nice stories in the article, including this:
That is, it does not matter if the movie, a 1979 box office flop, has a gooey soundtrack and a British voiceover, or if the actor who plays Jesus breathes noticeably as he lies in the tomb. If a weapon as unlikely as a jawbone can slay an army, as the biblical story goes, then "Jesus," direct-mailed on DVD to every household in Mecklenburg County, N.C., can offer salvation.
A turning point came when a doctor in Birmingham, Ala., Robert Cosby, bought 1.7 million copies and mailed them in 1998 to every household in Alabama, although he "wasn't very impressed" when he saw the film.Peter Chattaway has a link to Martin E. Marty's comments and to several other useful bits and bobs, with additional comments. Something new to me:
"I mean, it was a nice film," Mr. Cosby recalled the other day, speaking by telephone from his home. "I would say it was moderately good."
The mailing included Mr. Cosby's home address and telephone number. One day, he said, he found a copy of the video in his front yard with a note that said, "Jesus has returned."
Hopping on to yet another tangent, I saw this film on the big screen when it was brand new, and I bought a copy of Lee Roddy's novelization that still occupies a prominent place on my Jesus-movies bookshelf. That's right, a film whose big selling point was that it was for the most part a word-for-word adaptation of the Gospel of Luke was novelized.And if you don't own a copy yet, you can pick one up on Amazon for $0.01! An offer not to be missed, surely.
Peter also refers to an article in Christian Century by John Dart on The Making of Jesus -- the Motion Picture and I have added that to my page on the Jesus film.
Monday, August 22, 2005
Review of Biblical Literature latest
Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT heading:
Boring, M. Eugene and Fred B. Craddock
The People's New Testament Commentary
Reviewed by Jeffrey Lamp
Harvey, A. E.
A Companion to the New Testament: Second Edition
Reviewed by Julia Fogg
Newheart, Michael Willett
"My Name Is Legion": The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Reviewed by Kamila Blessing
Newheart, Michael Willett
"My Name Is Legion": The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Reviewed by D. Kille
Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds.
Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative in Greco-Roman Discourse
Reviewed by Paul Elbert
Powell, Mark Allan
Loving Jesus
Reviewed by Doreen Mcfarlane
Powell, Mark Allan
Loving Jesus
Reviewed by Joel Williams
Warren, David H., Ann Graham Brock, and David W. Pao, eds.
Early Christian Voices in Texts, Traditions, and Symbols: Essays in Honor of François Bovon
Reviewed by H. H. Williams
Boring, M. Eugene and Fred B. Craddock
The People's New Testament Commentary
Reviewed by Jeffrey Lamp
Harvey, A. E.
A Companion to the New Testament: Second Edition
Reviewed by Julia Fogg
Newheart, Michael Willett
"My Name Is Legion": The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Reviewed by Kamila Blessing
Newheart, Michael Willett
"My Name Is Legion": The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Reviewed by D. Kille
Penner, Todd and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds.
Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative in Greco-Roman Discourse
Reviewed by Paul Elbert
Powell, Mark Allan
Loving Jesus
Reviewed by Doreen Mcfarlane
Powell, Mark Allan
Loving Jesus
Reviewed by Joel Williams
Warren, David H., Ann Graham Brock, and David W. Pao, eds.
Early Christian Voices in Texts, Traditions, and Symbols: Essays in Honor of François Bovon
Reviewed by H. H. Williams
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Illuminating Luke, Volume 2
Thanks to Mikeal Parsons for the good news that the second volume of Illuminating Luke is now available:
Illuminating Luke, Volume 2
The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting
by Mikeal C. Parsons and Heidi J. Hornik
August 1, 2005
ISBN: 0567028208
paperback
192 Pages
7 x 10 | 254 x 178
$34.95
Description
This book examines visual representations of the public ministry of Christ in scenes unique to the Gospel of Luke. Scenes depicting the birth, suffering, and crucifixion of Christ no doubt dominated the visual repertoire of medieval and renaissance artists. Nonetheless, the miracles and teachings of Jesus also inspired numerous depictions, not only during the period of the earliest Christian art but continuing throughout the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods. The book demonstrates how this “visual exegesis” might enrich our understanding of Luke’s Gospel and at the same time inform the contemporary faith community’s interpretation of Scripture. Each of these chapters begins with an overview of the biblical passage and its subsequent interpretation, noting significant rhetorical features and the overarching theological argument of the text, as well as outlining a brief summary of its subsequent interpretation in the ecclesiastical literature. Next, the selected work of art is lent context by giving a brief biography of the artist, placing the work within the artist’s own oeuvre, discussing what is known of the patronage of the specific mage, and exploring important social, political and religious factors which may facilitate our understanding of the painting. A stylistic and iconographic analysis is followed by brief hermeneutical reflections about how this visual interpretation might inform the church’s reading of Scripture.
Illuminating Luke will appeal broadly to students of the Bible and the history of Christian art. Scholars and students interested in the history of biblical interpretation will benefit from this book. Likewise, educated laypersons and pastors will find in its pages rich resources for theological reflection
Reviews for Illuminating Luke, Volume 2
"Hornick and Parsons rightly discern that biblical texts cannot be segregated from their 'afterlife,' and that the interpretive tradition cannot be limited to the linear words of the treatise or commentary. Bycontextualizing key exemplars of the "visual exegesis" of selected scenes from Jesus' public ministry unique to Luke, they draw us into the history of Luke's reception in ways that are equally elegant and engaging. Here is a book that both excites critical reflection and invites joyful participation. Joel B. Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Vice President of Academic Affairs & Provost, Asbury Theological Seminary
"One of the endlessly-interesting things about studying works of art is that so many different approaches are possible. The series entitled 'Illuminating Luke' chooses to examine a few works in exaustive but enlightening detail. One comes away from each example with a greater understanding not only of some of the meanings the work conveyed at the moment of its creation, but also of an increased awareness into how it can be understood in our modern world." -David G. Wilkins, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
"This book is an eye-opener! Fascinating discussion of five stunning Italian paintings opens up intriguing vistas on key passages in Luke's Gospel. A wide readership will appreciate the authors' clarity and rigour, and will look forward eagerly to the final volume in a trilogy which will be a landmark in our appreciation of the 'visual exegesis' of Luke's Gospel."
-Graham Stanton, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Illuminating Luke, Volume 2The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting
by Mikeal C. Parsons and Heidi J. Hornik
August 1, 2005
ISBN: 0567028208
paperback
192 Pages
7 x 10 | 254 x 178
$34.95
Description
This book examines visual representations of the public ministry of Christ in scenes unique to the Gospel of Luke. Scenes depicting the birth, suffering, and crucifixion of Christ no doubt dominated the visual repertoire of medieval and renaissance artists. Nonetheless, the miracles and teachings of Jesus also inspired numerous depictions, not only during the period of the earliest Christian art but continuing throughout the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods. The book demonstrates how this “visual exegesis” might enrich our understanding of Luke’s Gospel and at the same time inform the contemporary faith community’s interpretation of Scripture. Each of these chapters begins with an overview of the biblical passage and its subsequent interpretation, noting significant rhetorical features and the overarching theological argument of the text, as well as outlining a brief summary of its subsequent interpretation in the ecclesiastical literature. Next, the selected work of art is lent context by giving a brief biography of the artist, placing the work within the artist’s own oeuvre, discussing what is known of the patronage of the specific mage, and exploring important social, political and religious factors which may facilitate our understanding of the painting. A stylistic and iconographic analysis is followed by brief hermeneutical reflections about how this visual interpretation might inform the church’s reading of Scripture.
Illuminating Luke will appeal broadly to students of the Bible and the history of Christian art. Scholars and students interested in the history of biblical interpretation will benefit from this book. Likewise, educated laypersons and pastors will find in its pages rich resources for theological reflection
Reviews for Illuminating Luke, Volume 2
"Hornick and Parsons rightly discern that biblical texts cannot be segregated from their 'afterlife,' and that the interpretive tradition cannot be limited to the linear words of the treatise or commentary. Bycontextualizing key exemplars of the "visual exegesis" of selected scenes from Jesus' public ministry unique to Luke, they draw us into the history of Luke's reception in ways that are equally elegant and engaging. Here is a book that both excites critical reflection and invites joyful participation. Joel B. Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Vice President of Academic Affairs & Provost, Asbury Theological Seminary
"One of the endlessly-interesting things about studying works of art is that so many different approaches are possible. The series entitled 'Illuminating Luke' chooses to examine a few works in exaustive but enlightening detail. One comes away from each example with a greater understanding not only of some of the meanings the work conveyed at the moment of its creation, but also of an increased awareness into how it can be understood in our modern world." -David G. Wilkins, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
"This book is an eye-opener! Fascinating discussion of five stunning Italian paintings opens up intriguing vistas on key passages in Luke's Gospel. A wide readership will appreciate the authors' clarity and rigour, and will look forward eagerly to the final volume in a trilogy which will be a landmark in our appreciation of the 'visual exegesis' of Luke's Gospel."
-Graham Stanton, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Cornelis Bennema
On the Scholars: B page, I've added:
Dr Cornelis Bennema
South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore, India
The page features several full text reproductions of articles:
"The Sword of the Messiah and the Concept of Liberation in the Fourth Gospel"
Biblica 86 (2005): 35-58
"Spirit-Baptism in the Fourth Gospel. A Messianic Reading of John 1,33."
Biblica 84 (2003): 35-60
"The Giving of the Spirit in John's Gospel: A New Proposal?"
Evangelical Quarterly 74 (2002): 195-213
"The Strands of Wisdom Tradition in Intertestamental Judaism: Origins, Developments and Characteristics"
Tyndale Bulletin 52 (2001): 61-82
Dr Cornelis Bennema
South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies, Bangalore, India
The page features several full text reproductions of articles:
"The Sword of the Messiah and the Concept of Liberation in the Fourth Gospel"
Biblica 86 (2005): 35-58
"Spirit-Baptism in the Fourth Gospel. A Messianic Reading of John 1,33."
Biblica 84 (2003): 35-60
"The Giving of the Spirit in John's Gospel: A New Proposal?"
Evangelical Quarterly 74 (2002): 195-213
"The Strands of Wisdom Tradition in Intertestamental Judaism: Origins, Developments and Characteristics"
Tyndale Bulletin 52 (2001): 61-82
Thursday, August 18, 2005
More BNTC updates
I've made some more updates to the BNTC website for the conference programme this year, Liverpool, 1-3 September:
British New Testament Conference
The updates are to the Short Papers -- full programme (minus one abstract) now available -- and to Johannine Literature, where there is a change in the programme.
As it happens, I sent my own booking in today, since it now looks like I am going to be able to make it after all. It's a conference I always look forward to, so I am very pleased that I should be able to make it, having earlier thought that it would not be possible.
British New Testament Conference
The updates are to the Short Papers -- full programme (minus one abstract) now available -- and to Johannine Literature, where there is a change in the programme.
As it happens, I sent my own booking in today, since it now looks like I am going to be able to make it after all. It's a conference I always look forward to, so I am very pleased that I should be able to make it, having earlier thought that it would not be possible.
Biblical Theology Bulletin, Spring 2005:
Articles from the Spring 2005 edition of Biblical Theology Bulletin are now on-line at FindArticles:
Biblical Theology Bulletin, Spring 2005
Of particular interest:
Sean P. Kealy, Change and the Gospels
Douglas E. Oakman, Culture, society, and embedded religion in antiquity
Biblical Theology Bulletin, Spring 2005
Of particular interest:
Sean P. Kealy, Change and the Gospels
A review of currents of change that have characterized traditional and recent interpretative models of critical gospel interpretation. The author characterizes changes that occurred up to and since the 1970s, noting how recent developments have integrated critical methods of the 19th and 20th centuries into a performance mode as in music and drama.
Douglas E. Oakman, Culture, society, and embedded religion in antiquity
After the concepts of "society," "culture," and the "embeddedness of religion" have been reviewed from the standpoint of the social sciences, religion's place in antiquity is considered in relationship to the Judean temple, ecclesia and synagogue, and the controverted terms "Jew" and "Christian." The meaning of religion, and the role it plays in human affairs, is argued to be fundamentally dependent upon its location in society or culture.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Top 500 World Universities
The latest edition of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Top 500 World Universities has now been published:
Academic Ranking of World Universities -- 2005
Harvard is still top, but Cambridge jumps to second above Stanford. Education Guardian comments:
Cambridge climbs to second in world university rankings
Donald MacLeod
Update (9.46): In comments Ken Olson notes that things are a little different for the American universities in the US News and World Report rankings. See America's Best Colleges 2005. Harvard and Princeton tie at the top, Yale at 3, UPenn 4 and Duke, MIT and Stanford tied at 5.
Academic Ranking of World Universities -- 2005
Harvard is still top, but Cambridge jumps to second above Stanford. Education Guardian comments:
Cambridge climbs to second in world university rankings
Donald MacLeod
American institutions, both public and private, dominate the list but this year Stanford has ceded second place to Cambridge. Oxford has dropped from eighth to 10th in the table which its compilers admit favours science. The number of Nobel prize winners among alumni and on the staff count towards 30% of the ranking and Cambridge alumni almost equals Harvard's in this respect . . . .But of course we are all going to use this list to see where our universities figure, those where we studied and those where we work. It's difficult to resist the urge to look. Oxford, where I studied, is still in the top 10, just. Birmingham, where I work, just makes the Top 100, coming in at 98, dropping five places from last year (see last year's comment here), but that's still pretty respectable. Duke, where I am moving in September, is at 32.
. . . . UK university continue to perform well against the European competition - Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and University College London take the top four places in Europe, with Edinburgh in ninth position. Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, King's College London and Nottingham are all in the top 30 universities in Europe.
Update (9.46): In comments Ken Olson notes that things are a little different for the American universities in the US News and World Report rankings. See America's Best Colleges 2005. Harvard and Princeton tie at the top, Yale at 3, UPenn 4 and Duke, MIT and Stanford tied at 5.
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism latest
Thanks to Matthew Brook O'Donnell for alerting me to new additions to the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism:
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism (Volume 2)
The new articles are the following:
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism (Volume 2)
The new articles are the following:
2.5: Douglas C. Mohrmann, Boast Not in your Righteousness from the Law: A New Reading of Romans 10.6-8Remember that eventually these will go into print and will disappear from the web, so enjoy their on-line presence while it lasts!
2.6: Jintae Kim, The Concept of Atonement in Hellenistic Thought and 1 John
2.7: Jintae Kim, The Concept of Atonement in Early Rabbinic Thought and the New Testament Writings
2.8: Craig Keener, ‘Let the Wife have Authority Over Her Husband’ (1 Corinthians 11.10)
2.9: Patrick James, Participial Complementation in Roman and Byzantine Documentary Papyri: ἐπίσταμαι, μανθάνω, εὑρίσκω
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Synoptic Problem and Q Page Refresh
Thanks to Mathew Schlechter for alerting me to the need to refresh all my links on the NT Gateway to articles that were hosted on the old Synoptic-L site, now at http://NTGateway.com/synoptic-l. I am referring to the links to articles on this page:
Synoptic Problem and Q: Books and Articles
I have not put "New URL" by each one this time, mainly because I couldn't be bothered.
Synoptic Problem and Q: Books and Articles
I have not put "New URL" by each one this time, mainly because I couldn't be bothered.
Bibliobloggers' Brill Books
It's most reassuring to discover that biblioblogging is indeed conducive to writing books! And these are not just any old books but top quality Brill monographs. Congratulations to both Jim Davila and Torrey Seland. Jim Davila of Paleojudaica announces his new book, now on Brill's website, The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other?, and Torrey Seland of Philo of Alexandria blog announces that Strangers in the Light: Philonic Perspectives on Christian Identity in 1 Peter is now in the shops.
Richard Oster
Thanks to Matthew Schlechter for alerting me to Richard Oster's homepage (CV -- PDF only) URL change, now adjusted on Scholars: O, P, Q. Richard Earl Oster is based at Harding University, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Your favourite Jesus
On Codex: Blogspot Tyler Williams draws attention to the Arts and Faith forum topic:
Who is your favourite Film Jesus?
It looks like the list has been put together by Matt Page and it's splendidly comprehensive. Leaders so far are Jim Caviezel (not Cavaziel) and Robert Powell. I like Caviezel's portrayal, but I'm not a fan of Powell's. I'll have to sleep on this question to work out who my one vote should go to. I'm tempted to say Henry Ian Cusick, of the Gospel of John. There are elements in lots of them I like, e.g. parts of Willem Dafoe's Jesus in Last Temptation of Christ, but not all of it; and I like some of Jeremy Sisto's Jesus (1999) and Ted Neeley's (not Neely) Jesus Christ Superstar. Definite no's for me are Victor Garber (Godspell) and Max Von Sydow (Greatest Story).
Who is your favourite Film Jesus?
It looks like the list has been put together by Matt Page and it's splendidly comprehensive. Leaders so far are Jim Caviezel (not Cavaziel) and Robert Powell. I like Caviezel's portrayal, but I'm not a fan of Powell's. I'll have to sleep on this question to work out who my one vote should go to. I'm tempted to say Henry Ian Cusick, of the Gospel of John. There are elements in lots of them I like, e.g. parts of Willem Dafoe's Jesus in Last Temptation of Christ, but not all of it; and I like some of Jeremy Sisto's Jesus (1999) and Ted Neeley's (not Neely) Jesus Christ Superstar. Definite no's for me are Victor Garber (Godspell) and Max Von Sydow (Greatest Story).
More BNTC updates
There are more updates available on the British New Testament Conference website, specifically full papers for downloading on the Acts Seminar page and on the Social World of the New Testament page.
Death of W. H. C. Frend
On Earlychurch.org.uk Rob Bradshaw notes the passing of W. H. C. Frend on July 1, with a link to this obituary in the Telegraph:
The Rev Prof William Frend
The Rev Prof William Frend
Google Print set back
On Biblical Theology, Jim West notes an article from SFGate.com:
Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
Although neither the article nor Google's announcement make the distinction explicitly, it seems that the halt is not over the continuing Google Print project but specifically over the scanning of material in libraries. The vast majority of what I have found on Google Print (and it is a huge amount) is not from this older, scanned material, but from contemporary works that Google have taken over digitally from the publishers themselves, e.g. Cambridge University Press (cf. my recent post on Mark Chancey's book). This is comparable to what is going on on Amazon and the story that they tell is that the full-text availability tends to increase sales rather than the reverse. I'd be interested to hear more on whether there is evidence to back that up.
Update (15.38): more on The Google Weblog under the title Google Sells Out Users to Publishers. This post makes it clear that the issue is indeed one about whether or not to the books can be allowed to be scanned and so available for searching, and not necessarily that there would be full text availability on all the scanned books. This blog is pretty biting in its criticism of the publishers:
Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine.The announcement can be read on Google Blog, which is a great deal more up-beat than the Associated Press article above.
The company announced the suspension, effective until November, in a notice posted on its Web site just before midnight Thursday by Adam Smith, the manager of its ambitious program to convert millions of books into a digital format.
Although neither the article nor Google's announcement make the distinction explicitly, it seems that the halt is not over the continuing Google Print project but specifically over the scanning of material in libraries. The vast majority of what I have found on Google Print (and it is a huge amount) is not from this older, scanned material, but from contemporary works that Google have taken over digitally from the publishers themselves, e.g. Cambridge University Press (cf. my recent post on Mark Chancey's book). This is comparable to what is going on on Amazon and the story that they tell is that the full-text availability tends to increase sales rather than the reverse. I'd be interested to hear more on whether there is evidence to back that up.
Update (15.38): more on The Google Weblog under the title Google Sells Out Users to Publishers. This post makes it clear that the issue is indeed one about whether or not to the books can be allowed to be scanned and so available for searching, and not necessarily that there would be full text availability on all the scanned books. This blog is pretty biting in its criticism of the publishers:
Publishers, in typical copyright-holder paranoia fashion worried that perhaps the two line snippets Google would be providing of their books would spell the end of the world for their entire industry . . . . That's right: Google won't even scan any book copyright holders ask them not to, even though doing so is perfectly legal. It's as if copyright holders got to dictate what books get placed in libraries. Their short-sighted selfishness will cost us all, depriving us of our heritage in our online Library of Alexandria.Note: the Google Weblog independent of Google -- run by an enthusiast.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Where do you start with Goulder?
Matthew Page asks, "Where would you advise someone to start with Goulder?" Interesting question. In his hey-day, there's no question but I'd encourage someone to get to hear him live. I used to attend his day schools here in Birmingham when I was a student and watch him spar with the top scholars of the day, watching him win every time. (Michael did tend to see the sessions in terms of "winning" or not.) He told me once that he thought Richard Bauckham had proved a formidable opponent and that, because he (Michael) did not have a good response to Bauckham on the Ascension of Isaiah, that the result was a "draw".
But since his retirement in 1994, to get a flavour you need to begin with his writings. On the whole, Goulder has written for an academic audience, aiming at peers -- fellow scholars and post-graduate students, and taking for granted much of the introductory material. He's rarely been someone whose written work one can approach as a beginner. The major exception to this would be his Tale of Two Missions (London: SCM, 1994) [published in the US as Peter vs. Paul] which is an enjoyable paperback introduction to one of his later theories on Christian origins. So that might be a reasonable place to start. But it doesn't get to the heart of what I've most enjoyed about Michael Goulder's work. I think the book I most like is Midrash and Lection in Matthew (London: SPCK, 1974), brilliant, imaginative, under-rated. Perhaps next I'd list Luke: A New Paradigm (JSNTSup, 20; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989). I've made one of his articles available on the web, "Is Q a Juggernaut?".
But since his retirement in 1994, to get a flavour you need to begin with his writings. On the whole, Goulder has written for an academic audience, aiming at peers -- fellow scholars and post-graduate students, and taking for granted much of the introductory material. He's rarely been someone whose written work one can approach as a beginner. The major exception to this would be his Tale of Two Missions (London: SCM, 1994) [published in the US as Peter vs. Paul] which is an enjoyable paperback introduction to one of his later theories on Christian origins. So that might be a reasonable place to start. But it doesn't get to the heart of what I've most enjoyed about Michael Goulder's work. I think the book I most like is Midrash and Lection in Matthew (London: SPCK, 1974), brilliant, imaginative, under-rated. Perhaps next I'd list Luke: A New Paradigm (JSNTSup, 20; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989). I've made one of his articles available on the web, "Is Q a Juggernaut?".
Tom Wright in Seattle; Jesus Seminar dead?
The N. T. Wright page, among several new updates, has a link to the following:
A Conversation with N. T. Wright
Response: The Seattle Pacific University Magazine
If you are familiar with Tom Wright's writings, you will recognise many of the characteristic emphases. If you are not familiar with them, this interview might actually be a useful introduction. But in addition, I was struck by this paragraph:
A Conversation with N. T. Wright
Response: The Seattle Pacific University Magazine
If you are familiar with Tom Wright's writings, you will recognise many of the characteristic emphases. If you are not familiar with them, this interview might actually be a useful introduction. But in addition, I was struck by this paragraph:
Q: What about the “Jesus Seminar”?This looks a bit overstated to me. Is the Jesus Seminar really dead?
A: I see that the “Jesus Seminar” has long since run out of steam. That was really an ’80s and ’90s movement with a bunch of scholars who were working within a very tight paradigm of what would count as gospel research. Most of that was laughed at at the time by the majority of the serious scholars in the field. Not all. There are some significant figures, such as John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg, who played a leading role. But most of the main Jesus scholars would never have had anything to do with that. So that the Seminar’s claim to be the scholarly take on all the subjects that it touched was never plausible, even at the time. And, actually, it’s died a death now. I mean, I don’t think anyone really takes it seriously.
Friday, August 12, 2005
E. P. Sanders's Library
On the Novum Testamentum blog, Brandon Wason has a link to Dove Books' 30 page listing of E. P. Sanders's library:
Library of E. P. Sanders
The page features a short bio and then dozens of books from Sanders's collection for sale.
Update (Monday, 13.03): Sean the Baptist comments and no, I don't think it's "nerdy" to take pleasure in the idea of owning a great scholar's books. Perhaps we should add it to Michael Bird's NT Buff Top Ten. Of course the thrill is greatly increased if you are buying books from a scholar who wrote in books. I know (from Stephen Carlson) that Morton Smith himself regularly annotated his books. But not everyone does. I'm the son of a book-collector and never write in books and I know that many feel the same way.
Library of E. P. Sanders
The page features a short bio and then dozens of books from Sanders's collection for sale.
Update (Monday, 13.03): Sean the Baptist comments and no, I don't think it's "nerdy" to take pleasure in the idea of owning a great scholar's books. Perhaps we should add it to Michael Bird's NT Buff Top Ten. Of course the thrill is greatly increased if you are buying books from a scholar who wrote in books. I know (from Stephen Carlson) that Morton Smith himself regularly annotated his books. But not everyone does. I'm the son of a book-collector and never write in books and I know that many feel the same way.
Ricoblogiversary
Happy blogiversary to Ricoblog, , which is a year old today, and has a nice summing up post and which is kind enough to mention links here. We are all looking forward to the second year.
Felix Just, S. J.'s websites on the move
Felix Just, S. J.'s websites are moving again, as he moves to the University of San Francisco. The new domain name is http://catholic-resources.org/ and this is the base page:
Catholic Resources for Bible, Liturgy and More
Johannine Literature is now at http://catholic-resources.org/John/:
Johannine Literature
It'll be a job getting round the many links to Felix's stuff on the NT Gateway, but I'll get it done asap. Congratulations on the new post, Felix, and good luck with the move.
Catholic Resources for Bible, Liturgy and More
Johannine Literature is now at http://catholic-resources.org/John/:
Johannine Literature
It'll be a job getting round the many links to Felix's stuff on the NT Gateway, but I'll get it done asap. Congratulations on the new post, Felix, and good luck with the move.
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