Sunday, June 21, 2020

Letter from Edwin A. Abbott to Percival Gardner-Smith

›
I was recently noodling around for some biographical information on Percival Gardner-Smith who is well known in the field of NT studies a...
6 comments:
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Sourceomania

›
Samuel Sandmel's invocation of the problems of "parallelomania" in 1961 has become legendary in the field, to the point ...
8 comments:
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Morton Scott Enslin: the American Austin Farrer?

›
When I was putting together my website about Q , over twenty years ago, when websites were the latest thing, and when they were still fun a...
1 comment:
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

How similar are the Synoptics, and how do we represent it?

›
I have enjoyed the feedback, especially on  twitter , from lots of people since I dusted down the blogging machine and reignited it ea...
7 comments:
Monday, May 20, 2019

Larsen's Challenge to Studying Synoptic Relations

›
This is a second post on Matthew Larsen, Gospels Before the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)   [First post here]  in which I...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

How Similar is Luke to Matthew? Reflections Stimulated by Larsen

›
I have recently been enjoying reading Matthew Larsen's Gospels Before the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) and have been re...
6 comments:
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Favourite -- and least favourite -- Jesus Films

›
Every couple of years, I teach a course on Jesus in Film at Duke. Last time I taught the course, I ran a fun poll at the end in which I ask...
3 comments:

Further Response to Alan Garrow

›
I am grateful to Alan Garrow for responding to my post on Garrow's Flaw (details and links here) over on Bart Ehrman's blog . I...
10 comments:

Review of The Star by Emily Waples

›
It's fun to be teaching a course on Jesus in Film when a new Jesus film comes out! The Star  (dir. Timothy Reckardt) was released ...
1 comment:
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Garrow's Flaw

›
Over on Bart Ehrman's blog , there has been some fun relating to the Synoptic Problem. A commenter promised $1,000 to Prof. Ehrman...
8 comments:
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Early Christianity Position at Duke

›
I am happy to be able to post the following announcement of a position in Early Christianity in our department at Duke: -- The Departmen...
2 comments:
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Mark Mattison's Gospels.net

›
I am grateful to Andrew Bernhard for sending over news of a change in his website  Gospels.net . He posted the following message on Labor D...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

"Say it with awe!" The Apocryphal John Wayne

›
Twelve years ago ( Say it with awe ;  Say it with awe update ), I blogged about the legendary John Wayne story, in which the Duke, playing...
5 comments:
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Favourite Jesus Film

›
It's the beginning of a new academic year at Duke and this semester I am teaching my undergraduate course on Jesus in Film for a second...
2 comments:
Friday, June 30, 2017

Apocalypse of Peter (Greek text)

›
Back in 2005 , I transcribed a Greek text of the Apocalypse of Peter (Akhmim fragment, from Erich Klostermann's edition) and uploaded t...
6 comments:
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Who Was Jesus? (1977) is Now Online

›
I have blogged my fascination with the 1977 BBC documentary Who Was Jesus?  on a couple of occasions ( Caird, Flusser and Cupitt on Who Was...
2 comments: