Thursday, June 22, 2023

Theodore J. (Ted) Weeden Obituary

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Many thanks to Ken Olson for sending over the sad news of the death of Theodore J. Weeden. His obituary is here: Rev. Dr. Theodore (Ted) Wee...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Dr Laura Robinson's Crocheted Dolls

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 Lots of readers will know Laura Robinson from the podcast she co-hosts with Ian Mills, New Testament Review . Others will know her from her...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Is Mary, the Mother of Jesus at the cross and the tomb in Matthew?

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It is sometimes pointed out that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, could be present at the cross, burial, and resurrection in Mark 15.40, 15.47, an...
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Friday, June 16, 2023

Counting the Twelve (or so) Disciples

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Michael Goulder once said that New Testament scholars often substitute counting for thinking, and I confess to enjoying some counting myself...
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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Turin Shroud on the Sunday Programme

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While writing my previous post on Talking About Jesus Films on the Sunday Programme , I ran a quick search on previous posts about Radio 4...

Talking about Jesus Films on the Sunday Programme

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 I did a short interview with Emily Buchanan on BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme last week. The topic was Jesus films, and we touch on th...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Jesus' Activity in the Gospels: "only some three weeks"?

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There is an idea attributed to B. H. Streeter (1874-1937) that attempts to articulate how much time Jesus' narrated ministry, in the can...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Interview with Ariel Sabar on the NT Pod

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Over on my podcast, I enjoyed a conversation earlier today with Ariel Sabar, author of  Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gosp...
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Monday, August 24, 2020

"Tahime . . . She's true and not fake!"

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Over the last eight years or so of blogging about the Gospel of Jesus's Wife , I have occasionally thought about posting a piece of fun ...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Ariel Sabar's Veritas, and the latest on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

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Regular readers will know that I have posted many, many times over the years on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife , whether breaking news, off...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Trump and Fatigue

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Over the last twenty years or so, I have occasionally drawn attention to "the phenomenon of fatigue", according to which one can...
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Letter from Edwin A. Abbott to Percival Gardner-Smith

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

Sourceomania

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

Morton Scott Enslin: the American Austin Farrer?

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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...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

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

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

Larsen's Challenge to Studying Synoptic Relations

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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

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

Favourite -- and least favourite -- Jesus Films

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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...
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Further Response to Alan Garrow

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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...
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Review of The Star by Emily Waples

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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 ...
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