Review of The Gospel of John

There's far too much around about The Passion of the Christ at the moment, especially for a film that hasn't been released yet, so ...

Matthew Parris worries about what day Sunday is

There's a nice article in this week's Spectator about Sunday; Matthew Parris thinks he might have produced "the definitive an...

Opponents of Allegory

Another article has been placed on line by Christian History , who release their print articles incrementally over the weeks: Opponents of A...

On-line book on John 1-4

Roberta Allen has sent over a link to this on-line book of c. 100,000 words in PDF files on John's Gospel. The author received a First ...

Post-it notes from the papal kitchen

Jeff Peterson sent over this delightful piece from the Catholic World News Post-It notes from the papal kitchen It focuses on the pope's...

Different blog email

I've scrapped the previous blog email address since it is getting so furiously spammed that there have been occasions when I have accide...

Search for a Blog Reader

Since Blogger began to provide xml site feeds to enable their blogs to be read in an aggregator / blog reader, I have been looking for a go...

New York Times on Jesus Films

There's a fine article in today's New York Times on Jesus films, triggered of course by The Passion of the Christ : Enraged Filmgoe...

Scathing article on The Passion

Rochelle Altman on Ioudaios points to a really scathing article on The Passion of the Christ in Salon.com : Inside Mel Gibson's "...

Crossan views The Passion

It turns out that not only were Foxman and Bretton-Granatoor present at the Global Pastors' Network preview screening of The Passion of...

RogueClassicism on the megasite discussion

David Meadows comments on the inter-blog discussion about megasites between Torrey Seland, Jim Davila, Stephen Carlson and me (what he calls...

Atom

I mentioned recently that there is now a site feed available for this blog. Let me fill in a little more detail if you are unfamiliar with...

Foxman and Bretton-Granatoor Critique

If you've been following the news stories surrounding The Passion of the Christ , you will be familiar with the name Abraham Foxman, one...

Symposium on The Passion of the Christ

This article by Steve Gertig in The Gateway (The University of Nebraska at Omaha's Student Newspaper) advertises an academic symposium ...

Mel Gibson Interview on The World Over

The EWTN site has now added an archived version of Raymond Arroyo's "new exclusive second interview regarding 'The Passion of ...

Peter Gabriel and The Passion of the Christ

Interesting little Passion -related story on the Always On Network / Blog, Davo's Dispatch #2 : Speaking of events of Biblical proportio...

Supersites Question again

Stephen Carlson makes some useful comments on the discussion we've been having on the future of the "megasites" or "supe...

Review of Biblical Literature

Latest additions to the Review of Biblical Literature on the NT side are: Berger, Klaus Translated by Charles Muenchow Identity and Experie...

Gospel of John (Visual Bible) -- First Reflections

My DVDs of the new Visual Bible Gospel of John film arrived today. Unfortunately I have too much marking, teaching preparation and admin. ...

On-line extract from Funk's Grammar Introduction

Carl Conrad announced on b-greek today that he has now has the following ready in PDF format: Robert W. Funk, A Beginning-Intermediate Gra...

RSS feed

There is now an RSS feed available for this blog so that you can read it in an aggregator alongside your other favourite blogs. This is the...

European Association of Biblical Studies

Thanks to Jim West for this link: European Association of Biblical Studies This is a new society "created in order to promote biblical ...

More comments on the supersites

Jim Davila and Torrey Seland comment further on the megasite question. I like Jim's comment that "There's plenty of room for...

Latest Explorator

The latest Explorator has been posted: Explorator 6.39 It includes a link to an article on the James ossuary from the Toledo Blade . It is ...

Fulco speaks on The Passion

William Fulco of Loyola Marymount University is the man who did the translating into Aramaic and Latin for The Passion of the Christ . Than...

Another idea on supersites

Wieland Willker comments on the discussion that has been going on between Torrey Seland, Jim Davila and me on the future of the megasites (s...

Peggy Noonan on the Vatican Passion story

Yesterday I commented on the intrigue growing around whether the Pope did or did not say "It is as it was" about The Passion of t...

More on The Passion soundtrack -- Gibson sings!

Some more news has emerged on the soundtrack for The Passion of the Christ . It seems clear that John Debney has composed and recorded the ...

EWTN on the Vatican Passion story

There's a little more concrete information on this story on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network): Vatican Public-Relations Debacle on ...

Bible Review, February 2004

There is a new Bible Review available for February 2004. Unfortunately, they seem to have discontinued their practice of making selected a...

SBL Mark Group Web Page

The Society of Biblical Literature Mark Group now has its own web page with details about the group, how to propose papers and so on: The Ma...

Sources confirm Pope's Passion Quotation

Like everything to do with The Passion of the Christ , this story doesn't go away. And all the time the film is getting lots of free pu...

Meyers on James Ossuary "pure hearsay"

There are some useful reflections on the article on the James Ossuary by Eric Meyers in both Paleojudaica , "I'm not going to put ...

Bruce Winter, Roman Wives, Roman Widows

Thanks to Loren Rosson on Corpus Paul for reference to this new book: Bruce Winter, Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women ...

Conference Announcement: New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers

THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS A Conference to be held at Lincoln College, Oxford, 5-7 April 2004 Speakers include: Bart D Ehrm...

UK release date for The Passion of the Christ

I've been looking out for a UK release date for The Passion of the Christ and at last there seems to be one. BBC On-line , at the end ...

More doubt on the James Ossuary -- Eric Meyers

You may have seen this already, but it's worth mentioning again if not. This from Bible and Interpretation today: Well-known Israeli A...

Filología Neotestamentaria

You wait for a bus for an hour and two come at once. BSW are really pulling out the stops at the moment and now have added another volume,...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

These arrived last week but I left the email on my work PC (and blogging is mainly done from home). The titles below are those specifically...

Or did he?

Thanks to Jim West for this link from Newsmax.com : Mel Gibson Rebuts Vatican Denial Mel Gibson's spokesman issued a statement late Mond...

Pope did not say "It is as it was" after all

I commented on Saturday on Frank Rich's article, Chutzpah and Spiritual McCarthyism , which went investigating the pope's apparent ...

RSS feeds?

Two correspondents have recently asked me if there is an RSS feed so that they can view this blog using an aggregator. I'm afraid that ...

Origen: Friend or Foe?

Christian History magazine steadily makes more of its articles in a given issue available on the web. The latest to be added from Issue 80...

AKMA Wrights off Bishop Tom

Thanks to AKMA for some interesting comments on Tom Wright on postmodernity : Wright on [Postmodernism]?

What Christian Theologian are you?

I took the What Christian Theologian are you? quiz and discover that I am Erasmus . A bit of fun for an idle moment.

On-line Bible commentaries in "simple English"

I've just been sent over this URL by Keith Simons. My guess is that it won't be of much interest to most readers of this blog becau...

David Trobish on Acts 15 and Galatians

I've added a link on Paul: Books, Articles and Reviews to the following article reproduced on David Trobisch's homepage : David Tro...

Hollywood Jesus on The Passion of the Christ

I've mentioned the Hollywood Jesus web site before, and specifically on The Passion of the Christ . It has now added a lot of additiona...

Hollywood Jesus on Pasolini's Gospel According to St Matthew

I've added a link to my page on the Pasolini film, The Gospel According to St Matthew : Hollywood Jesus: The Gospel According to St Matt...

Latest Explorator

Explorator 6.38 now available and, as usual, full of interesting bits and bobs.

Shoemaker on the Virgin Mary: Review

Stephen J. Shoemaker, Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) is revi...

Carlson's Review of Foster, Part 3

Stephen Carlson's excellent review of Paul Foster, "Is it Possible to Dispense with Q?", NovT 45 (2003): 313-337 continues on...

Latest on The Passion of the Christ

The new theatrical trailer (2 mins.) for The Passion of the Christ is also now available on the official web site (and they have retained t...

BSW Multi-Library Search Engine back on the web

After a year or more of absence, I had dropped the link to BSW's Multi-Library Search Engine from my Bibliography: Search Engines page...

Helen Bond on Caiaphas

Helen Bond's new book on Caiaphas is now out. It is published by Westminster John Knox who have details here: Caiaphas: Friend of Rome ...

New Passion of the Christ Trailer

A new trailer has been released today for The Passion of the Christ . It's longer than previous versions (2 minutes) and you even catch...

Review of Gospel of John

There is a review, not ever so favourable, of The Gospel of John in the Star Tribune 's Movies section: The Gospel of John Despite the ...

More on the future of the megasites

Torrey Seland commented on the future for his pages, mine and others like them. I had responded here ; Torrey replied ; Jim Davila offers ...

Scholars: T

I've refreshed my Scholars: T page -- lots of wandering scholars' faculty pages and home pages. I've deleted the link to Tom T...

Mary of Magdala pages

Polebridge Press, the publishers of Karen King's recent book on Mary Magdalene , have a mini web site in connection with the book. It&#...

Filología Neotestamentaria

BSW announced today that they have made available on-line Vol 10 (1997) of the journal Filología Neotestamentaria (Vol 11, 1998 and Vol 12...

Pagels in National Catholic Reporter

National Catholic Reporter has an article / interview on Elaine Pagels, "Scholar stirs controversy with views on early Christian devel...

Memorisation Software Reviewed

Ken Penner on b-greek draws attention to the following web site which reviews Memorisation Software including several of those linked on my...

Mel Gibson interviewed on The Passion

Raymond Arroyo has interviewed Mel Gibson about The Passion of the Christ and this is to air in the USA on EWTN Global Catholic Network bet...

Now John Debney is to score The Passion of the Christ

I reported back in December that Lisa Gerrard was to score The Passion of the Christ ; this after earlier reports that it would be Jack Len...

Michael Gorman, Apostle of the Crucified Lord

New from Eerdmans is: Michael Gorman, Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and His Letters 624 pages; dimensio...

King James Bible 400 years old

There was a short feature on the Today programme this morning on the King James Bible. Here's a link to the audio (about three minutes...

Midwife of the Christian Bible

There's a new on-line article from the latest (Fall 2003) issue of Christian History that may be of interest: Midwife of the Christian ...

Tom Wright or Toby Ziegler?

Viewers of The West Wing may have noticed the resemblance between Toby Ziegler and the Bishop of Durham, N. T. Wright:    

How long . . . ?

On his Philo of Alexandria blog , Torrey Seland writes: Etana turns out to be an excellent site for students of Philo and his social world ...

Carlson review of Foster

Stephen Carlson is producing a fascinating review of Paul Foster, "Is it Possible to Dispense with Q?", NovT 45 (2003): 313-337 o...