Happy New Year

The NT Gateway blog is now taking a break for a few days until the weekend. I would like to wish you a very happy new year and thanks for r...

The Good Book: Paul: Web Site

The web pages for the final programme of the BBC Radio series The Good Book have now been added: The Good Book: Paul It includes some excer...

The Independent on Tom Wright

It's all Tom Wright these days and according to yesterday's Independent , "The new Bishop of Durham has arrived with a bit of a...

BBC Religion News Review 2003

It's the time of year for news reviews; one that may be of interest to readers of this blog is the BBC Religion and Ethics News Review ...

Ancient Biography

Over on N. S. Gill's Ancient / Classical History blog is a link to a useful essay on Ancient Biography: Ancient Biography: Cornelius Ne...

Another Vermes Review

I've been noting reviews of Geza Vermes's new book, The Authentic Gospel of Jesus Christ as they appear (e.g. here ). The latest i...

Crossan on Matthew's Birth Narrative

Bible and Interpretation today flags up this article from Beliefnet by John Dominic Crossan: A Christmas Message From Matthew What was th...

Radio Programme on The Passion of the Christ

On Point radio, which is based in Boston, MA, USA, broadcast an interesting discussion of The Passion of the Christ on Friday. It feature...

Tom Wright on the Origins of Christmas

Tom Wright had an article in the Christmas Eve edition of The Times reflecting his irritation with people cleverly telling him that Christm...

The Good Book, Programme 6

It's the sixth and final part of The Good Book on BBC Radio 2 tonight. It's entitled Paul - The Founder of Christianity . You ca...

100 Greatest Musicals

Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar both featured in the 100 Greatest Musicals on Channel 4 this Christmas, Godspell at 72 and Jesus Chr...

Latest Explorator

The latest Explorator has been posted by David Meadows: Explorator 6.35

Happy Christmas

The NT Gateway blog is now taking a Christmas break, probably until the weekend. Wishing you a very happy Christmas.

More reviews of Vermes

Thanks to Helen-Ann Francis for pointing out that in this week's Times Literary Supplement Christopher Rowland reviews Geza Vermes, Lar...

Christmas TV

In the USA, Discovery have a day of repeats of NT related documentaries on Christmas day, three of which I was involved with either as a pa...

The Real Jesus Christ

While listening to BBC Radio FiveLive this morning, I caught a trail for The Real Jesus Christ . This is an hour long documentary introduc...

Gary Anderson reviews Wright

Also alerted in Bible and Interpretation , who are on top form today, is a review by Gary Anderson of Tom Wright's latest massive tome o...

Questions about the Nativity

This one alerted in Bible and Interpretation , an article by James Carroll in Boston.com News: Questions about the Nativity It aims to set o...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Someone over at SBL was working late last night and sent round the latest update from Review of Biblical Literature . Here are the NT relat...

Karen Armstrong reviews Geza Vermes

I referred recently to a feature on Geza Vermes in The Independent . Jim Davila blogs the review in The Guardian and now we can add a th...

No Ordinary Joe

There's a most entertaining article on Joseph in The Times by Waldemar Januszczak: Art: No Ordinary Joe The article is essentially abou...

Sir Frederic Bartlett - The War of the Ghosts

I caught this fascinating programme earlier today on Radio 4: Sir Frederic Bartlett – The War of the Ghosts This is another blog entry (see ...

Stylometry unravelling literary problems

Thanks to David Gentile on Synoptic-L for the link to this very interesting article by Erica Klarreich from Science News Online : Bookish M...

Word and World

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for drawing my attention to this journal: Word and World This quarterly journal of theology is based at Luther Semi...

Rod Mullen on The Expansion of Christianity

My colleague Rod Mullen has a new book just out from Brill. Details: The Expansion of Christianity: A Gazetteer of its First Three Centuri...

Comments on James Ossuary

Many readers will have seen this, but the consistent high quality of Stephen Carlson's Hypotyposeis blog is maintained in a fascinating...

The Good Book: Jesus

The fifth programme in the BBC Radio series The Good Book aired tonight (last night) at 8 p.m. If you missed it you can listen on-line . ...

Explorator 6.34

The latest Explorator has been posted by David Meadows Explorator 6.34 It includes a round-up of the latest on the James Ossuary.

Best of British Blogging

Nice article in last week's Guardian on some quality British weblogs: The best of British blogging

Geza Vermes in The Independent

There was an article on Geza Vermes in yesterday's Independent , referenced by Bible and Interpretation : Geza Vermes: A child of his ti...

Latin today

There's an enjoyable article in The Economist , taking its lead from the fact that The Passion of the Christ has Latin dialogue. One i...

New Testament on Google Print

I thought I'd try Google Print for New Testament titles. At the moment Print.Google.com New Testament brings up just two offerings, a v...

Print.Google.com

Google has been testing a new service which will search the texts of published books, thereby imitating and rivalling the recently launced s...

New Testament Studies

As Jim Davila blogged , the October edition of New Testament Studies is now available on-line, contents and abstracts for all and full text...

Who saw the Greek letters first?

I wrote up Stephen Goranson's report that "the Greek letters [on the Absalom tomb] were first noticed by an art history student,...

Pope and The Passion Update -- ADL Statement

Here's a fuller article on the Pope's viewing of The Passion of the Christ ; it's by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal : ...

Comments on Zechariah and Simeon inscriptions

Stephen Goranson makes some useful comments on Xtalk concerning the recent articles on the Zechariah and Simeon inscriptions including som...

Scholars: E

I've refreshed the Scholars: E page -- new URLs for Hans-Joachim Eckstein, Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans.

Zechariah inscription at "Absalom's Tomb"

A couple more items of interest on Paleojudaica , articles from the Christian Science Monitor and the Jerusalem Post on the discovery of t...

The Pope and the Passion

This article from the Washington Post reports on an alleged endorsement of The Passion of the Christ by the Pope ("It is as it was...

In Our Time on the Alphabet

In Our Time this morning focused on the origins of the alphabet; one of the contributors was Alan Millard whom I know from his Reading an...

Bart Ehrman on Fresh Air

Today on Fresh Air is an interview with Bart Ehrman. If you are in the US, Fresh Air is distributed via satellite to public radio station...

BSW developments

I've sometimes expressed my disappointment over the BSW: Biblical Studies on the Web site recently because a once fine site has been ba...

Understanding Ancient Greek Voice

This just announced on the b-greek list. Carl Conrad , Associate Professor Emeritus at Washington University, has posted a very useful new...

SBL Call for Papers

The call for papers for the SBL Annual Meeting 2004, San Antonio, Texas has gone on-line today: SBL Annual Meeting 2004: Call for Papers Clo...

SBL Forum Update

The SBL Forum has been updated with some fresh articles focusing on the topic of the moment, Mary Magdalene, with this blurb: Well-known ch...

Latest Tyndale Tech emails on-line

The two most recent Tyndale Tech emails from David Instone Brewer are now also on-line at: Tyndale Tech (November 2003) : Full text bibliogr...

Explorator 6.33

As usual on Sundays (well it's now Monday here, but for some of my readers it is still Sunday), the latest Explorator from David Meadows...

Time Magazine on Lost Gospels

Time Magazine this week has a feature on "Lost Gospels" with a nice cover story picture . You have to be a subscriber to read it...

Mark 14.65 and parallels

At the SBL Annual Meeting Synoptics Section a couple of weeks ago, Loveday Alexander responded to papers given by Richard Burridge, Mark Mat...

The Good Book Programme 4: Isaiah

It's the fourth programme in the series The Good Book tonight, 8 p.m. on BBC Radio 2, narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi. Listen live on the...

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford University Press has a new service to provide on-line full texts of certain books in its catalogue. If you are at a participating in...

Digging Back Toward Jesus

Jim Davila blogs this interesting article in the Washington Post . It is by Bill Broadway and features Craig Evans, Jonathan Reed, Hershel...

In Our Time on the Devil

In Our Time on Radio 4 yesterday morning had the Devil as its topic. Worth a listen if you didn't catch it: In Our Time In the Gospel...

Resource Pages for Biblical Studies update

Torrey Seland yesterday updated his pages; the additions are all on the Philo page : Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism is back

Some time ago the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism disappeared from the web. I removed all my links to it in June 2003. Th...

Lisa Gerrard

I reported that Lisa Gerrard is to score The Passion of the Christ ; Wieland Willker tells me that I should not express my ignorance on wh...

Sheffield Phoenix Press launched

In the autumn of 2001 Sheffield Academic Press became part of the Continuum publishing group . Continuum have also over the last couple of ...

Another fan site for The Passion of the Christ

I've often mentioned The Passion fan web site here; for a while I thought it was a clever means of providing official information abou...

Musical score for The Passion of The Christ

So who is scoring The Passion of the Christ ? A report today in Music from the Movies mentions a certain Lisa Gerrard: Lisa Gerrard to sco...

Peter Gabriel and The Passion of the Christ

One interesting element from the review just mentioned : Continuing his habit of working with the best cinematographers in the world, Gibson...

Harry Knowles and The Passion of the Christ

I commented the other day that I had no idea who Harry Knowles was. David Mackinder helpfully explains that "Harry Knowles is the wun...

Vatican views The Passion of the Christ

Officials at the Vatican were allowed a viewing of The Passion of the Christ at the weekend. Father Di Noia of the Doctrinal Congregation ...

Latest Review of Biblical Literature

The latest additions to the Review of Biblical Literature include: Bauckham, Richard Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospel...

Tyndale Tech and Theology Portal

David Instone-Brewer yesterday issued a follow-up to his latest Tyndale Tech email, this one drawing attention to more full-text availabili...

What is Mel Afraid Of?

Here's an odd article on The Passion of the Christ from MCN (Movie City Center) Notepad: What's Mel Afraid Of? The Passion of the C...

Biblical Studies Foundation

The Biblical Studies Foundation site has had a major redesign. They have also announced the second beta edition of the new NET Bible . Th...

Minor Updates

A couple of minor updates on the NT Gateway to report: new URL for VocabWorks on the Greek NT Gateway: Computer Software page and a new U...

The Good Book, Programme 3

The third programme in the series The Good Book was broadcast tonight at 8 p.m. on Radio 2. If you missed it, you can listen on-line , and...

Explorator 6.32

Latest version of Explorator posted by David Meadows: Explorator 6.32 Couldn't blog all day Sunday -- blogger seemed to be down.

Bibliography: General Helps

I have updated my Bibliography: General Helps page too. I have refreshed a couple of the links, deleted a moribund one, reorganised the pa...

BSW

I also commented the other day that I thought the Multi-Library Search at BSW had not been functioning for some time. Since then I've ...

Red Light Green again

I commented yesterday that one of the advantages of Theoldi is that it provides bibliography-ready citations. Since I've begun using...

The Passion of the Christ official website

The official web site for The Passion of the Christ has been launched. It has a new, shorter teaser trailer (though you can still see the ...

BiBIL

Stephen Carlson recently mentioned the BiBIL web site on his blog. This was demonstrated by Thomas Naef in the SBL Computer Assisted Resea...

Pirated version of The Passion of Christ

In a piece on Pirated Movies , the LA Times mention that: The FBI began investigating the unauthorized release to the New York Post of Mel ...

Latest Biblica on-line

Biblica 84/4 (2003) is now available here: Biblica 84 (2003) (scroll down for Fasc. 4) It includes the following NT articles: Christoph G....

Latest Biblical Theology Bulletin

Further to my previous blog entry on the improved LookSmart's Find Articles site, they have uploaded the latest (Fall 2003) edition of ...

Find Articles improves site

FindArticles.com has been transformed -- and greatly for the better. Its new name is LookSmart's Find Articles. Everything is at the s...

Willem-Jan de Wit on 4Q521

There's been some discussion of 4Q521 on the Xtalk list recently and this link has just come up: Expectations and the Expected One: 4Q52...

Magnus Zetterholm

Thanks to Magnus Zetterholm for pointing out his new web page to me; it's now added to my Scholars pages under "Z" and that...

Latest on The Passion of the Christ

This article from Reuters: Gibson delays Vatican screening of Jesus film And this by Kathryn Jean Lopez on the National Review Online : Mel ...

Theology Portal

There is a fine new resource from Denmark called the Theology Portal. It describes itself in this way: The Theology Portal gives access to ...

Jesus film

I was delighted to see that the version of Jesus shown on BBC2 yesterday and today was the international version and not the CBS version; ...

Biblical Interpretation

Jim Davila blogged this the other day; I'm behind the times. Here's the contents breakdown for the current Biblical Interpretatio...

SBL Review of Biblical Literature

New in the Review of Biblical Literature : Eve, Eric The Jewish Context of Jesus' Miracles Reviewed by Douglas Geyer Levine, Amy-Jill an...