Newsweek on Karen King and Mary Magdalene

There's a major feature in this week's Newsweek on Karen King, Mary Magdalene and Biblical women. You can view it all on-line here...

Elaine Pagels radio programme

On Friday there was a radio programme in Boston devoted to Elaine Pagels's Beyond Belief and you can listen to it here: On Point Radio:...

Galilee Unicode Font new version

Rod Decker has released version 0.6 of the Galilee Unicode Greek font. It covers classical as well as koine Greek; also included are NA27-...

AKMA, the Marriott Marquis and Richard Hays

In a recent blog entry , AKMA explains how much he likes the Marriott Marquis hotel, which I had described as "soulless". I think...

Geza Vermes in The Guardian

Geza Vermes wrote this week's "Face to Faith" in The Guardian . It's essentially a trailer for his new book and I don...

The Good Book, Programme 2

The second part of The Good Book , "Moses: The Great Law Giver", is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 tonight at 8 p.m. Listen live by go...

Explorator 6.30 and 6.31

Latest Explorator: Explorator 6.31 I was away last week so did not post a link to Explorator 6.30 but you can find it on the same page.

Tyndale Tech and Red Light Green

The latest Tyndale Tech email from David Instone Brewer arrived last week. As usual it is full of interesting tips and links (though also a...

More on the ETS Membership Challenge

Further to my earlier posting on the Open Theism vote at the Evangelical Theological Society last week, David Mackinder has sent me this li...

The Good Book

A new BBC radio series began while I was away on Sunday. It is called The Good Book and I have been lucky to be involved with this from th...

Gays and Marriage in Atlanta

One more story from the AAR/SBL in Atlanta has made it to the media. This is by Brian Basinger from Online Athens and features comments fro...

James Ossuary in Atlanta

Last year's big topic at the SBL was the James ossuary which was on display in Toronto. It was less of a hot topic in Atlanta, but it w...

Changed look

I've messed around a bit with the template to this blog. I was irritated by the fact that the main left margin in the body of the blog ...

Other news from Atlanta: Open theism vote

I had meant to blog on this when I arrived in Atlanta last Friday but didn't get time. One of the big stories in Atlanta came from th...

Other SBL Blogs

Don't forget to go to Hypotyposeis , Paleojudaica and AKMA's Random Thoughts for more and varied reflections on the SBL. I saw al...

SBL Monday and Tuesday

So to Monday morning. Bear in mind that the sessions I attended are a tiny fraction of what was on; at any given time there are multiple s...

SBL Sunday

I am not going to be able to remember the rest in order. Saturday sticks in my mind in a big way because of my own involvement. On Sunday ...

Return from Atlanta

I have now returned from Atlanta where I was attending the SBL Annual Meeting. I had thought that I would be able to blog throughout the co...

SBL Carg session

I went to two sessions at yesterday's SBL, the first the Computer Assisted Research Section. It was a good session, much better attende...

The KARGs

Jim Davila reflects (who is blogging through his television set in an Atlanta hotel, itself a kind of feat of science-fiction) on the CARG ...

All-in-One Biblical Resources Search

Ahead of a short presentation I am giving this afternoon in the CARG (Computer Assisted Research Section) here at the SBL Annual Meeting in...

Old article on Robert Gundry

This link is courtesy of Bible and Interpretation : Christianity Today have reproduced an article from back in 1984: CT Classic: Evangelic...

Simon Inscription

The big story emerging over the last few days is the inscription found on an ancient burial monument in Jerusalem mentioning Simon's nam...

Arrival in Atlanta

I've arrived safely in Atlanta and hope to be able to blog my way through the conference once I'm settled. So more later. I'v...

See you in Atlanta

I depart soon for Atlanta, Georgia for the SBL Annual Meeting. I look forward to seeing some of you there. I also hope to be able to provi...

All-in-One Biblical Resources Search at SBL

On Saturday I am giving a short talk in the Computer Assisted Research Section (which by quirk of history is abbreviated CARG) on my All-in-...

Whereabouts of Religion-Online

I haven't now been able to connect to Religion-online for some time; I know that one of my correspondents has had the same problem. I...

Ancient Jewish Village uncovered in Jerusalem

Also today on Paleojudaica , a link to this article from the Jerusalem Post : Ancient Jewish Village Uncovered in Jerusalem

Fitzmyer on the James Ossuary

This one flagged up by Jim Davila . It's from the Society of Jesus USA web site, a short article by Bronson Havard: Scholar says inscri...

Robert Derrenbacker's homepage

Thanks to Bob Derrenbacker for notifying me of his new homepage at Regent College, Vancouver, now adjusted on the Scholars: D page.

Last SBL Papers

Two more papers relating to the NT on the SBL Program Units Page , and then I think that's pretty much the lot (i.e. no more on the web)...

Josephus Seminar at SBL

One more from the SBL Program Units Page : Josephus Seminar 2003 Features the following full text papers, all PDF format: John M G Barclay, ...

Amy-Jill Levine on The Passion

There's a report here on Amy-Jill Levine's reservations about The Passion of the Christ based on a speech given on Sunday. The rep...

Tiny URL

A useful tip picked up via an entry on AKMA's blog -- the tiny URL site allows you to create a "tiny URL" instantly from any ...

How to strike out text in html

I asked if anyone knew how to strike out text in html; David Mackinder kindly supplies the information: "the code is simple (but coun...

Karen King radio programme

There is a radio programme featuring Karen King on The Connection which is based in Boston: Mary Magdalene Reconsidered That takes you to t...

SBL Semiotics and Exegesis section

I recently mentioned the SBL Program Units Page . Here's another section that has some papers available on the web for reading ahead o...

Jerusalem Shroud

Jim Davila draws attention to this article on the Jerusalem shroud: Discovery of Jesus-era shroud to be aired at UNC-Charlotte And he adds ...

Karen King on Mary

Another article on Karen King on Mary Magdalene, with a photo: Book probes Magdalene’s legacy Author cites ‘Gospel of Mary’ in portrayal of ...

Getting Streeter right

Stephen Carlson helpfully puts me right on Streeter on the Minor Agreements (see Goulder on the Minor Agreements ); the view that τίς ἐστι...

Explorator 6.29

Latest Explorator has been posted by David Meadows: Explorator 6.29

Gospel of John review

Reviews of the Gospel of John are beginning to come in now, this one from the Washington Post : 'The Gospel of John': A Good-Faith ...

Laupot follow-up

Eric Laupot has asked me to note that the follow-up to his article “Tacitus' Fragment 2: The Anti-Roman Movement of the Christiani and ...

More on Mary Magdalene

Also courtesy of Bible and Interpretation , a link to the Christian Science Monitor -- more on Karen King's new book: Who was Mary Magd...

Marcus Borg Interview

There's an interview with Marcus Borg on Beliefnet concerning a new book he has out called The Heart of Christianity : Why be Christian?...