BMCR review of Ehrman

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.03.53 has a glowing review of Bart Ehrman's new Loeb Apostolic Fathers : Bart D. Ehrman (trans.), The Ap...

Michael Lerner on The Passion

The International Herald Tribune yesterday published the following article: Mel Gibson revives an old message of hate... A Jewish View Mich...

Gibson and DeMille

An interesting article appears in WorldNetDaily: The power of 'The Passion' Joseph Farah Farah looks at the precedent for this film...

Passion of the Christ Prequel

Beliefnet has exclusive excerpts from the script of Mel Gibson's next film project, which until this morning has been kept under wraps....

New URL for Classical Greek Fonts and Utilities

I've adjusted the URL for Matthew Robinson's Classical Greek Fonts and Utilities on my Greek fonts page. Thanks to Wim Pelt for f...

Currents in Theology and Mission

Another addition to my Journals page is: Currents in Theology and Mission The full text of volumes from 2002-3 is freely available at the F...

Orion Center Reorganisation

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for pointing out this useful reorganisation of the Orion site and specifically its Symposia author index which pro...

Semeia

I have updated the links to Semeia on my Journals page. Full on-line versions free to all users of issues 79-81 and 83-91 (PDF) are avail...

The Passion of the Christ -- the debate

BBC Manchester and Online are holding a live debate about The Passion of the Christ tonight at 22:00--01:00 BST and you can join in. Detai...

Interfaith dialogue on The Passion

Here's one for American readers, from the Religion Press Release Service: INTERFAITH DIALOGUE ON HALLMARK CHANNEL "LIGHT ON: GIBSON...

Manila Times review of The Passion of the Christ

A positive review in the Manila Times : The passion of Mel Gibson By Dennis Ladaw Mel Gibson succeeds in conveying the ugliness of violence....

The Passion of the Christ -- One African American's View

Thanks to Charity Dell for sending this over and for permission to reproduce it here: Everyone viewing THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST sees this f...

Vermes and Wright on anti-Semitism

Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this link to Sunday Sequence which features a discussion of the Passion of the Christ and has 5-10 minute i...

BBC Religion and Ethics for Easter

BBC Religion and Ethics have provided a summary of their programming over the Easter period, which may be of interest to some, mainly UK rea...

Passion of the Christ round-up

It's time for another Passion of the Christ round up. The Guardian reports on its UK success: Passion crowns UK box office Mel Gibso...

Mark Chancey on The Passion of the Christ

Thanks to Mark Elliott for this latest on the Bible and Interpretation Essays on the Passion , now building up to a very valuable collection...

Turin Shroud documentary

Channel 4 is showing a documentary on the Turin Shroud tonight at 9 pm, part of the Secrets of the Dead series: Series in which forensic sc...

Iwan Russell-Jones on The Passion of the Christ

I was going to blog this article from Ship of Fools on Friday (see previous entry) but decided it needed to be dignified with its own separ...

Still more Passion

Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this one from BBC News: Passion ignites world audiences The Passion of the Christ, which has aroused controve...

Neusner on the Passion

Thanks to Mark Elliott for this; Bible and Interpretation have added another article to their Passion of the Christ essays page: A Judaic...

Passion of the Christ UK release today

The Passion of the Christ is released in the UK today. The film has prompted a discussion on BBC Radio FiveLive this morning, underway as...

Guardian Review of the Passion of the Christ

I obviously spoke too soon earlier. Peter Bradshaw's review of The Passion of the Christ is published in this morning's Guardian ...

British New Testament Conference 2004

I am just sending out the invitation for the British New Testament Conference 2004. If you are not on the mailing list, the invitation is ...

A Birmingham chaplain's view on The Passion of the Christ

Thanks to Michael Pahl for this very negative reaction to The Passion of the Christ from a fellow Brummie: Scandalous travesty of the gospe...

The Independent asks British viewers what they think

And today's Independent asks a handful of viewers what they they think of The Passion of the Christ : 'For some it will be an evang...

Times review of The Passion of the Christ

Today's Times has a very positive review of The Passion of the Christ . Given Mark Kermode's positive review in The Observer , it...

More Passion, more!

BBC1's Breakfast News this morning had a feature on The Passion of the Christ presented by Tom Brook, the American film correspondent. ...

Bible Mysteries: Disciples

Thanks to Melisso Quero at the BBC for this update on the Bible Mysteries television series. The next episode is to air on BBC2 at 12.40 p...

Happy birthday Paleojudaica

Jim Davila's Paleojudaica blog is a year old today (well, now yesterday). Many happy returns. I began reading Paleojudaica from the b...

Channel 4 programme on Gibson

Spotted a preview tonight for a programme on Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ on Sunday, 9 pm, Channel 4, Mel Gibson - God's Le...

Second Passion of the Christ death

News of another death while someone was viewing The Passion of the Christ . Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this link from BBC News: Pastor ...

Whither goest Mel?

This article from the Los Angeles Times is slightly off topic, as it were, but it may be of interest to some and has one or two great lines...

Re-release Brian!

Here's news to brighten up everyone's day. Monty Python's Life of Brian is to be re-released in the USA (and let's hope el...

Jesus film quiz

The Guardian has a nice Jesus films quiz to celebrate the arrival in the UK of The Passion of the Christ : Christ in the Movies Christ in t...

Hypotyposeis and Synoptic Problem web page

Stephen Carlson informs me that his Hypotyposeis blog and Synoptic Problem web page will be down for a few days but due to return on April 1...

Passion of the Christ UK previews from today

The Passion of the Christ begins two days of preview screenings in the UK today ahead of its national release on Friday: The Passion of the...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

Latest SBL Review of Biblical Literature reviews (I'm listing the NT ones): van Aarde, Andries Fatherless in Galilee: Jesus as a Child ...

Beliefnet's Passion material goes "premium"

I'm sorry to see tonight that Beliefnet have removed a lot of the material from their excellent site about The Passion of the Christ an...

The Passion: They know not what they watch

Thanks to David Mackinder for the link to this well-written article on The Passion of the Christ from the Chronicle of Higher Education ...

University email and web back again

My university email address is now working again and the university web sites all appear to be back on-line.

Mark Nanos on The Passion of the Christ

And here's one not to miss. Thanks to Mark Nanos for sending this over: The Missing Logic that Threatens the Jewish Other: [PDF] A Re...

Still more reviews

In a comment to an earlier post , Darko points out that the Rotten Tomatoes site has over 200 reviews of The Passion of the Christ : The Pa...

Laksamana article on The Passion

An interesting and provocative piece today on The Passion of the Christ in Laksamana.net: The Politics and Economics Portal , with the now ...

Birmingham email and web down

My Birmingham email address appears to be down along with all the Birmingham University web sites. If you need to get in touch, please use ...

Passion of the Christ Reviews

IMDb now has an absolutely massive list of reviews for The Passion of the Christ , at the moment 156 and counting. These are collected from...

More Passion news

Thanks to Helenann Hartley for this from CNN: Spielberg: Won't comment on 'Passion' First person he'll talk to will be Gibso...

Sunday programme on The Passion of the Christ

Sunday this morning (BBC Radio 4) kicked off with a short discussion of The Passion of the Christ ahead of its UK release this week. Two ...

Katha Pollitt article on The Passion of the Christ

On Paleojudaica , Jim Davila comments on the "Mel Gibson as holocaust denier meme" in the following article: The Protocols of Mel ...

Mamet, a Rabbi, a Vicar and a Priest on The Passion of the Christ

Yesterday's Guardian has a piece on The Passion of the Christ ahead of its UK release next week: Passion players Mel Gibson's The...

Livius -- Articles on Ancient History

Thanks to Holger Szesnat for pointing out this excellent site: Livius - Articles on Ancient History By Jona Lendering This is a series of cl...

Passion Plays and the Passion

Christian History has a piece on the the medieval Passion plays and how an understanding of them informs one's appreciation of The Pass...

Jerusalem Post essay on Who Killed Jesus?

Thanks to Gail Dawson for this one from the Jerusalem Post , which I am noting a little belatedly -- it's a week old -- butr I didn'...

London Institute for Contemporary Christianity Event

Thanks to David Mackinder for this link: Passion Play Monday 05 of April, 2004 at 6.45pm - A special evening to discuss the significance of ...

ReJesus on the Passion

To coincide with the UK release of The Passion of the Christ, the reJesus web site has set up some materials: Expressions: The Passion Movie...

Passion of the Christ UK release

Although the official UK release of The Passion of the Christ is listed for March 26 (Friday), a quick glance around local cinemas confirms...

Passion of the Christ round-up

On Germany's reaction to the film ahead of its release there later this week, this BBC News story (thanks to Helenann Hartley and Bible ...

Latest "Scholarly Smackdown", Witherington

Ben Witherington III's response has now been added in Round 5 of the Scholarly Smackdown on The Passion of the Christ : Round 5: Ben Wi...