Goodacre

LATEST ARTICLES ( 191 )

• NT Pod 104: The Synoptic Translation Problem

  

  There are lots of Synoptic Problems! The latest episode of my podcast focuses on one of them, "The Synoptic Translation Problem." It investigates a problem in... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Mysteries of the Synoptic Gospels

  

  Hi everyone. I have been neglecting the NT Blog and the NT Pod for far too long because of the demands of the day job, and my frantic attempts actually to... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Resurrection of the NT Pod

  

  After spending a lot of time in university administrative jobs (Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department Chair, and so on), I find myself back in the... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Theodore J. (Ted) Weeden Obituary

  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) WeedenWeeden's Mark:... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Dr Laura Robinson's Crocheted Dolls

  

  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 hugely popular Twitte... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Is Mary, the Mother of Jesus at the Cross and the Tomb in Matthew?

  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, and 16.1. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Counting the Disciples

  Michael Goulder once said that New Testament scholars often substitute counting for thinking, and I confess to enjoying some counting myself. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Turin Shroud on the Sunday Programme

  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's Sunday Programme, an... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Talking About Jesus Films on the Sunday Programme

  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 the possibility of a new... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2023 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jesus' Activity in the Gospels: "only Some Three Weeks"?

  There is an idea attributed to B. H. Streeter (1874-1937) that attempts to articulate how much time Jesus' narrated ministry, in the canonical gospels,... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2022 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interview with Ariel Sabar on the NT Pod

  

  Over on my podcast, I enjoyed a conversation earlier today with Ariel Sabar, author of Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2020 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• "Tahime . . . She's True and Not Fake!"

  

  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 speculation. Every time... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2020 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

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

  

  Regular readers will know that I have posted many, many times over the years on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, whether breaking news, offering round-ups of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Trump and Fatigue

  

  Over the last twenty years or so, I have occasionally drawn attention to "the phenomenon of fatigue", according to which one can see an author making... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Letter from Edwin A. Abbott to Percival Gardner-Smith

  

  I was recently noodling around for some biographical information on Percival Gardner-Smith who is well known in the field of NT studies as the author of St... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2020 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Sourceomania

  

  Samuel Sandmel's invocation of the problems of "parallelomania" in 1961 has become legendary in the field, to the point of truism, misrepresentation and... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Morton Scott Enslin: the American Austin Farrer?

  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 and exciting, and when... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2019 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Similar Are the Synoptics, and How Do We Represent It?

  

  I have enjoyed the feedback, especially on twitter, from lots of people since I dusted down the blogging machine and reignited it earlier this week. I should... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2019 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Larsen's Challenge to Studying Synoptic Relations

  

  This is a second post on Matthew Larsen, Gospels Before the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) [First post here] in which I'd like to comment on... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2019 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Similar is Luke to Matthew? Reflections Stimulated by Larsen

  I have recently been enjoying reading Matthew Larsen's Gospels Before the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) and have been reflecting on elements in... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2019 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY