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• 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

• Favourite -- and Least Favourite -- Jesus Films

  Every couple of years, I teach a course on Jesus in Film at Duke. Last time I taught the course, I ran a fun poll at the end in which I asked students "What is... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Further Response to Alan Garrow

  I am grateful to Alan Garrow for responding to my post on Garrow's Flaw (details and links here) over on Bart Ehrman's blog.I had pointed out that Garrow's mode... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Review of The Star by Emily Waples

  

  It's fun to be teaching a course on Jesus in Film when a new Jesus film comes out! The Star (dir. Timothy Reckardt) was released in November in time for the... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Garrow's Flaw

  Over on Bart Ehrman's blog, there has been some fun relating to the Synoptic Problem. A commenter promised $1,000 to Prof. Ehrman's blog's charities if he... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Early Christianity Position at Duke

  I am happy to be able to post the following announcement of a position in Early Christianity in our department at Duke:--The Department of Religious Studies... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Mark Mattison's Gospels.net

  I am grateful to Andrew Bernhard for sending over news of a change in his website Gospels.net. He posted the following message on Labor Day:Thank you to all... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• "Say It with Awe!" The Apocryphal John Wayne

  

  Twelve years ago (Say it with awe; Say it with awe update), I blogged about the legendary John Wayne story, in which the Duke, playing the role of the... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Favourite Jesus Film

  It's the beginning of a new academic year at Duke and this semester I am teaching my undergraduate course on Jesus in Film for a second time. I am hoping to blo... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY