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• Q, Doctor Who and the Difference Between "lost" and "hypothetical"

  

  Regular readers will know that I am not averse to finding an excuse to talk about the rich potential for analogies between scholarship on Christian origins and... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jimmy Carter, Jesus and "the Matthew Effect"

  

  I have discussed the Matthew effect here before whereby a a piece of research, an idea, a quotation, a story gets associated with a more famous, more prominent... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Candida Moss Takes on Bill O'Reilly

  This is so impressive. Three cheers to Professor Candida Moss, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Notre Dame University! Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Was Jesus the First Person to Tweet?

  From my room on Toronto, I caught on CBS news this morning Cardinal Ravasi's claim that Jesus was the first person to tweet. His sermons, the cardinal said, wer... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• York Christian Apocrypha Symposium 2013

  I am on my way to the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium 2013 in Toronto. Today (Thursday) is arrival day for the speakers, but the conference gets going on... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How Accurate is That Replica, and Why Does It Matter?

  

  After discussions of the Talpiot Tombs resumed recently in the blogs (see James McGrath, Talpiot Tomb Latest and Talpiot Tomb Representation and Rhetoric), I... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Philip Esler Appointment at the University of Gloucestershire

  News of Philip Esler's appointment at the University of Gloucestershire: University announces new Portland Chair in New Testament Studies The University of... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Q and Q Reading the Critical Edition of Q!

  

  Many thanks to AKMA for for this one. I had said: "Anyway, I love this cartoon in which those two famous Qs read the British magazine Q. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Q is for . . . . Q and Q Reading Q

  

  We reached the stage of my New Testament Intro class today when we were looking at the question of Q. It's tough to teach because one has to explain to puzzled... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• NT Pod 66: Oral Tradition and the Game of "Telephone"

  

  It's been far too long since we've had an NT Pod! I've put out a new episode tonight, NT Pod 66: Oral Tradition and the Game of "Telephone". Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Response to Simcha Jacobovici's "Pants on Fire"

  I am grateful to Simcha Jacobovici for taking the time to respond to my blog post A Tale of Two Replicas in which I detailed the differences between the two... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Tale of Two Replicas

  

  The recent renewed discussion of the Talpiot Tombs, brought about by Simcha Jacobovici's post featuring an interview with Professor Émile Puech of the École... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Émile Puech's Statement on the Talpiot Tomb Images

  I expressed some surprise over Prof. Émile Puech's apparent endorsement of Simcha Jacobovici's claims about the Talpiot Tombs on Thursday in a post headed Simch... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Simcha Jacobovici and the Talpiot Tomb Again!

  

  I have spent a lot of time, some would say wasted a lot of time, engaging critically with claims made by Simcha Jacobovici in relation to two tombs excavated... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Simcha Jacobovici and the Talpiot Tomb Again!

  

  I have spent a lot of time, some would say wasted a lot of time, engaging critically with claims made by Simcha Jacobovici in relation to two tombs excavated... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Simon Schama's Misreading of Paul

  

  I've greatly enjoyed the first couple of episodes of Simon Schama's Story of the Jews currently airing on BBC2. Schama is a wonderful story-teller and he knows... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How It Used to Look!

  

  This is how it used to look back then (or at least as far back as I can get it on the wayback machine). I must admit that I rather liked the old design, which... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• NT Blog's Ten Year Anniversary!

  Happy birthday to me! The NT Blog is ten years old today. Its first post in what was then called "The NT Gateway Blog" went out on September 2 2003, Welcome to... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Art of Writing Negative Book Reviews

  A couple of years ago, I asked whether Paul Foster's review of Bartosz Adamczewski's Q or Not Q? might qualify as The most negative book review in our area? Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Death of Paul W. Meyer

  

  More sad news. I was sorry to hear through Michael Gorman just now (on Fb) of the death of Paul W. Meyer. Princeton Theological Seminary has released a notice... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY