Jesus in Cultural Complexity
Via a very pleasant time at St Andrews, it's time for another installment of the Olso based project, Jesus in Cultural Complexity. All the details and links can be found here. The topic/title of this...
View ArticleJohn Hobbins, Jesus in an Age of Terror and imperialism
UPDATE: Here is John Hobbins' bizarre response. I know, I know, why bother and all that...the advice various people have given (off blogs as well as on) is right, I really shouldn't (see John Lyons'...
View ArticleDilettante Hobby Horse
This blog has been mentioned a couple of times: Dilettante Hobby Horse! Like the special post on Wrong's blog, 'all wacky comments on your blogs are encouraged to be dumped in the comments section on...
View ArticleChris Zeichmann on Jesus in an Age of Terror
Chris Zeichmann has given a very detailed summary and review of Jesus in an Age of Terror. I am particularly grateful to Chris, not least because he was very complimentary. He has also engaged in a way...
View ArticleJesus in an Age of Terror (N. America)
It seems as if Jesus in an Age of Terror might be more easily available to those in N. America via Oxbow/David Brown, the US distributor for Equinox.
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'I am not a man...I am Cantona'; or football/soccer films to watch
Two flms relating to football are forthcoming and look a little better than some of the previous ones (as Peter Bradshaw put it, 'an under-reported development in cinema is how football is now being...
View ArticleEABS Graduate Symposium, 19th-21st June 2009
Should've publicised this a while back... Anyway, I understand there are still a couple of places left and it looks like a very good idea to me. I know there will be a combination of the usual academic...
View ArticleSpecial or General?
I refer of course to the SBL Forum piece Michael Bird with (q: what's the difference between 'with' and 'and' in a partnership?) Craig Keener and much discussed on blogs. I have nothing to add on...
View ArticleNT Wrong interview with Frances Flannery
Thanks to NTW for this:Interview between NTWrong and Frances Flannery, founder of Golem: Journal of Religion and Monsters http://www.golemjournal.org/ June 2009.Q. First up - I see the Journal's last...
View ArticleBNTC 2009
The abstracts for some of the Seminar Papers and all of the Short Papers for BNTC 2009 are up on the website. The Jesus seminar abstracts will be up soon but here is an exclusive...The Lukan...
View ArticleNot a Conspiracy Theory
As everyone no doubt now knows the old debate on gender and blogging has re-emerged with many, perhaps most, claiming their liberal credentials. Just one point general point: the idea of conspiracy...
View ArticleDunedin wheels out the big guns...
Steph Fisher and James Harding have joined the Dunedin School.
View ArticleEthics in the Bible?
Philip Davies' has published the essay 'Are There Ethics in the Hebrew Bible?' at Bible and Interpretation. Here's an extract:There are various systems determining human behavior. The best known...
View ArticleMore on gender and blogging
One reason why some people might not be overly keen on the ways in which some of the discussion (and I have no one in particular in mind here - just some general comments) over gender and...
View ArticleA question...
The phrase 'very Jewish' (or the like) is very common in NT studies. What does it mean?
View ArticleDelay
Obviously things have been incredibly busy but it seems as if Geoff Hudson filled the vacuum...
View ArticleSheffield and some odd comments attributed to BW3
Many things have been said about the situation at Sheffield and many, many nice things. Predictably enough, let's focus on the negative... In a recent Christianity Today article there were a couple of...
View ArticleMore of the same from BW3
Well it seems that BW3 did say those weird and inaccurate things about Sheffield. It's got a little weirder and we get more too. He's now added this (notice the lack of engagement with the questions...
View ArticleYet more from BW3!
Some more bizarre comments from BW3 on Sheffield in response to Steph Fisher:The issue isn't hiring someone on the basis of their faith especially if they do not have the credentials and the critical...
View ArticleSupport Lloyd Pietersen and the future of the discipline
I will simply cut and paste Mark Goodacre's post which I fully endorse:Lloyd Pietersen and the University of Gloucestershire: Action needed...now another British university department is similarly...
View ArticleRBL, History, Historical Criticism, Postmodernism, and Why We All Agree on...
I’m going try and enter this ongoing debate over ‘postmodernism’ versus ‘historical criticism’ by way of first defending myself (it’s not the only reason I blog but...) and then moving on to points...
View ArticleA Decade in...NT/Biblical Studies!
Reviews of the year and decades are common in TV discussions of pop music and TV and are often cheap and nasty (though there are exceptions). So, you might argue that decades are just constructs etc...
View ArticleJim West's Blog - An Obituary
The whole episode of the demise of Jim West's blog took me a little by surprise. When the link didn't work I wondered what was going on and I found out he was was bored with blogging, as he has...
View ArticleReal men don’t email frequently: Stephan Huller and a new twist on blogging...
There has been a weird blog dispute over Stephan Huller not taking down a private email sent by Maurice Casey. Stephan has gone on the rampage since being asked by Maurice’s PhD student Stephanie...
View ArticleAll things bright and beautiful?
Whilst reading this recent piece in the Guardian by John Milbank and Philip Blond, and brought to our attention by Roland Boer, I was, for some reason, reminded of that famous hymn, All Things Bright...
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