Technorati Tag Post
I'm starting this list of technorati tags for ease of access in the future. After I redo my sidebar in the next couple of weeks, I'll incorporate it in an easy to find spot. I did the same thing over...
View ArticleJacob Aliet's Review of My Commentary on Mark
A good friend has reviewed my Commentary in detail and very usefully. Here is his review. I'm setting up as a permament web page as well. Review of Michael Turton's Historical Commentary on the Gospel...
View ArticleEkphrasis, Atwill, Isis, and the TF
About six months ago I summarized Joseph Atwill's arguments regarding the TF and its surrounding passages.Fundamentally, Atwill regards the two paragraphs immediately following the TF as parodies of...
View ArticleBible Math Textbook
From the humor category, Harper's Readings has some excerpts from this Biblical Precalculus textbook for youths in private Christian Schools, published by that center of academic excellence, Bob Jones...
View ArticleWhat is the Bible Literacy Project Really?
Recently the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) forum published a review of "The Bible and Its Influence," the new textbook which the Biblical Literacy Project is promoting for use in secondary...
View ArticleDSS, Physical Anthropology, and the NT Ivory Tower
Recently on the Bibilical Studies discussion list, ably hosted by Jim West (how can he do that AND have a life?), there was a discussion about how layman view scholars, and their interaction with the...
View ArticleHurtado, Segal, Kloppenborg Criteria Discussion at Slate
Mark Goodacre left a parting Xmas gift on his blog, a link to a discussion between scholars Larry Hurtado, John Kloppenborg, and Alan Segal about NT historical studies. Alan Segal commented:New...
View ArticleGibson on Mark 14: Was Jesus Killed in the Temple?
I finally got a minute to read Gibson's paper on the blasphemy charge in Mark 14, which he posted to the list a last week.In this essay Gibson argues that the writer of Mark intended to compare the...
View ArticleThe Gospel Hoax by Stephen Carlson
The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret MarkStephen C. CarlsonBaylor University Press, 2005, 151 pages"The way of testing it, therefore, was not to consider what the machine had read, but...
View ArticleMark 7:1-23
Back from celebrating Chinese New Year in Hsinchu to return to the discussion of Mark 7:1-23 on the NT Gateway blog. Goodacre was wondering about the problems translating the "parenthetical" comment at...
View ArticleBlogging Issues
I haven't been around here in a while, and it doesn't seem likely I'll have much chance to blog here more than once or twice a month, as my work schedule has increased dramatically, since my parents...
View ArticleEsther as Taiwanese Opera
A Taiwanese opera group has decided to stage the Jewish tale of Esther from the Christian Bible using Taiwanese opera.A rare combination of traditional Taiwanese opera and orchestral music with the...
View ArticleCFP: Christianity and China, J of Amer-E Asian Relations
Here's a fascinating topic combining Christianity with foreign affairs in a key global location:++++++++++++++++H-ASIA March 25, 2007Call for Articles: Special Issue of Journal of American-East Asian...
View Article*Creak* Letting some light in...
I've decided to re-open this blog over the next couple of months. So let's let a little light into this place with some pics from my ride last week up in Miaoli, the county north of Taichung city where...
View ArticleBible Argh from Newsweek
All over Facebook and Twitter is Newsweek's completely incompetent article on marriage and the Bible:First, while the Bible and Jesus say many important things about love and family, neither explicitly...
View ArticleWell, still not here yet
I was going to be posting here, but then a local county government gave me a great gig that has me traveling most of my off days down in southern Taiwan. Hope to see you all by the end of the month.
View ArticleDarrell Doughty on Tacitus Recovery
I was hunting for this page and found out it is no longer up at http://www.courses.drew.edu/sp2000/BIBST189.001/Tacitus.html So I thought I'd save it here, out of the cache. Thank all gods for the...
View ArticleNot yet....
Still trying to get going blogging here, but too much stuff going on right now.
View ArticleCanon SX260 HS Review
Well well. I've finished a careful reading of Doherty's Jesus: Neither God Nor Man. I've got Price's book on the problems of mythicism and Ehrman's new volume waiting for me to put eyes on them. Expect...
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