Xavier-Léon Dufour Obituary

Tomorrow's Times has an obituary of Xavier-Léon Dufour who died on 13 November, aged 95. Xavier-Léon Dufour Liberal scholar who brought...

Tyndale Tech Goes Blog!

I am delighted to see David Instone-Brewer finally getting assimilated to the blogosphere: Tyndale Tech Electronic resources for Biblical St...

Nativity Story Review back online

I complained recently that my review of The Nativity Story had vanished from the SBL Forum in its reorganisation. I was happy to hear to...

Witness

It's all happening at the BBC at the moment. The production with the working title of The Passion is currently being edited ahead of i...

Liverpool Nativity: Overnight news

There is some early coverage of the Liverpool Nativity . The Liverpool Echo has an article and pictures: City in spotlight as thousands tu...

Liverpool Nativity: Comments

I watched The Liverpool Nativity and found it a laid back, enjoyable, refreshing hour's viewing. It was broadcast live from Liverpool o...

Paul of Tarsus (1960): more details

Over on Bible Films Blog Matt Page comments on my recent posts on Paul of Tarsus and Jesus of Nazareth . He mentions a comment on his ear...

Liverpool Nativity

Tonight on BBC3, live, was the Liverpool Nativity . I can't wait to see this one, but it is looking like it will be tomorrow before I g...

No Other Gospel - Nick Perrin

The Fall 2007 issue of Christian History and Biography features an article of interest by Nicholas Perrin: No Other Gospel Despite the app...

Jesus of Nazareth (BBC, 1956)

So, have you ever seen the TV series Jesus of Nazareth ? No, not that series, but the one made twenty years earlier by the BBC? Me neithe...

More on Paul of Tarsus (BBC, 1960)

Earlier this week I discussed a forgotten Bible film called Paul of Tarsus , which starred Patrick Troughton , and was broadcast by the BBC ...

Harvard Papyri Online

This is definitely worth a second mention: on Evangelical Textual Criticism , Peter Head writes: The Houghton Library at Harvard have begun ...

73% of Britons know where Jesus was born

First Followers points to a survey in today's Daily Telegraph that attempts to show how ignorant Brits are about the Nativity Story: B...

Students should use Wikipedia, says its creator

This one, from BBC News, is likely to generate a bit of comment: Students 'should use Wikipedia' By Alistair Coleman Wikipedia found...

April DeConick's New York Times article causes a stir

April DeConick's Gospel Truth , published in The New York Times earlier this week is a model of how to write a clear, informative op-ed...

Unofficial Biblical Studies Carnival Post

On Metacatholic , Doug Chaplin has a great little unofficial Biblical Studies Carnivalette , which just goes to show that non-canonical text...

Paul of Tarsus (1960), starring Patrick Troughton

I posed a trivia question yesterday , "Which of the ten doctors also played the apostle Paul?" Some of the suggestions in comment...

BBC Passion in the News

Following on from yesterday's press release , lots of today's papers have picked up on the news about BBC's Passion drama (co-pr...

BBC / HBO Passion Latest

On Bible Films Blog , Matthew Page got to this before I did, but today the BBC put out a press release on its Passion production which is to...

Trivia Question: Doctor Who and the Apostle Paul

A trivia question for you: which of the ten doctors also played the apostle Paul?

Witness - Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke

Thanks to Michael Thompson for alerting me to this interesting broadcast coming soon on Radio 4. Mike was a consultant on the project: Witn...

Biblical Theology Bulletin, Winter 2007

FindArticles have made available several book reviews from the latest Biblical Theology Bulletin (free for all): Biblical Theology Bulletin...

Online articles on electronic editions by Peter Robinson

Over on ITSEE News , there's an announcement of two new articles on its Online Resources page: Current Directions in the Making of Digi...

Dirt, Greed and Sex: Revised Edition

Another new one from Fortress (with apologies for slight delay in posting): -- Desire, Purity, and Pollution — New Testament Sexual Ethics i...

Adela Yarbro Collins on Mark

I am a little late on this one but as I gradually work through the backlog, it's one not to miss: --- Fortress Press Releases Hermeneia ...

Review of Biblical Literature

Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading. It's good to see another of these more extensive r...

The Passion of Jesus and the Passion of Women

Latest from Fortress: -- Barbara Reid Examines the Passion of Jesus and the Passion of Women Minneapolis (November 12, 2007)—Discussions of ...

Court on Crossley

Tomorrow's Church Times (it's still today in America though it's already tomorrow in England) features a short review by John C...

How to Give an Academic Talk

The question of how to present papers is a regular one here and it has recently resurfaced ( More SBL Reflections, especially on Presenting...

Review of Biblical Literature latest

I have fallen behind with the Review of Biblical Literature announcements recently, so here in one post are all the ones I have missed under...

Pheme Perkins, Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

I am grateful to Eerdmans for a copy of the following: Pheme Perkins, Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels In this book respected New Testam...

HarperCollins Visual Guide to the Bible

Jim West has been blogging this, but I wanted to add my own comment, not least given that a copy arrived in my pigeonhole earlier this week...

Bible and Critical Theory Latest

Latest Bible and Critical Theory posting (sorry, I'm a few weeks late) from the SBL. --- The Bible and Critical Theory Volume: 3, Number...