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...

The Messiah: In Early Judaism and Christianity

Latest from Fortress: Scholars Discuss The Messiah In Early Judaism and Christianity Minneapolis (November 9, 2007)—In The Messiah , leading...

Bible and Justice Conference

From the British New Testament Society list: --- The 2008 Conference on Bible and Justice will bring together scholars from around the world...

H. Benedict Green Obituary, and Farrerians in Oxford

I commented on the sad death of H. Benedict Green in September. The Church Times recently had an obituary: Obituary: FR BENEDICT GREEN CR...

SBL Biblioblogger Lunch mini-podcast

Chris Brady has uploaded a seven minute podcast of everyone introducing themselves at the bibliobloggers lunch at the SBL last week, Is this...

More SBL Reflections, especially on Presenting Papers

Over on the Forbidden Gospels Blog , April DeConick weighs in with her SBL Odds and Ends . April's reflections are helpful and interest...

Bibliobloggers and the SBL Forum

At the SBL Forum Board Meeting at this year's SBL, we had some discussion of the role that can be played by bloggers like us. The SBL ...

Christian Origins SBL Bauckham Thread

The strange thing about e-lists is that they can lie dormant for months and then spring into life quite unexpectedly. The Christian Origins...

SBL Assorted Reflections

A few thoughts about the SBL Annual Meeting: (1) It's nice to see Duane Smith joining my campaign to have more people making presentatio...

SBL Monday

As well as the usual meetings of different kinds, I went to the session on Paul and Empire featuring John Barclay and Tom Wright. This was ...

SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, Sunday afternoon

Sunday afternoon: having left the bibliobloggers lunch, without eating, at 12.40, I went to present in the Computer Assisted Research Secti...

SBL: Arrival Home

I arrived at about midnight last night after the kind of journey that reminded me of the lengths of journey I used to have flying back to th...

SBL Room Sizes

On Ancient Hebrew Poetry , John Hobbins writes: It is miserable to give a paper to an audience of 30 scattered in the back of a long space w...

SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, Sunday morning

Sunday. 7am. University of Birmingham breakfast reception. It was a great pleasure to meet lots of my old colleagues including some I had...

SBL: Journey Home

It turned out that I had very limited time to use the blogging machine during the SBL Annual Meeting, so I will write up my diary on my jour...

Mark-Q Overlaps VI: The Direction of Dependence

This is the sixth and final post in my current series on the Mark-Q Overlaps (so-called), in which I would like to build on the issue of the...

SBL Annual Meeting I

Along with many other of the bibliobloggers, I am here in San Diego at the SBL Annual Meeting. I haven't had any time to blog yet, but ...

The Future of the New Testament Gateway II

This is the second of two posts on the future of the New Testament Gateway ( part one here ), which I am using to summarise and reflect on m...

Mark-Q Overlaps V: the degree of verbatim agreement

This is the fifth in my current series of posts on the Mark-Q Overlaps (so-called), in which I would like to make a new point about the degr...

Mark-Q Overlaps IV: Back to the Continuum

This is the fourth in my current series of posts on the Mark-Q Overlaps (so-called). In this post, I respond to a second point of critique ...

Mark-Q Overlaps III: Minor Agreements between Mark and Luke

This is now the third post in the current series on Mark-Q Overlaps, in which I would like to respond to comments from Christopher Tuckett i...