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A Splendid Resource on Greek Epigraphy 23 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
In the course of preparing a paper for a symposium in Oslo in late September (my paper on references to Christian symbols in 2nd/3rd century Christian writers), I’ve come across a book that is a valua...
A Future for NT Studies? 21 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
From time to time it’s well for any field of scholarly activity to step back and try for some perspective from which to assess where things have been, where they are, and where they might be heading. ...
Free Commentary 19 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
I have been alerted to a limited-time freebee for users/owners of the Logos Bible software: They’re making available a free e-copy of my commentary on Mark. Here’s the offer (their wording): Until ...
Greek NT with Apparatus for Phones/Tablets 18 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
Some time back I mentioned the publication of the 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek NT (which is the standard hand-edition for scholarly use). Well, the people at Olivetree.com (who specialize i...
More on Identifying Expertise 16 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
In a posting in July (here) I offered advice, particularly for “general” readers, on how to assess proffered claims in books and on web sites in the area of NT & Christian origins. I’ve recently come...
PTS Puts Books Online 15 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
The Princeton Theological Seminary Library has recently made available online full texts of some 80,000 volumes, which I presume are now out-of-print works, but still valuable for certain research pur...
“Zombie Claims” and Jesus the “Zealot” 15 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
One of the things variously amusing and annoying is the re-appearance of ideas and claims in my own area of expertise as if something new, something suppressed (e.g., by us scholars supposedly) and re...
Fun with N-Gram 14 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
A couple of years ago I mentioned the “n-gram” facility available from Google that allows one to search for usage of words or phrases in all the books digitized by Google (to date, ca. 5.2 million) di...
“A Polite Bribe”: A Few Observations 14 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
Rob Orlando graciously sent me a link to permit me a private (second) viewing of “A Polite Bribe”, which my wife and I enjoyed last night (via my laptop). It bears viewing a second time, and I reiter...
“A Polite Bribe?”: Paul and the Jerusalem Collection 13 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
One of the most important projects of the Apostle Paul has often been neglected in scholarly treatments of him and his mission: Paul spent several years and considerable effort in organizing a financ...
