In yesterday's mail I received an examination copy of David A. deSilva's new book, The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude  ...

According to their website , the current issue of The Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha  is still the December 2010 issue. However...

I have assigned a selection of readings from Plutarch's Moralia (the Quaestiones romanae et graecae ) and from Seneca's Epistles  (...

I am finishing up Steve Mason's book, Josephus and the New Testament  (second edition; Peabody, MA: 2003). This may be one of the best b...

I enjoyed this paragraph on Paul's hearing before Festus and Herod Agrippa II, narrated in Acts 25–26. Mason's book overall is very ...

I've been reading through Plutarch's whirl-wind explication of Roman culture in Roman Questions  ( Moralia  IV; LCL 305). One of Plu...

As part of the orientation program to our in-coming MA New Testament students, I give a presentation entitled, "The Nature and Expectat...

I've assigned Steve Mason's helpful book, Josephus and the New Testament  (Second edition; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003), for my W...