new blog and a[nother] response to DeConick

Few places in this world—either real or virtual—are as irrelevant as my blogroll. So it may come as no surprise that Doug Chaplin has no idea he's been added to it. But I recommend his [newest] blog, including his introductory response to April DeConick's "Creating Jesus" series. Astute Verily Verily readers (both of you) will recognize some of his comments as resonating with my own. Welcome [back], Doug.

Zondervan blog

A team from Zondervan Academic has just started a new blog, Koinōnia (HT: Thanks to Michael Bird for announcing this over on ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ). I don't typically announce new blogs, but their first post (other than the obligatory "first post") begins a new series, "Monday with [Bill] Mounce," which has a short discussion on some aspect of the Greek New Testament (today's post considers the phrase εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως [eis hypokoēn pisteōs; "for (?) the obedience of faith"; Rom. 1.5]). For those of you in the first stages of your Greek studies, you might want to check out this series when you can. I've also provided a link to this series under "Greek Resources" (on the right sidebar).