I just finished Thomas  and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas 's Familiarity with the Synoptics  (Eerdmans, 2012), Mark Goodacre's ...

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

I'm reading Mark Goodacre's Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas 's Familiarity with the Synoptics  (Eerdmans, 2012). I...

At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, I have avoided purchasing the 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New T...

This is certainly a significant announcement : The long awaited 28th edition of Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece will likely ...

The Greek phrase κατὰ τό . . . (pronounced kata to  . . . ) means "according to . . ." So, for example, the titles printed over ...

Mark Goodacre has published a short paper by Francis Watson, entitled " The Gospel of Jesus' Wife : How a Fake Gospel-Fragment was...

On The Jesus Blog Anthony Le Donne and Chris Keith have published the schedule for the up-coming Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authent...

Two days ago the news "broke" that a fourth-century CE (300s) Coptic papyrus fragment suggests Jesus might have been married and...

I know I'm supposed to be blogging about Jesus' wife. I'll try to get to that later today. But for now, can any of you access or...

I have begun reviewing the massive volume, Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus: A Collaborative Exploration of Context and Cohe...

As Mark Goodacre has already noted , the Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity  Conference, scheduled for 4–5 October 2012, has be...

With the Spring 2012 semester behind me, I've turned my attention back to research and writing, and my first task is to review Alexander...

I'm sorry for the long silence. And I'm afraid it's likely to continue. But I just want to bring two quotes from a single articl...

The concept of "memory," especially of "social memory," is a live issue among New Testament scholars. ( Social memory  r...

I'm sure I should know this already (perhaps it has already been explained). But, Does anyone know why Robert Jewett, in his commentar...

I'm working through some thoughts on the identity of Paul's interlocutor in Romans (chapters 2–11, though my focus is on Romans 1–4)...

I don't usually write about things like this, but Whitney Houston's tragic and premature death has stuck in my brain more than I wo...

Dan Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary) has announced the discovery of a number of papyrus manuscripts of the New Testament. He says, [...

In a previous post, I commented on the strange use of "weakness" in Rom. 8.3 , where Paul seems to say that Torah itself was rende...