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May 2020

May 05, 2020

Nazareth, Sepphoris, Jesus, and Enoch

A recent article about Ken Dark's archaeological work in Nazareth, now published in his book...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Stay-at-Home Orders in the Bible (and “What Use is God?”)

I thought I'd share a part of the recording from my Sunday school class meeting...

April 13, 2020

The First Zoom Conversation of St. Paul with the Corinthians

In my Sunday school class and fellowship on Easter morning, which met via Zoom, I...

April 11, 2020

Ascension Interview

Brian LePort interviewed me on the topic of the ascension. I'm happy to be able...

April 08, 2020

Seder-Masochism

I didn't manage to share Nina Paley's movie "Seder-Masochism" in time for Passover when...

April 06, 2020

Does Paul “Split the Shema”?

Mike Kok blogged recently about some of my academic work on Christology and monotheism. He...

April 01, 2020

Barton Breen Quote About Inerrancy

Barton Breen gave me permission a while back to turn something he said into a...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

RIP Krzysztof Penderecki

You have probably already heard the sad news that Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has died....

March 28, 2020

Some Psalms

My colleague Paul Valliere (now retired) used to teach a course on the Psalms, focused...

March 22, 2020

What Does The Bible Say About Coronavirus?

Coronavirus. Covid-19. SARS. Pandemic. Many people are troubled by events that are unprecedented in their...

March 07, 2020

The Bible Says

This tweet definitely seemed to me to be worth sharing with a wider audience: That...

March 05, 2020

Rock around the Bible

With a project related to progressive rock and the Bible in the works, and the...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of John: Enoch Seminar Colloquiuum at #AARSBL19

Here I am returning to a session that I didn't manage to blog about at...

February 22, 2020

#CFP Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible: Society of Biblical Literature #AARSBL20

Two calls for papers from the Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible program unit, for the...

February 20, 2020

Come Compromise at Crooked Creek Baptist Church!

It is high time for me to invite readers of my blog to my church,...

February 15, 2020

Musical Hell

I am supervising an honors thesis on the subject of Mandaean views of music past...

February 13, 2020

Day One

Day One The earth was a right old mess When God began to fashion Earth...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

The Suffering of Mrs. Job

A sermon at Crooked Creek Baptist Church by Rev. Joy Amick got me thinking about...

January 23, 2020

(Updated) Call for Submissions: Bible & Speculative Fiction #CFP

A revised and extended call for papers from the Journal of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies appears...

January 17, 2020

Paul APB 7

In this Apostle Paul APB, Rob Orlando asks what Paul was on trial for,...

January 08, 2020

ReligionProf Podcast with Sara Parks

In this episode of the ReligionProf Podcast I talk with Dr. Sara Parks about her...

January 01, 2020

Crucified with Christ

There have been suggestions over the years that Jesus faked his own death, Hugh Schonfeld’s...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Retrospect and Prospect

It is often strange for professors and other researchers to look back on the calendar...

December 26, 2019

The Gospel of the Gaps (and the Gaps of the Gospels)

One of the things that mythicists regularly mention is the (in their view) long period...

December 21, 2019

The Christ Child

Dan McClellan drew my attention to this fascinating short Christmas movie, The Christ Child,...

December 13, 2019

Graphic Canon and Chronology

I enjoyed talking with A. David Lewis at ΘeoCon about comic books, graphic novels, and Canon:...

December 12, 2019

Josiah: Children’s Bible Version

I've blogged before about getting students to read texts as adults that they were previously...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

Biblical Music in the Milken Archive

I love the Milken Archive. So much Jewish music has been made available, promoted, highlighted,...

November 18, 2019

Social Mediators at #AARSBL19

I've loved, and when possible helped organize, gatherings of bloggers at the annual meeting of...

November 16, 2019

John Rutter’s Requiem

I thought I would share the thoughts that were part of my panel presentation as...

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