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August 2022

August 24, 2022

Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network Meeting November 2022 #CFP

I am sharing the following announcement that Geoff Smith shared on Facebook: We are pleased...

June 2022

June 22, 2022

John the Baptist and the Mandaeans

For anyone interested in getting a glimpse of some of the exciting insights and groundbreaking...

December 2021

December 02, 2021

The Blind God and the Blind Watchmaker in Conversation

When Shirley Paulson reached out to me about returning for another appearance on her podcast,...

January 2021

January 13, 2021

#JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 2

These are my notes from and thoughts about the second day of the Enoch Seminar...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

Talk Gnosis: The Origins of Gnosticism

One of the things that I got pushback about in my Enoch Seminar conference paper...

June 2020

June 20, 2020

The Shared Origins of Monotheism, Evil, and Gnosticism (Enoch Seminar 2020 Presentation)

Above is the short version of a longer paper I wrote for the Enoch...

June 07, 2020

Gnostic Origins and Pre-Exilic Israelite Traditions

Here is the title and abstract for my presentation in the upcoming Enoch Seminar Conference...

April 2020

April 14, 2020

Songs of Your Truth

I was delighted when I learned a while back (in a conversation with Deb Saxon...

April 09, 2020

The Judas Passion and Graphic Novel

Teaching a course on the Bible and music leads me to encounter so much material...

April 05, 2020

Elephantine, Leontopolis, and Gnosticism

There's so much that deserves to be said, and deserves to be better known, about...

March 2020

March 04, 2020

Open Access Mandaean Book of John

Thanks to generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (which President Trump would...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

Conservative Christianity Isn’t Christianity

I decided to combine my blog post about the latest ReligionProf Podcast with Matthew Korpman and...

November 2019

November 13, 2019

Academic Minutes

Last week, Butler University took over the Academic Minute podcast. Mine appeared on Wednesday and...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

Mandaean Book of John at #AARSBL19 in San Diego

It is exciting to be able to share that the Mandaean Book of John: Critical...

August 2019

August 18, 2019

Phildickeanism

From the article in Salon about Dick's turn to Christianity (famously of not just a vague...

July 2019

July 13, 2019

What Jesus Learned from Mary Magdalene

I am still debating whether to start my chapter about Mary Magdalene in the book...

December 2018

December 22, 2018

VALIS (The Audiobooks of Strange Dead Cats, Part 1)

I recently listened to two science fiction books with religious themes as audiobooks. One is...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

ARAM Conferences on Gnosticism and Mandaeism #CFP

ARAM Society has changed the dates for two of its conferences next July, one on...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Gnostic America Conference

April DeConick shared this information about a conference that is coming up very soon -...

November 2017

November 19, 2017

What was it worth missing the #AARSBL17 blogger gathering and Durham reception for?

I mentioned in an earlier post that I would be missing both the Durham University...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

AI Article, AAR, and an Unprecedented Third Appearance on Talk Gnosis

So much time had passed since I did the above interview for Talk Gnosis, that...

April 2017

April 06, 2017

Gnostic Cinema

April De Conick has shared her opening talk that introduced the recent Gnostic Cinema movie...

January 2017

January 15, 2017

Call for Papers: PKD Day 2017

Here is a call for papers that will be of interest to those interested in...

November 2016

November 03, 2016

Our Divine Double

Harvard Divinity School recorded this discussion of Charles Stang's book The Divine Double. I have not...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

SNTS: Simultaneous Short Papers

The last afternoon of the SNTS conference was dedicated to simultaneous short papers. The first...

June 2016

June 04, 2016

Andre Gagne on the Gospel of Thomas

Here's Andre Gagne talking about the Gospel of Thomas on the show Talk Gnosis. Enjoy!

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Lectures on Neglected Aspects of the Bible and Christianity

Several interesting-looking videos of lectures came to my attention and I wanted to share them. First,...

April 2016

April 09, 2016

The Historical Jesus Facepalmed

Part two of my discussion of mythicism on the show Talk Gnosis is now available...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Talk Gnosis Interview about the Mandaeans

The video above is the first part of an interview I did for the online...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Magic Bowls at #AARSBL15 in Atlanta

For those interested in Judaism, Mandaeism, Late Antiquity, ancient magic, Aramaic, and any number of...

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