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April 2011

April 03, 2011

Earl Doherty Believes Paul Existed…For Much the Same Reasons Historians Believe Jesus Existed

Neil Godfrey has kindly posted an interview with Earl Doherty and then Doherty's response to...

April 03, 2011

A Stark Choice Between Universalism and Hellism?

I think this picture, which Arni Zachariassen shared, is supposed to illustrate the difficulty of...

April 03, 2011

Choose Your Own Adventure Carnival Next Month, Courtesy of Dr. Jim!

Jim Linville will be hosting next month's Biblical Studies Carnival, and he is already soliciting...

April 03, 2011

Getting the Lead Out and Taking it to the Streets Wikipedia

Bibliobloggers managed to do better research than major media outlets and determined relatively quickly the...

April 02, 2011

Science Fiction, Religion, Humor and more around the Blogosphere

Several posts related to the intersection of religion and sci-fi - some with a humorous...

April 02, 2011

Go Bulldogs!

Congratulations to the Butler Bulldogs for making it through the Final Four and into the...

April 02, 2011

Review of Paul Foster, The Gospel of Peter: Introduction, Critical Edition and Commentary (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2010) Part One

I have been reading Paul Foster’s edition of The Gospel of Peter, and am grateful...

April 01, 2011

Confessions of one Doubting Bauckham

Ricky Carvel explains why he finds Richard Bauckham's book about supposed eyewitnesses behind the canonical...

April 01, 2011

More April Fools Day Religion News

Mark Goodacre shared a link to an article about UNC creating a "Department of Irreligion."...

April 01, 2011

March Biblioblog Rankings, Biblical Studies Carnival, and More!

Although it is April 1st, there are still serious things going on around the blogosphere....

April 01, 2011

Lead Tablets Deciphered!

I am delighted to be able to share the breaking news that a group of...

April 01, 2011

Another SBL Paper Proposal Accepted!

I've had another paper I proposed accepted, this one for the Session on the Proliferation...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

The Lead Codices are Forgeries – If the E-Mail is Authentic

Daniel McClellan shares an e-mail allegedly from Peter Thonemann at Oxford, staking his career on...

March 31, 2011

The Satirical Use of Christian Material in the Mandaean Book of John

I learned today that my paper, "The Satirical Use of Christian Material in the Mandaean...

March 31, 2011

Five-Year-Olds Make Final Four Picks

HT Jill Moffett on Facebook

March 31, 2011

A Squirrel that Keeps Falling Over: Raccoon Roundworm, Theodicy, Creation and Evolution

About a week or so ago, my family and I noticed a squirrel behaving oddly....

March 31, 2011

Worship Whom?

Dan McClellan has set his sights on documenting the examples of worship directed at figures...

March 31, 2011

Doctor Who Trailer

Thanks to Doug Chaplin for sharing a trailer for the upcoming season of Doctor Who...

March 31, 2011

Seeing Blogs Differently

Blogger has a new feature that allows one to view blogs in a variety of...

March 31, 2011

Evolution vs. a Talking Snake: Yes They Really Are That Different

Michael Patton has posted a cartoon, and once again I find it troubling. The cartoon...

March 31, 2011

IM Abbreviations for Older Bloggers

Chris Brady shared a selection on his blog. Pay him a visit - they are...

March 30, 2011

The Holy Spirit as Wife of Adonai in Mandaeism

I've been spending some time this evening working on the Mandaean Book of John. In...

March 30, 2011

Ben Witherington (and others) on Bart Ehrman’s Forged

Ben Witherington just posted the first post in what looks like it will be a...

March 30, 2011

Biblical Studies Carnival Call for Submissions

Jim West shared a reminder to send your submissions for this month's Biblical Studies Carnival...

March 29, 2011

The Complete Biblioblogs RSS Feed

Via Joel and Jim, I learned of the RSS feed for all biblioblogs!

March 29, 2011

Mark Goodacre on the Synoptic Problem on the Internet Archive

HT to Mark Goodacre on Facebook for letting us know that his book The Synoptic Problem:...

March 29, 2011

The Latest on the Lead Books from the BBC and around the Blogosphere

Presumably spurred by BBC coverage of the topic (the BBC web site has particularly clear...

March 28, 2011

Student Conference (Why Study Religious Studies?)

Jim Linville has posted an announcement about an upcoming conference for students to be held...

March 28, 2011

Free Issue of Journal of Early Christianity

Thanks to Nijay Gupta for pointing out that the latest issue (1.3) of the Journal...

March 28, 2011

The Hymn of Jesus, Mandaean Hymns, and Other Gnostic Music

When we get up to the Acts of John in my "Heresy" class, I usually...

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