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October 2021

October 09, 2021

Michele Bachmann Cites Famous Social Justice Verse from the Catholic Bible

Michelle Bachmann has done so many strange and dubious things with the Bible that at...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

Brandon Hawk, Apocrypha for Beginners

I'm grateful to Brandon Hawk and to Rockridge Press for a review copy of Hawk's...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

ReligionProf Podcast with Tony Burke

It was a pleasure to record another episode of the ReligionProf Podcast, this time with...

April 2020

April 23, 2020

Baby Yoda and Biblical Canon

I am delighted that Matthew Korpman has revived his blog, and even more so given...

February 2019

February 04, 2019

Spem in Alium

I still remember vividly my introduction to the music of Thomas Tallis. It occurred...

October 2018

October 06, 2018

The Material of Christian Apocrypha Conference

Via Tony Burke's NASSCAL blog, I learned of the Material of Christian Apocrypha conference and...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Apocryphal Calls for Papers

A couple of calls for paper on Christian apocrypha have come to my attention. Here...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

#CFP The Material of Christian Apocrypha

The Material of Christian Apocrypha University of Virginia November 30 to December 1, 2018 Confirmed...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

More Genesis Games, Plus Apocrypha

Another couple of games with biblical themes came to my attention recently. One is Genesis,...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

Canon in the UK

Thanks to Meredith Warren for introducing students in Sheffield, England to Canon: The Card Game!...

June 2016

June 02, 2016

New Monograph Series NASSCAL/Polebridge

Via the NASSCAL blog, this exciting announcement: The North American Society for the Study of...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

The Bible Beyond the Bible:From Apocrypha to Anime

HT to Deane Galbraith for drawing attention to this lecture by Annette Yoshiko Reed. As...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

What Jesus Thought of the Apostles

Jesus says, “The apostles were stupid and lazy men, who wrote whatever they wished with...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

50 Ways to Forge a Gospel

As the song lyrics indicate, it genuinely was at the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

#YCAS2015 and Gospel Authorship Around the Blogosphere

I'm not the only blogger who was at the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, by any...

September 28, 2015

NASSCAL (North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature)

It isn't NASCAR (although there was some discussion of whether it would be mostly funny or...

September 26, 2015

#YCAS2015 The Final Session

The final session after lunch was focused on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. We did...

September 26, 2015

#YCAS2015 Fifth Panel

The morning of the second day of the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium began with Gregory...

September 25, 2015

#YCAS2015 Third Panel

The session after lunch began with Brandon Hawk talking about the use of apocryphal narratives...

September 25, 2015

#YCAS2015 Second Panel

The first paper in the second session at the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium was by...

September 25, 2015

#YCAS2015 First Panel at the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium

Brent Landau got the day started by highlighting the Gospel of Jesus' Wife, and whether...

September 25, 2015

#YCAS2015 Begins

Last night I reached Toronto, where the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium is bing held, and...

September 24, 2015

Traveling to Toronto #YCAS2015

I'll be traveling to Toronto today to the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium. I will try...

September 18, 2015

YCAS Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Panel

Tony Burke has shared details about the presenters and papers that will be part of...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Media Kindly Promotes Academic Conference on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

The only explanation I can think of for why the media is focusing attention again...

August 21, 2014

The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor

I'm delighted that St. Martin's Press sent me an advance reading copy of Joel M....

August 18, 2014

Apocryphal Call for Papers

Tony Burke shared this call for papers on his blog: York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Secret Scriptures Revealed Reviewed

I am grateful to Eerdmans for providing me with a free review copy of Tony...

February 23, 2013

Rick Brannan Apocryphal Gospels for Logos

Rick Brannan's edition of the Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments, and Agrapha for Logos offers an...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

The Most Interesting Bible in the World

When I saw the above image on Episcopal Church Memes on Facebook, my first reaction...

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