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July 2020

July 28, 2020

Vspph, Vphdph, Vphcph

Meredith Warren shared the meme above on Facebook and it inspired this blog post. Apparently...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

Learning by Listening

I have been benefiting from audiobooks to no end, and I have been podcasting more...

December 2018

December 18, 2018

Hebrew Matthew and Hebrew Josephus

I was reminded a while back (actually, looking at when I first wrote a draft...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

David (and Bathsheba) in Song

There is a lot of music about King David, the Biblical character, as well as much...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

5 Easy Steps to Reading the Bible Literally

I've shared a number of these kinds of memes and infographics before, and so I...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Digital Humanist Wanted

This job announcement came to my attention via the NASCAS e-mail list, and I thought...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Learning Ancient Greek as a Spoken Language

I have been meaning ever since I got back from SBL to blog about some...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

Early High Subordinationist Christology around the Blogosphere

Let me start this round-up of recent blogging about Christology with a quote from a...

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Learn Ancient Greek with Prof. Leonard Muellner

Ancient World Online shared the above playlist of videos for learning ancient Greek, courtesy of...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Were the Titles of the Gospel on #Sillyboi?

You may think I'm a "silly boy" for writing about this. But when Sarah Bond...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

A Man Attested By God: Daniel Kirk on the Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels

I recently had the opportunity to read an advance copy of Daniel Kirk's forthcoming book, which he...

February 2016

February 06, 2016

Ancient Computers?

There was an interesting convergence around the topic of ancient people allegedly using computers this...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

A Bible Typo as Prelude to the Hymn of Jesus

The Acts of John concludes with Jesus leading his disciples in song (with words that...

December 10, 2015

How Many Variants?

Peter Gurry has written an interesting post about variants in the manuscripts of the New...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Strong Ability in Biblical Languages

As I sought feedback on the Swahili lyrics of Baba Yetu recently, one of the...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

Fundamentalists and Scholarship

I made the same point some years ago in a blog post. But the above...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Taking KJV-Onlyism As Far As It Can Go

I thought that the view of the King James Version of the Bible that Stuff...

April 2015

April 06, 2015

LOST Rewatch: The Incident

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March 2015

March 29, 2015

What the Greek REALLY Says

HT Henry Neufeld

December 2014

December 02, 2014

Spending the Night with Jesus

One objection to the antiquity of the Secret Gospel of Mark is that it uses...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

10 Amazing Reasons to Buzzfeedify Your Syllabus

Beloit has released its annual mindset list, about the things that this year's incoming freshmen...

August 08, 2014

Expository Preaching in the First Century

 Via Anglican Memes and Humour on Facebook. 

June 2014

June 08, 2014

Speaking in Tongues at Crooked Creek Baptist Church

Today at my church, as it was Pentecost, we had the text (Acts 2:1-13) read...

May 2014

May 10, 2014

Ancient Greek OCR

I haven't tried it out yet, but the news AWOL shared about optical character recognition...

May 07, 2014

“Let It Go” in Ancient Greek

Click on the above to watch the video on YouTube (I'm still having trouble getting...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Were the Gospels Originally Anonymous?

Like many New Testament scholars, the work that I do builds on the work of...

December 30, 2013

God is Agape

I recently had someone say something about "leaving students agape" on Twitter. It is perhaps...

December 11, 2013

Fragments of Extracanonical Greek Gospels Online

What's New in Papyrology highlighted some new images of Greek manuscripts that have been placed...

December 05, 2013

Same Sex Relations and the Jerusalem Council

The Butler Religionists club had a discussion about same-sex relations as viewed by a variety...

August 2013

August 06, 2013

Septuagint Studies Soirée

Abram K-J has proposed a new blog carnival with a specific focus: the Septuagint Studies...

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