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March 2021

March 27, 2021

Explaining Fifty Ways to Forge a Gospel

I promised to return to the lyrics of the parody song "Fifty Ways to...

July 2020

July 04, 2020

Academic Genealogies

Some academics can trace their academic genealogy back quite far. For example, a while back Sy...

June 2020

June 27, 2020

RIP Jimmy Dunn (James D. G. Dunn)

I was heartbroken to learn yesterday that my dear mentor, my doctoral supervisor at the...

June 22, 2020

The Works of the Flesh are Obvious (Unless They are Theological)

Paul's discussion of the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit in...

July 2019

July 14, 2019

Written Islands in an Oral Stream

I was delighted to learn that the Festschrift for Jimmy Dunn on his 70th birthday, Jesus...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Jesus among Other Exalted Humans

Another draft post that has been brewing as I've added more and more links to...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus

I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in the Patheos Book Club about...

August 2014

August 03, 2014

James D. G. Dunn on Gaza

Here's a letter to the editor written to The Guardian by James D. G. Dunn, New...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Ascension Deficit Disorder

Today is Ascension Day. The cartoon above is one that I have shared before. In...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

How Jesus Became God: Initial Ripples

Bart Ehrman's latest book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

James Dunn Interview

The Eerdmans blog shared an interview with James D. G. Dunn about his work on...

December 2013

December 28, 2013

N. T. Wright on Christology and Monotheism

Johnny Walker and Scot McKnight have posted about Tom Wright's treatment of monotheism and Christology in...

December 19, 2013

Earliest Christology

Larry Hurtado has posted about views of early Christian Christology. He says that proponents of...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

Pre-Christian Gnosticism and Christology

Larry Hurtado posted recently about his talk on "fallacies and fashions" in New Testament studies....

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Did Paul Have a Distinctive Christology? Did He Think of Jesus as a Pre-Existent Human Being?

In a recent blog post, Larry Hurtado noted Morton Smith's observation that Christology never turns...

June 19, 2013

N. T. Wright and James D. G. Dunn on the New Perspective on Paul

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June 11, 2013

Asbury Theological Seminary Lectureships

An e-mail this morning from Digital Commons informed me about audio recordings of guest lectures...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

Retelling Romans 3:1-20

So what then is the advantage of being a Christian? What value is there in...

May 17, 2013

James D. G. Dunn Blog

I learned today that there is a Wordpress site for James D. G. Dunn. Jimmy...

May 01, 2013

John, Jesus, and History Conference

Tom Thatcher sent around the news about an exciting-looking conference to be held in Baltimore...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

The Early High Christology Club

Larry Hurtado has a post about the group of scholars who have come to refer...

August 2011

August 27, 2011

C. K. Barrett (1917-2011)

Michael Halcomb was the first biblioblogger to break the news that Charles Kingsley Barrett has...

August 19, 2011

Nick Norelli on Sacrifice, Monotheism and Christology

Nick Norelli posted an entry on his blog about sacrificial worship, connecting it with James...

July 2011

July 18, 2011

Evangelical Perspectives on the New Perspective on Paul

A couple of other bloggers have had some interesting things to say about the new...

June 2011

June 09, 2011

Paul’s Expanded Shema in 1 Corinthians 8:6

On the blog Diglotting, in a post with the title "Paul, 1 Cor. 8.6, and...

June 02, 2011

Quotes for Ascension Day

Since Dănuţ Mănăstireanu offered a reminder that it is ascension day, and Ken Brown linked...

May 2011

May 28, 2011

High on Christology Smack(down)?

Mike Bird has a post reflecting on some of the interactions about Christology in the...

May 27, 2011

The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism

I am grateful to Eerdmans for sending me a free review copy of The Eerdmans...

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