The title might of course lead some to fear that this might be a post about something unpleasant, indeed downright disgusting. And depending on your point of view, you might be right. Exploring Our Matrix ranked #2 on this month’s list of the top biblioblogs. Thank you, readers, because this is your doing! And congratulations [...]

The question of whether “scholarship excludes the possibility of resurrection” by definition has been raised by Brian LePort. Do pay his blog a visit and chime in. My own view is that, if one is talking about scholarship in historical study, there is no way that a historian, whose job it is to assess probabilities based [...]

I just want to quickly draw attention to two items from the biblioblogosphere, both related to the historical Jesus. First, Judy Redman blogged about her latest article which has just appeared in JBL. The title is “How Accurate are Eyewitnesses? Bauckham and the Eyewitnesses in the Light of Psychological Research,” Journal of Biblical Literature 129 (2010) [...]

HT Sojourners (also shared by Living in the Kingdom, Bold Faith Type and others).

According to reports, health inspectors today shut down the restaurant at an unspecified creation museum. The creationism-themed restaurant had previously been given a warning when the restaurant’s “Crocoduck Burgers” were tested and found not to contain meat from any known animal. Today’s closure drew attention to the restaurant’s practice of serving foods on which e. coli bacteria [...]

It is good that April 1st has fallen during holy week this year. Many people are unaware that the celebration of April Fool’s Day was orginally an integral part of the Christian calendar, always falling in between Palm Sunday and Good Frday. But debates about and modifications to the date of Easter have broken the [...]

Jim West has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival. But in addition to this funny, flea-ridden carnival, here are some amusing items from around the blogosphere. Clayboy shared an instance of linguistic confusion. Kouya Chronicle linked to it and a couple of others.Loren Rosson reviewed Biblical Cranks.Phil Harland linked to The Lost Tweets of JesusThe Evangelical [...]