James Tabor shared a link to a video of an interview in which he discusses what kind of Jew Jesus was. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I figure it is safe to assume it is worth sharing! http://www.viddler.com/player/bcff1412/

From the New York Times, here is a web site which allows visitors to the site to collaborate with composer Jason Freeman and fit together measures he composed into their own piano etudes. Enjoy!

Here’s Lang Lang playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” on the “Magic Piano” app on an iPad, in concert: HT The Geek Muse

HT B the Lint Herder from Vatican City

Mike Koke continues his series “The Dating Game” by turning his attention to the Secret Gospel of Mark. In thinking about a work, it is indeed important to have a clear sense of what the range of genuinely possible dates for its composition are, and then proceed from there. As the terminus post quem, the earliest [...]

From Non Sequitur, HT The Dispersal of Darwin

David Ker describes on his blog attempting to find someone online and not being able to, following up with encouragement to readers to make sure that, if someone is looking for them online, they can find them. Curious, I typed in James F. McGrath on the Yahoo! search engine, and all but one of the [...]