Submissions for July/August Biblical Studies Carnival

Dan McClellan has put out a call for submissions for the next Biblical Studies Carnival.  I personally think that the carnival name ought to reflect the month covered by the carnival, not the fact that it is posted early in the following month. What do others think about this? On a related note, Chris Brady [...]

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Back home from the summer’s extensive travels. Regular blogging will resume shortly…

Review of Jerusalem Testament

I took several books and bits of work with me on my recent trip by placing them on my iPad, but I also took a print book, of which the publisher kindly sent me a free review copy: Melanie A. May’s Jerusalem Testament: Palestinian Christians Speak, 1988-2008 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010). It is perhaps more [...]

Ken Brown on the SBL International Monotheism Sessions

Ken Brown has posted a summary of the three sessions on the term monotheism and whether it should continue to be used in Biblical studies. The Bibliobloggers’ dinner went ahead just down the street from the originally-planned venue, at a place called dr.ink’s. It was well attended, including by a large number of non-bloggers, who [...]

Drafts of My Article on Monotheism

My earliest draft of my reference article on the term “monotheism” was very brief, and so I can share it in its entirety here: monotheism n. Do not use this term. I came to the International Society of Biblical Literature conference hoping to get a better sense of whether this was the emerging scholarly consensus [...]

Bibliobloggers Dinner

This is just a reminder that details about the International SBL Bibliobloggers Dinner have been posted on the blog Corthodoxy. Click through for further details. If you are a Biblioblogger in London, hope you can make it!

International Society of Biblical Literature Conference – Day One

I got to London yesterday for the International Society of Biblical Literature conference, being hosted by King’s College. Unlike the SBL Annual Meeting in the US, and apparently previous international meetings, the first day of the conference “hit the ground running.” I was rather dismayed, as a result of not having planned my travels with [...]