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October 2010

October 12, 2010
Mark Goodacre posted today on the "orthodox redaction of Mark." While I certainly agree that...
October 12, 2010
HT to The Fire and the Rose for mentioning this call for papers for a...
October 11, 2010
Earl Doherty and some other mythicists try to argue that Paul thought that the story...
October 11, 2010
A characteristic feature of mythicism is to make much of the fact that Paul's letters...
October 11, 2010
Bill Caraher of The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World posted "More on Academic Blogging."Inside Higher...
October 09, 2010
For those who couldn't make it, here's a clip from the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra play-a-thon...
October 09, 2010
I have a student who is very interested in the development of the idea of...
October 08, 2010
I just tried out the new feature on Academia.edu which allows you to ask questions...
October 08, 2010
The religion program at Butler University has been on Facebook for quite some time. Now...
October 08, 2010
April DeConick has posted some thoughts on the relationship between memory and history on her...
October 08, 2010
Thanks to Jim Davila for pointing out that the Mandaeans were mentioned in an article...
October 08, 2010
I have been too busy to blog about the last episode of The Event, but...
October 07, 2010
The Gospel of Mark, when not read through the lens of later Gospels, suggests that...
October 07, 2010
By Ben Sargent, HT John Pieret
October 07, 2010
The Onion has the scoop, although it turns out that it wasn't (just) the New...
October 07, 2010
Those who focus on the doom and devastation in Revelation are prone to completely overlook...
October 06, 2010
Bob Cornwall has a review of James D. G. Dunn's book, Did the First Christians...
October 06, 2010
Before someone corrects the disaccord between number and verb in the title of this post,...
October 06, 2010
I've posted an entry on the Mandaean Book of John translation project blog about a...
October 06, 2010
Jonathan Robinson of the blog ξἐνος  has posted that he'll be hosting this month's Biblical studies...
October 05, 2010
Thanks to Tim Henderson for pointing out that Larry Hurtado has a new book out,...
October 05, 2010
I have a student in my course on the Book of Revelation this semester who...
October 05, 2010
A lot of insightful, thoughtful and provocative blog posts and videos have appeared on blogs...
October 05, 2010
The first almost 200 pages of Don Quixote is one of the readings for my...
October 04, 2010
It seems that men and women have perspectives on sex that are more different than anyone...
October 04, 2010
"Can a blog be used for serious academic writing?" is the question posed in the...
October 04, 2010
There's a post by David Opderbeck at Jesus Creed today on a topic of continued...
October 04, 2010
There's an old story that tells of a man who went to a Christian counsellor about...
October 03, 2010
Having discussed a number of times on this blog the story of Abraham's binding of...
October 03, 2010
A blogger who shall remain nameless (but whom we shall call by the fictional name...
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