I am delighted to have had the opportunity to read an advance copy of Dale Allison’s forthcoming book, Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010), and am grateful to Baker Academic for having allowed me to do so. (The best glimpses publicly available can be found here). I will jump briefly to the final pages of the book, before returning to begin at the beginning. An early reader of a draft of Allison’s manuscript suggested that it... Read more

Bob Cornwall drew to my attention that the Big Tent Christianity eBook has become available. It is a book in pdf form comprised of the blog posts that were part of the Big Tent Christianity synchroblog, and includes a contribution by yours truly. Read more

“[T]he conservative Christian community wants its scholars as long as it can control them. It’s as though there are communities of believers who really think that they already know and understand as much as can possibly be understood about the Bible, theology, philosophy etc, and what they want is someone with letters after their name who can just give voice to what those communities already know. Of course, if someone has spent years studying this stuff and comes to a... Read more

OK, the title of this post may be a tad misleading – although most people who know biblioblogs will get the joke. I received my copy of the latest issue of The Bulletin for the Study of Religion yesterday, in which an article I wrote about biblioblogging appears. I had intended to wait until the latest issue was available on the journal’s web site before mentioning it. But since Jim West has broken the news to the blogosphere, I figured I... Read more

I’m not sure how, but I managed to miss a review of James Dunn’s book, this one by John Byron of The Biblical World. Read more

A review of James Dunn’s Did The First Christians Worship Jesus? has been posted on the blog A Feather Adrift. Read more

After posting “Title of this Song” I came across another version with lyrics, which seems better: http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/734wnHnnNR4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0 Read more

Scot McKnight has a post up on Jesus Creed about James D. G. Dunn’s recent book, Did The First Christians Worship Jesus? Scot and I both did our PhDs with Jimmy as our supervisor. Read more

Joel Watts continues his series on geocentrism with a post gathering Biblical passages which reflect a geocentric (or at least a flat earth) cosmology. He also posted about Ken Ham’s attack on the Assemblies of God, who dare to disagree with him. In related news, RJS at Jesus Creed asks what we mean by “literal.” James Kidder shares a link to a review of Denis Lamoureux’s book I Love Jesus and I Accept Evolution. And Bob Cornwall posts about Christianities and Islams. Read more