Thanks to Rod of Alexandria for posting a link to a quiz designed to determine if you’re addicted to blogging. Here’s my result… 80%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? No really, I can quit any time I want to… If you’re looking for something to blog about, Jim Getz suggests blogging your prediction about when the world will end. Read his post to see why. Read more

The SBL International Meeting in London in July has its schedule searchable online. It is possible to browse and to search by surname. Read more

Kristin Swenson and Timothy Beal both think you should read the Bible – even if you don’t believe it. In the process all-too-often-neglected aspects of the Bible – such as its diversity of voices – are highlighted. Read more

Dan McClellan has posted a reminder to vote for your favorite biblioblogger.He also responds to a post by Michael Heiser about a paper he (Dan) read at SBL, all on the topic of monotheism and polytheism in ancient Israel. Read more

I’m posting this mainly to bookmark it for myself, but I suspect that many others will find it useful. Thanks to Jeremy Smith for explaining how to e-mail a cell phone, and linking to other sites with useful information to help you do so. Read more

Nick Norelli responded earlier today to my post about God and objective morality. In the process, he mentions John P. Meier’s treatment of the “Golden Rule,” which he feels is best not viewed as authentically coming from Jesus, since it teaches an ethic of reciprocity that is incompatible with other ethical teaching that is likely to be authentically from Jesus. I remember reading Meier’s treatment of this and disagreeing. I don’t believe that the Golden Rule teaches a “tit for... Read more

Both Jim West and Jim Davila note the latest article on the lead codices, focusing on Philip Davies’ perspective, which has appeared in the Sheffield Telegraph. Both Jims offer their own perspectives as well. Read more

The news has begun to appear on this side of the pond that actress Elisabeth Sladen, famous for her role as Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who and the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, died from cancer today. She will be missed, and remembered fondly. There will be many melancholic older fans, and many truly saddened children, when they hear the news. Read more

Nick Norelli has made reference to objective morality again. Rather than write a lengthy comment, I thought I’d turn this into a blog post of its own. Nick’s point, if I’ve understood it, is that there is no objective reality. What God says is good, is good. If God commands slaughtering Canaanites, it is good. If God commands us to love our enemies, it is good. There is no objective standard that we can look to. Whatever God says is... Read more

At both Remnant of Giants and Religion Bulletin, Deane Galbraith continues his series blogging through Maurice Casey’s book Jesus of Nazareth: An independent historian’s account of his life and teaching. The latest post has a doubly-interesting discussion of the ending of Mark’s Gospel. On the one hand, Galbraith presents Casey’s interesting suggestion that the Gospel of Mark is an unfinished draft that was never completed. On the other hand, he argues against Casey for the conclusion that the ending of Mark... Read more