Thanks to Jim Davila for pointing out that Peter Flint has a site on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Read more

Chris Brady will be presenting at SBL on the pros and cons of using social media as a graduate student, and he would like to hear from you! Chris also shared a link to the BibleTech conference. And of related interest, Brooke Lester shared videos from The Visions of Students Today. Read more

HT Brad Matthies (Since I have readers in other parts of the world who may just possibly not be following college basketball, I will explain the symbolism of the photo: the Butler Bulldogs just beat the Florida Gators, and thus they will be in the Final Four. Go Dawgs!). Read more

I was really struck by a phrase in Chet Raymo’s blog post “A Saturday Reprise.” He begins by quoting Bilhah in The Red Tent who responds to Zilpah’s expression of fear at leaving a place where customs and gods are known and moving to the unknown by saying “Every place has its holy names, its trees and high places. There will be gods where we go.” Then he applies the thought to new scientific discoveries, and writes: “We are no less... Read more

Robert Holmstead has shared some of his most unpleasant experiences of the process of submitting articles to academic journals, waiting for a response, and the response received. I am sure that those who are students planning on submitting work to journals, scholars who have had similar experiences, and those who have served on editorial boards or in the capacity of peer reviewers, may all have something they wish to chime in.  Read more

The blog Heavenly Ascents shared another press release about the lead books that have been discussed around the biblioblogosphere lately. Lead Plates Press Release  (advice on how to get this to display better gratefully accepted!) Read more

Via AWOL, a Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics. Read more

I regularly have Christian fundamentalists tell me that people who do not approach the Bible with faith cannot understand it. That is of course nonsense, although I am pretty sure that at some point in the past I believed it to be true. The first passage that is usually cited as “proof” of this point is 1 Corinthians 2:14: “The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness,... Read more

The book arrived today. And in class today I was talking about the book. And apparently while anyone can read the book, not everyone can understand it. “The book” in each of the above statements refers to different things. Yet they seem strikingly interconnected. The book that arrived in the mail today is Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man (thanks, John!). “The book” that I was talking about in class today is The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by... Read more

An article I wrote entitled ” The Burial of Jesus and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher” has appeared in The Bible and Interpretation. The article is based on material that appeared in The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith. Read more