{"id":51513,"date":"2018-09-23T05:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=51513"},"modified":"2018-09-21T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:33:55","slug":"hitting-sheffield-doctor-who-and-biblical-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/09\/hitting-sheffield-doctor-who-and-biblical-studies.html","title":{"rendered":"Hitting Sheffield: Doctor Who and Biblical Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There seems to be a lot of interesting things hitting Sheffield<\/a> at present or set to do so in the near future. A falling TARDIS and recently-regenerated Time Lord<\/a>\u00a0are apparently going to make an impact there soon. Have you seen the new trailer<\/a>?<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then there is a new book series in biblical studies edited by Meredith Warren (on which see details in the image below). This seems like a good time for someone to work on a book project related to the reception of the Bible on Doctor Who!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51516\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2018\/09\/SIIBS-book-series.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"629\"><\/p>\n<p>Both of these announcements can be viewed as reflecting <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/jodie-whittakers-debut-doctor-who-season-wont-feature-a-1829197864\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a new era in longstanding franchises<\/a>, and so it isn\u2019t just the convergence on Sheffield that justifies mentioning them together!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a lot of interesting things hitting Sheffield at present or set to do so in the near future. A falling TARDIS and recently-regenerated Time Lord\u00a0are apparently going to make an impact there soon. Have you seen the new trailer? And then there is a new book series in biblical studies edited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":51516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,133],"tags":[2765,14455,15549],"class_list":["post-51513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-for-papers-2","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","tag-doctor-who","tag-meredith-warren","tag-sheffield"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Hitting Sheffield: Doctor Who and Biblical Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There seems to be a lot of interesting things hitting Sheffield at present or set to do so in the near future. 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