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  • Background Transparency for the Biblioblog-SBL Affiliate Badge

    Thanks to Mark Hoffman for introducing a version of the Biblioblog-SBL Affiliate badge with a non-white background. With this color change, in an effort at collaborative improvement, I was able to get OpenOffice.org Draw to translate this background to transparent for use on blogs or places on blogs with non-white backgrounds.

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  • “The Origin of ‘Alpha and Omega’”

    David Lincicum has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “The Origin of “Alpha and Omega” (Revelation 1.8; 21.6; 22.13): A Suggestion.” Lincicum takes his point of departure from the fact that [Some] scholars have suggested that the title ‘Alpha and Omega’ in Revelation arose through reflection on the Greek form…

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  • The Deliverance of God

    Douglas Campbell’s new book, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, has come to publication at Eerdmans. The publisher’s description reports that: In this scholarly book Douglas Campbell pushes beyond both “Lutheran” and “New” perspectives on Paul to a noncontractual, “apocalyptic” reading of many of the apostle’s most famous-and most troublesome-texts.…

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  • In the Biblioblogs

    A few recent, noteworthy posts in the biblioblogs: Michael Bird and Michael Whitenton have an article in the newest issue of New Testament Studies: “The Faithfulness of Jesus Christ in Hippolytus’s De Christo et Antichristo: Overlooked Patristic Evidence in the Πίστις Χριστοῦ Debate.” Michael Kok has Biblical Studies Carnival 45 (Bible Theme Park) available over…

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  • NIV Update Slated for 2011

    The widely used New International Version is slated for an update in 2011, its first revision in 25 years. According to the press release: “As time passes and English changes, the NIV we have at present is becoming increasingly dated. If we want a Bible that English speakers around the world can understand, we have…

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  • 2009 Carver-Barnes Lectures

    This post is somewhat belated, but I have just recently been able to listen to this year’s Carver-Barnes Lectures. On March 25, Ken Myers delivered a lecture on the “Comprehensive Character of Christian Discipleship.” Ken followed on the 26th with a lecture on the “Counter-Cultural Imperative for Christian Disciplers.” As much as a good many…

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