On the web: Michael Bird and Marc Cortez discuss comments from D. A. Carson and Tim Keller about confessionalism. Mark Goodacre discusses “The Walking, Talking Cross in the Gospel of Peter.” Brian LePort identifies some favorite scholar-bloggers and solicits thoughts about other academics who might be engaging to have in the biblioblogosphere. Tim Gombis comments on an excerpt from N. T. Wright’s 1978 Tyndale lecture.
On the web: Larry Hurtado discusses scholarly amnesia in Pauline Studies. Charles Jones mentions Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Digital Medievalist. The Biblical Archaeology Review has launched a new website about the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter (HT: Jim Davila). The British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site now has ten new 13th–17th century manuscripts (HT: Julian Harrison).
On the web: Charles Jones notes two good resources for Greco-Roman numismatics: Roman Imperial Coin Hoards and the NUMIDAT. Christian Book Distributors Academic blog features Miles Van Pelt’s new Basics of Biblical Aramaic grammar (Zondervan, 2011).
BBC and MSNBC have both reported that European scientists may have clocked neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. The scientists involved are, however, being cautious while their test results are verified, and Bob Cargill considers this kind of caution in relation to the lack of it in certain instances in archaeological finds. ...
On the web: Peter Williams picks up Alin Suciu’s story about the British Library’s Coptic leaf that corresponds to the text of Jer. 21:14–22:20 (LXX). Charles Jones notes the Latin texts and database that the Packard Humanities Institute has newly made available. Michael Bird includes about a 47-minute lecture of N. T. Wright “giv[ing] a C. S. Lewis-style apologetic of a Christian society filled with good Christians as being one of the best apologetics there are.” Daniel Streett compares Greek curriculum requirements for MDiv students with modern language requirements for area majors at two other sample institutions. Today sees the release of Seth Ehorn’s Philemon commentary in the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series.
On the web: Mel Gibson is apparently planning a movie about Judas Maccabee (HT: John Byron). Google Docs adds a comment-only permission option for document sharing. Alan Bandy discusses the phrase ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν in Rom 1:17 and Augustine’s eschatology.
On the web: Daniel Streett comments on Gen 5:21–24. Logos Bible Software will continue Logos 4 upgrade discounts only through the end of this month. Jason Jewell comments on the open-source mindset and the virtue of charity. Larry Hurtado discusses PhD studies in North America and the United Kingdom. Holly pays tribute to Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, who passed away this week. Cynthia Nielsen continues discussing Dialectic of Enlightenment and its proposal about the relationship between demythologization and remythologization.
On the web: Mike Aubrey notes Daniel Streett’s new blog and his comments on reading Greek, and Daniel comments on this question also. Charles Jones notes that Scripture Bulletin is openly accessible online. Rod Decker ponders Mark 14:37.
On the web: Bob Cargill highlights Eric Kansa, Sarah Kansa, and Ethan Watrall, eds., Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication & Collaboration, which is now freely available online through the University of California. Steve Runge discusses discourse continuity and cohesion. Evernote maintains its existing maximum attachment sizes but lifts file type restrictions from their free accounts.
On the web: Charles Jones notes that Exemplaria Classica, a journal for classical textual criticism and codicology, is open access online for all but the most recent volume. Cynthia Nielsen discussess Dialectic of Enlightenment and its proposal about the relationship between demythologization and remythologization. Robert Woods reflects on some selections from Heraclitus. Steve Caruso highlights Tom Verenna’s video about the Jordanian lead codices. The Center for the Study of Christian Origins has some links to new Roman-era finds near Edinburgh, some of which are relevant to the study of Mithraism in Britain ( part 1, part 2). Brice Jones has the newest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism: “The Bodmer ‘Miscellaneous’ Codex and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex MS 193: A New Proposal.”
On the web: Google Docs can now display page numbers in documents themselves and not just on a printed or PDF copy. Google Chrome Frame now has a beta version that does not require administrative privileges to install. The third edition of Emmanuel Tov’s Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible should be available around November 1 (HT: Peter Williams). Ben Witherington’s Is There a Doctor in the House? is apparently now available on Kindle (HT: Mark Stevens), although the printed text from Amazon is still forthcoming. Steve Caruso continues discussing the Jordanian lead codices. Zotero releases some significant updates to their 3.0 beta. Peter Head reports that the Green Collection at Bethel University has acquired a new 1 Corinthians manuscript in addition to the Hebrews manuscript that had already been announced. Logos Bible Software adds The Babylonian Talmud: Original Text, Edited, Corrected, Formulated and Translated into English (19 vols.) to their community pricing program.
On the web: Steve Caruso connects one of the recently-discovered Jordanian codices to a coin from the era of John Hyrcanus I (HT: Jim Davila) Brian LePort surveys interpretations of ἡ κτίσις in Rom 8:19–22. John Byron notes a “music video” that particularly appeals to doctoral students. Dirk Jongkind considers Margaret Sim’s Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek: New Light from Linguistics on the Particles ἵνα and ὅτι. Klyne Snodgrass has an article in Bibliotheca Sacra where he re-presents some of the issues he discussed in his 2010 lecture series at Dallas Seminary (HT: Brian Tucker).
On the web: Stirling Bartholomew considers Ezek 37:1b. Yonatan Adler lectures on “The Tefillin of Qumran: Archeology and Halacha” this Friday (HT: Jim Davila).
In yet another loss to the field of Biblical Studies, C. K. Barrett passes away (HT: Michael Halcomb).
On the web: James McGrath reflects on the value of liberal arts education. Emily Runde comments on the British Library’s ongoing exhibition of “illuminated” manuscripts from the “Dark” Ages, providing several stunningly vibrant page scans.
Eugene Nida has passed away. For the official press release from the United Bible Societies, see here (HT: N ijay Gupta).
On the web: Alan Bandy discusses faith and scholarship. Tim Henderson discusses the possibility that σωτήρ was a late-developing nomen sacrum ( part 1, part 2). Dirk Jongkind highlights some of Philip Davies’ recent comments on the Jordanian lead codices. Robert Woods reflects on reading Cicero’s On Old Age with college freshmen.
Recently, on the web: The Centre for Public Christianity has a three-part interview with Lynn Cohick about women in the Greco-Roman world (HT: Michael Bird, John Byron). Brian LePort discusses the future of seminary education. Tim Henderson comments on a selection from Justin Martyr’s Dialog with Trypho. Joel Willitts discusses elegance in writing.
Recently, on the web: Tim Henderson discusses what information Celsus provides about heresy and orthodoxy in early Christianity. Libby Nelson summarizes the state of financial aid after the removal of federal student loan subsidy for graduate students.
Edzell Castle, Angus, Scotland Last fall, the Great Books Honors College at Faulkner University launched the Christian Institute for the Study of Liberal Arts and welcomed the Institute’s first class of Master of Letters students. The Institute will also soon add Bachelor and Doctor of Letters programs. These highly interactive and integrative programs are entirely online and powered by Google Apps for Education, in conjunction with Skype and Blackboard. ...
Recently, in cyberspace: Princeton Seminary announces that it will host “Creation, Conflict, and Cosmos,” a conference on Rom 5–8, May 2–5, 2012. The British Library adds 24 new manuscripts to its online collection. Robert Woods reflects on some of Mortimer Adler’s comments on education. Mark Bauerlein discusses Stanley Fish. Peter Williams reviews the SBL Greek New Testament. Brian LePort posts a brief video clip of N. T. Wright pondering sacrifice. Jim Davila notes the online availability of Jared Calaway’s dissertation, “Heavenly Sabbath, Heavenly Sanctuary: The Transformation of Priestly Sacred Space and Sacred Time in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the Epistle to the Hebrews” and mentions the online availability of Frederick Field’s 1875 edition of the then-extant portions of Origen’s Hexapla. Tim Gombis starts blogging (HT: Joel Watts). Zotero releases its own plugin for WordPress.org users.
Recently in the biblioblogosphere: Brian LePort discusses the value of the humanities. Jim Davila notes some new Rabbinic Studies resources by Tyndale Tech. The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (re)discovers four New Testament manuscripts (HT: Tommy Wasserman). Matthew Malcolm notes a free article by Anthony Thiselton, “Wisdom in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures: Wisdom in the New Testament.” Matt Emerson, another Southeastern spring PhD graduate, has freshly started blogging at Intertextual Interpretation.
Recently in cyberspace: Logos Bible Software is nearly ready to produce an electronic edition of the Eerdmans Biblical Resources Series. Todd Bolen finds an ancient “Lego” from Cos. Logos Bible Software launches a new trade ebook app, Vyrso, and expects to offer 25,000 ebooks through this app by the end of the year. Through June 3, Logos also has the Chesterton Collection on sale (60% off). Cynthia Nielsen discusses the Confessions as “An Augustinian Improvisation on Bakhtin’s Two Categories of Discourse.” Roger Pearse discusses “Greek text critical marks as described by Diogenes Laertius” (HT: Tommy Wasserman). Charles Jones digests some recent news from the Perseus Project. B-Greek has moved (HT: Stephen Carlson). Mark Stevens relaunches his blog as the Parson’s Patch. Leonard Kish discusses “Socrates, social media and the new dialectic.”
Joel Watts has up May’s “unsettled” biblioblog carnival, and last month, Joel Watts et al. unseated Jim West in the Alexa biblioblog ranking. Among this past months top 50 biblioblogs by Alexa rank, the top 10 student biblioblogs are: ...
Recently in cyberspace: Sofiya Melnykova notes that Open Culture is collecting lists of free ebooks and audiobooks. Matthew writes that Amazon is preparing to release its own line of Kindle tablet devices. Uniting Church Theological College (Melbourne, Australia) seeks a Professor of Old Testament (HT: Tyndale House). Jeremy notes the availability a Hebrew Bible, according to the Westminster Leningrad Codex, for Kindle ( part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). Tommy Wasserman reports that Evangelical Textual Criticism is now on Facebook. Stephen Carlson lists errata for Swanson’s collation of G and 1735 in Galatians and discusses “The Position of με in Acts 20:23” Georgia State University seeks a Visiting Instructor of Hebrew. Logos Bible Software has released a free Czech Study Bible, is almost ready to ship the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary, and for a limited time, they are also offering the Baker Theology Collection (11 vols.) for about 31% off with the coupon code “AEBTC9621.” John Meade reflects on recent funding issues for humanities and Biblical Studies projects. Nijay Gupta highly recommends Croy’s Prima Scriptura and discusses “The Question of Coherence in Philo’s Cultic Imagery: A Socio-literary Approach” in the current issue of the Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha. Evernote’s extension for Google Chrome gets a substantial update: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOiCOmgXmc&w=450] Cynthia Nielsen considers Augustine and non-modern autobiographical confession ( part 1, part 2, part 3). Rob Bradshaw (May 4, 2011) posts George Mavrodes, “The Inspiration of Autographs,” Evangelical Quarterly 41.1 (1969): 19–29 (HT: Peter Head). Trevin Wax reproduces and reflects on some of N. T. Wright’s comments about Rob Bell’s Love Wins (HT: John Byron), and Josh Graves posts the original video of Wright’s comments (HT: Matt Dabbs). Concordia University seeks an Assistant Professor of Theology (Old Testament, Hebrew Scriptures, or Hebrew Language Emphasis).
Recently in cyberspace: Logos Bible Software adds the Major Works of Justin Martyr in Greek to their pre-publication program and the Desiderius Erasmus Collection to their community pricing program. Brian LePort celebrates six years of blogging. Walmart begins selling Amazon’s Kindle 3G+WiFi and Kindle with Special Offers (HT: Matthew). James McGrath reviews Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man. Ben Myers lectures on Augustine’s De Trinitate (HT: Brian LePort). Larry Hurtado discusses monotheism and worship. Exploring Our Matrix and Euangelion are moving to Patheos.com. Michael Bird discusses the Johannine purpose statement ( part 1, part 2). Marybeth Gasman identifies some “Roadblocks to Doctoral Success.” Kathleen Fitzpatrick discusses Digital Humanities. ...
April DeConick points out that the Clairmont Colleges Digital Library has put online a number of images of the Nag Hammadi codices.
On Friday, Southeastern Seminary’s Graduate Studies faculty accepted my dissertation, “The Hermeneutical Roles of the Teacher of Righteousness and of Jesus of Nazareth in the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts and in the Epistle to the Romans” ( abstract). This acceptance followed Wednesday’s oral defense where the committee had passed my project with minor revisions (i.e., correcting some remaining errata, describing a few further implications). The Southeastern committee members included Andreas Köstenberger and Benjamin Merkle, and I was also privileged to have James Charlesworth as the project’s external reader. ...
This week in the cyberspace: Robert Woods discusses “Christian humanism.” Jeremy Thompson passes his oral dissertation examination. Congratulations! Mark Stevens points out that a new book on Jesus and a new translation of the New Testament are forthcoming from N. T. Wright. Jim Davila reminds us about the upcoming Metz conference on Paul and Qumran. Joel Watts and Matthew note Amazon’s announcement of a library lending service for Kindle. David Perry provides a major update to the Cardo font (1.04). The Connecticut House of Representatives approves a certificate program in Talmudic Studies (HT: Jim Davila). Ron Kubsch notes Amazon’s creation of a German Kindle store.
This week in cyberspace: Tommy Wasserman mentions the discovery of a new, early papyrus fragment of Hebrews. James McGrath comments on Loren Stuckenbruck’s presentation at the recent Stone-Campbell Journal Conference. Amazon announces that an advertisement-sponsored Kindle WiFi is available for pre-ordering. Logos Bible Software releases a specifically academic training DVD set.