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Patrik Hagman of the blog God in a Shrinking Universe has a fascinating post about Christians in Syria . Christ was born in Palestine, but ...

Willi Marxsen advocated that Matthew was a legalistic because in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew presents Jesus as giving moral imperatives...

Towards the end of last week I had some correspondence with Wade Burleson (Pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Oklahoma and a Trustee of th...

Craig A. Evans Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005 $35 USD // £ 20...

Michael F. Bird The peril of modernizing Jesus and the crisis of not contemporizing the Christ Anna M. Robbins Something in common? The huma...

I'm reading through Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities , and I'm shaking my head against the view that a cartel of proto-orthodox...

Karla and I are visiting some friends up in the Twin Cities (that's Minneapolis-St Paul for our non-Americans) this weekend--North Park ...

During a game of trivial pursuit I once came across a question which asked, "What colour hair did Judas Iscariot have?" I have re...

Here at the Highland Theological College we are seeking a Development Officer to add to our staff. The Development Officer will be responsi...

The latest issue of New Testament Studies includes the following articles: Who Comes from the East and the West? Luke 13.28–29/Matt 8.11–12...

For those that don't know, James Barr, distinguished hebraist and biblical scholar who exposed grave flaws in the traditional approaches...

The Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary of Forthworth, TX have voted to include a doctrinal statement effectively banning...

I've been lucky of late to have had a few invitations to speak at various postgrad seminars around Scotland including New College, Edinb...

Last night I was reading some of Richard Bauckham's new book to my daughter - no, not Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (my six year old daught...

Over at Stuff of the Earth Michael Pahl has a good post on Bruce and Stott on Evangelicalism . It includes an interview with Stott from Chr...

On Evangelicalism, Bruce writes: "I cannot remember a time when I did not hold this to be the essence of the gospel [Jesus' sacrifi...

A new reprint of Sanders' classic book has just been released and is available at Amazon.com for those interested. Coincidentally, toda...

"On another visit to America I participated in the twenty-fifth anniversary conference of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in ...

Those into Lucan studies should take note of this book by C. Kavin Rowe of Duke University. I've only read the conclusion, but it seems ...