John Barton The Nature of Biblical Criticism Louisville/London: Westminster John Knox, 2007., pp. 206, paper back. Available through Alban B...

Registration is open for Together for the Gospel 2008 (T4G). Last year I had some impassioned things to say about T4G in a previous post (...

Mk. 5.1-20 (= Mt. 8.28-34; Lk. 8.26-39) tells the story of Jesus' encounter with a wild demoniac on the eastern shore of the Sea of Gali...

Torrey Seland has started a new blog called Research Notes on 1 Peter which will be a great way of keeping abreast of research into 1 Peter...

The christological battles of the third and fourth centuries of the common era focused on explicating the divine and human nature of Christ ...

There have been some interesting posts on Scripture in recent days including that by Michael Pahl on Popular myths of evangelicals: inerranc...

Christianity Today has an interesting piece on the Death of Blogs by Ted Olsen. While the gimmick may be passing for many, I think that bib...

I have benefitted from several of Arland Hultgren's books (e.g. The Parables of Jesus , Paul's Gospel and Mission , Jesus and his A...

As I often say, what makes someone an evangelical is how they articulate, proclaim, and live out the evangel. I love hearing good exposition...

Over at Apocryphicity , Tony Chartrand-Burke notes Walter Bauer's argument that heresy preceded orthodoxy in Edessa (contra Eusebius). T...

Michael Gilbertson God and History in the Book of Revelation : New Testament Studies in Dialogue with Pannenberg and Moltmann (SNTS 124; Cam...

I read that Michael Pahl is getting ready for the oral defence of his Ph.D thesis on 1 Thessalonians. Michael, here's some advice of wh...

I thought I'd draw attention to two books that have just come out dealing with the topic of messianic hopes and expectations in Judaism ...

One day I just happen to be in the SPCK bookshop in Durham when I began talking to a chap in the biblical studies section. I learned that hi...

Over at NT Resources Blog, Rodney Decker reviews Contantine R. Campbell's book Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative: Sound...

I am currently reading Michael Gilbertson God and History in the Book of Revelation: New Testament Studies in Dialogue with Pannenberg and M...

Ben Witherington is Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and I interviewed him about his forthcoming book on Scriptur...

I am by trade and by taste largely a Synoptics and Paul specialist who often pines for the exotic and sometimes esoteric jungles of Johannin...

And who says New Testament scholars and Theologians can't get along? This photo is taken from my recent trip back to Zion (aka Australia...

Ben Witherington introduces his new book Making a Meal of it: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper . Here's his description...