I’m working on a paper on voluntary associations in the Roman world. The paper itself is not about Christ-confessing communities as associations, but is looking at the other evidence for collegia/thiasoi. Nevertheless, I was reading Stephen Wilson’s chapter to Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World and he had an interesting comment regarding Christian communities and [...]
Browsing the archives for the books category
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27 Nov 09
Here’s an opportunity for you. Many folks already know about the forthcoming Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture (Sheffield Phoenix Press) edited by Michael Gilmour and Mary Ann Beavis. They are still looking for contributors for an April 2010 deadline. Here is a description of the project:
This student-friendly resource will provide undergraduates with basic [...]
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Posted in books, dictionaries, writing opportunities
20 Nov 09
If you’re at or heading to SBL, and still checking your blog reader, I have a booth for you to check out in the book exhibition. Be on the lookout for Stony Run Publishing, who just came out with their first textbook, Interpreting Biblical Literature: an Introduction to Biblical Studies by Michael R. Cosby. For [...]
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Posted in Michael Cosby, SBL, books
24 Sep 09
Let us say that you have a limited amount of time because of, for example, your teaching responsibilities and your nine month old baby at home. And then, let us say you have an option to choose one of three books on Paul to write a five page review with your limited time. Which one [...]
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Posted in Paul, books
4 Sep 09
Picking up on the gender, gender, gender theme of the week, Mike has initiated a helpful new meme. As I was talking with a friend about the issue of female bibliobloggers, we wondered how the percentage of female bibliobloggers differed from the percentage of female biblical scholars. We tried to name as many female biblical [...]
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Posted in biblical studies, books, gender, memes, scholarship
15 Aug 09
So, you happen to pick up a book entitled Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practices in Early Judaism and Christianity (Brill, 2009), either for your research or just out of curiosity. The book is a collection of essays on themes of violence, rhetoric, and identity formation in ancient Judaism and Christianity.
When you flip to the index, [...]
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Posted in books, indexing
5 Jul 09
I am reading through Mike Bird’s published dissertation, Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission, as part of my Graduate Summer Research Mentorship at UCLA. Through that I noticed his 2004 article in Evangelical Quarterly, “Mission as an Apocalyptic Event: Reflections on Luke 10:18 and Mark 13:10.” If you are familiar with my research [...]
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Posted in Apocalyptic Thought, Michael Bird, books, mission, quotes
2 Jul 09
Though it is a late in coming, I was previously busy with my grand translation project earlier. So, here’s my stab at the five books meme begun and cataloged by Ken Brown. I was tagged by Kevin Scull and kind of unofficially by John Hobbins, so it’s time to live up to my tagged responsibilities. [...]
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Posted in books, memes
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Elsewhere . . .- Some Thoughts On Being A DSS/Second Temple Scholar agathos
- Mellon Seminar Reflection 1: What are T/traditions? April DeConick
- Quote of the Day (Bob Cargill) James F. McGrath
- Fall 2010 Term at Duke Stephen C. Carlson
- NT Blog Seven Years Old Today! Mark Goodacre
- Teaching the Bible e-pub latest Mark Goodacre
- Biblical Studies Carnival, and Other Blog News Mark Goodacre
- First blind PhD graduate in biblical languages? paleojudaica@talktalk.net (Jim Davila)
- CONF: Second Qumran Institute Symposium rogueclassicist
- Received: Jefford’s Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction (author unknown)
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A James Revolution!
Pretty much every book or commentary–and most articles–on James highlight the fact that James is one of the most neglected books of the New Testament, relegated to that catch-all category, the “catholic epistles”. For most protestants, following Luther’s declaration about it being an “epistle of straw,” James takes a backseat to Paul. The Anabaptists seem [...]