While waiting for our coffee to brew (via the French press), a friend and I were chatting a bit about the scholarly workflow, the process of researching and writing (and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting). Shortly after, about an hour into my own work in the Gospel of Luke, I made a number of observations… Continue Reading
CSNTM reported yesterday: In November of 2011 CSNTM traveled to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) in Florence Italy. . . . Because of this trip, CSNTM is proud to announce the addition of new images of 28 manuscripts from the BML. This excellent collection contains papyri, majuscules, minuscules, and lectionaries. Among the many treasures we digitized was… Continue Reading
In an interview with Charles Halton at the Marginalia Review, Harvard Professor Jon Levenson shares writing advice he first received from his high school Latin teacher: She said one should never underestimate the audience’s intelligence nor overestimate their knowledge. The best course, she thought, was to assume one is talking to a highly intelligent group… Continue Reading
My friend, Ron Huggins, has noted some “Overlooked Aspects of the Case” regarding the James Ossuary debate. Most importantly, he questions whether the first part of the inscription might rather be the forged part instead of the latter: If there is any forgery at all it did not occur by the name “brother of Jesus” being added to… Continue Reading
A brief note, as mentioned to a few friends elsewhere: Happy to have my SBL Int’l proposal accepted, “Chiasm in the NT: Its Use and Abuse” (Methods in NT Studies section). I plan to structure the paper in a complex, difficult to decipher chiastic pattern through which my main points will be made. (Okay, that… Continue Reading
According to Richard himself, the end is near (“within weeks rather than months”) for the publication of his Seven Congregations in a Roman Crucible: A Commentary on Revelation 1-3. A few reasons I am looking forward to reading it: 1. He will interact extensively with primary sources (and not just literary texts!), yet attempt to give context when he… Continue Reading
In the next few weeks I plan to publish three book reviews here at the site. Each review will come out in multiple instalments (two or three most likely), and each review (but not each part!) should include a short video in addition to text. This has been in the hopper for far too long… Continue Reading
Nijay reviews a bit of the Festschrift in honor of Graham Stanton, Jesus, Matthew’s Gospel and Early Christianity: Studies in Memory of Graham N. Stanton (ed. D.M. Gurtner, J. Willitts, and R. Burridge; T & T Clark, 2011). One extended quotation stands out to me where Burridge recounts his Viva before Stanton: It was going alright until about half-way… Continue Reading
I have noticed that among biblical scholars, there are many different approaches to publishing. Here are a few I’ve jotted down that are, of course, not mutually exclusive: Publish or Perish: Publish on, well, everything, regardless of its originality. You have lecture notes and a publisher, after all! Publish and Progress: Publish on subjects which… Continue Reading
Through both my reading and past personal experience, I’ve noticed there are a number of scholars who insist that other students and scholars should become more competent in a particular area of research–the very area of research in which the insistent one is expert. The tool they best wield in their toolbox is the one… Continue Reading