The latest issue of the Harvard Theological Review (free from here) has the long awaited articles regarding various analyses of the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife papyrus, including a point-countpoint-counterpoint between King and Depuydt (TOC below). From Harvard Magazine: The April 2014 issue of the Harvard Theological Review (HTR) includes King’s article (originally slated to… Continue Reading
It has been awfully quiet around here the past week and a half, and for good reason! My family of three became four (about 10 days ahead of schedule), and I am just now wading back into my work. Still more to come on the Bible software front, including a bit later this week. Continue Reading
I am nearing the halfway point of Watson on a close read (i.e., every word, every footnote), and I found Markus Bockmuehl’s recent JTS review to be a nice summary overall. I also agreed with many of the his critiques. One small point I wish Bockmuehl would have expanded (even with just an extra sentence): In particular,… Continue Reading
These are fun stories: In January, nine papyri documents almost 2,000 years old were discovered by a student in the Luther College library archives, where they had remained hidden in a cardboard box for decades. Luther sophomore Brittany Anderson was conducting a routine inventory of the papers of the late Orlando W. Qualley, longtime professor… Continue Reading
As mentioned previously, I wanted to share a bit about how I use Logos in my research. Even though the program is able to do a number of ancient language searches/functions, I generally save those for Accordance which I find superior in that regard. Instead, I use Logos primarily for reading various reference resources (including… Continue Reading
Anthony Le Donne, not only a self-described ‘moderate success’, but also hilarious, has compiled some business cards of biblical studies folks you may recognize. A few of my favorites: Continue Reading
For those who may be interested, over at the New College Readers Blog I have contributed a summary of chapter 3 of Watson’s Gospel Writing. Overall I am enjoying some of the broad epistemological/hermeneutical questions Watson raises, but I find a number of his detailed arguments about gospel origins problematic. More on this later. Continue Reading
This news has just arrived in my rss reader via Brice Jones’ blog, though the actually post link doesn’t appear to be working. Jones states: I learned through an e-mail from Prof. Louis Painchaud of Laval that the Coptic “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” will be published in the next issue of the Harvard Theological Review.… Continue Reading
I have a habit of carrying on with reviews of multiple resources at once, so I wanted to track them quickly and add one to the hopper. First, I am grateful to De Gruyter for sending for review Christoph Schaefer, Die Zukunft Israels bei Lukas (BZNW 190; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012). In addition to reviewing… Continue Reading
In the first part of my accordance review, I gave an overview of what the program does and mentioned some of the features new to version 10. Now I want to focus on a few other features that I find useful for my daily research. Layout. I like the ability to customize my layout. I typically… Continue Reading