I haven't seen "Noah" yet.  I already know one thing about it, however.  It's absolutely nowhere near the best acting Russ...

Over the weekend, Christopher Rollston, currently a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University and next year taking up a post at George Washi...

In a post yesterday, Michael Halcomb drew attention to Michael Thate's argument that the contributors to Jesus, Criteria, and the Demi...

What do Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans have in common? Well, other than the fact that they both have never been in my kitchen , they both hav...

And Gran’ keep prayin’ and keep believin’ And Jesus, one day that ya see him Till they walk in his footsteps and try to be him The ...

Yesterday in the mail I received the first of my author's copies of Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict , whic...

I'm probably late to the party here as it was posted in 2010. Even so,  this virtual tour of the Second Temple is really fun. The backg...

A few weeks ago, the Huffington Post reported that the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for  The Letters of Paul  offered by Prof. Laura...

According to the True Random generator (which never lies), the magic number is 82! This means that "Mike S." wins three lovely...

Yesterday I posted this reflection on the so-called (and perhaps misnamed) "Blow Up in Baltimore." My post basically questioned P...

The Times of Israel is reporting that nine Dead Sea Scroll fragments have been brought to light. These are phylactery parchments. Her...

A couple months ago I posted a recording of a much-discussed recording of the papers and conversations of Paul Foster, Chris Keith, Zeba C...

I received wonderful news today. Talented scholar, good friend, and all around mensch, Ron Herms has been named Dean of the School of Huma...