I'm happy to share the schedule for the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible 's upcoming conference on May 25 at ...

Over at Ancient Jew Review , Adele Reinhartz has a fascinating retrospective on her contributions to the scholarly study of the Gospel of Jo...

I confess that whenever I hear about some newly discovered bit of fancy material evidence, I'm immediate skeptical. This was the case wh...

BBC 4 reports on an image found in a catacomb in San Gennaro, Naples. The image suggests that Christianity continued to employ female bishop...

Will Theiss has written a nice article on Ernst Renan for Marginalia. It provides fascinating backdrop for Renan's scholarship and (I do...

The Jesus Blog is pleased today to publish Wayne Coppins's detailed review of the new Jesus Handbuch , edited by Jens Schroeter and Chri...

The true random number generator has spoken.  The winner of the Snodgrass second edition from Eerdmans is the owner of comment 3. True Ran...

Allow me to say first and foremost, I personally hold the late Billy Graham in high regard. While I can find problematic elements of his ...

"Bush was so bad that people said, 'Hey maybe this black guy has the answers.' I think people overlook George Bush's co...

This the recipe for my  "Forgive-Me-Jesus Coconut Curry Soup." -anthony I. Stage one: thank Jesus that you have been pr...

On May 25, 2018, CSSSB will host a day conference on "Christian Origins and Social-Scientific Criticism: Past, Present, and Future....

I suspect that a few of you readers of the Jesus Blog have been snipe hunting.  If you haven't been, please let me know and I'll or...