“[W]riters who perpetuate mistakes out of ignorance are to be pardoned and gently corrected, while those who do so deliberately should be condemned without mercy.” – Polybius, The Histories, 12.7.
- Adam Gopnik, writing for The New Yorker, has a piece on some recent scholarship concerning the apostle Paul, including the recently edited volume Paul within Paganism (Fortress Press, 2025). I read it through my Apple News subscription, but you can find it on The New Yorker‘s website.
- I recently got my hands on Brandon Grafius’ latest and I hope to have a review out for it around Halloween of this year. (I have a lot of reading to get through between now and then so we will see.)
- David Litwa responds to Michael Bird’s review of Litwa’s Marcion: Gospel of a Wholly Good God. It’s a doozy!
- If you’re needing some reading material, Matthijs den Dulk’s Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul is available for a free download!
- Paul Davidson looks at Revelation 13’s weird beasts and fleshes out the Jewish and pagan sources that stand behind it. He likens it to an Avengers film where various characters make cameos.
- Sarah Emanuel talks with Ryan Lambert about her recent book Wrestling with Paul. I hope to get my hands on this one soon and offer a review. In the meantime, here is an excellent interview with Emanuel.
- Gregory Paulson talks about UBS 6th edition of the Greek New Testament and some significant changes from the 5th edition. For example, the Pauline corpus is placed after the Catholic Epistles. (If you use Tyndale House’s Greek NT this shouldn’t be an issue.)
- Robyn Walsh talks about the origin of the Gospels with CJ Cornwaithe.
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