- John Nelson looks at the darkened sun in the account of Jesus’s crucifixion and whether it was an eclipse.
- A little while back, Michael Kok began a series on the dating of the Muratorian Fragment.
- Mark Goodacre talks about “realized eschatology” and the influence of CH Dodd on Johannine studies.
- The team at Intertextual Bible posted a really interesting piece on the use of the book of Genesis in the book of Esther.
- Because this is my blog and because we all need more Weird Al in our lives, I hope you enjoy his recent appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. He sang one of my all time favorites, “The Saga Begins.” Man, does that bring back some memories!
- The second volume of Accessible German New Testament Scholarship came out back in August. It has some interesting looking pieces, including a review of Beverly Gaventa’s recent commentary on the epistle to the Romans.
- Ian Mills appeared on Mark Goodacre’s podcast to talk about his recent book The Hypothesis of the Gospels, which, by the way, is excellent.
Wait, what is “Weird Al” doing on a biblical studies blog? That is completely unacceptable- I mean…
Nah, just kidding. “The Saga Begins” is probably one of my favorites too, along with “eBay” and “Living with a Hernia.”
Those volumes on German scholarship might be worth a look. I recently came across a discussion on one forum in which someone mentioned that treating Mark as an “adoptionist’ gospel was much more typical in Germany than in the Anglosphere.
-J Source
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