New Book: Jewish Believers in Jesus

I commend to you a new book from Hendrickson:
Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries (eds. O. Skarsaune & R. Hvalvik).
I just obtained a copy yesterday and it looks fantastic. I remember it was coming down the pipeline when I was working at Hendrickson and they did an excellent job.
The list of contributors [...]

SBL – A Clarification

I emailed Matthew Collins (who helps organize SBL conferences) about the sessions on Nov. 16th and he mentioned that many of them are not open for anyone to attend.  He is not sure whether this ‘Pistis Christou’ session is open or not.  That makes me feel a bit better, but Matthew said that soon SBL [...]

SBL San Diego

The program for the upcoming SBL conference has now been online (www.sbl-site.org/congresses/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=7).  One of the unfortunate scheduling issues is that even though the conference technically begins on Nov. 17, there are a good number of sessions on the 16th that I wasn’t aware of when I booked my flight.  One session, in particular, appears very [...]

Reflections on some of the book reviews I have done (for what its worth)

I consider myself fortunate to have received some opportunities lately to review some published dissertations for some periodicals. It has been a very good learning experience to be forced to deeply engage in someone else’s research and see any gaps in their thinking and logical inconsistencies. I am happy to say that some [...]