SBL San Diego: Review Part 3: The Book Exhibition

Seeing scholars wander through the vast book exhibition hall is like seeing children let loose in a massive candy shop – drool and all! Well, I drool with the best of them! Of course, it was my birthday recently so I had some money to spend, but I was not as lucky as [...]

SBL San Diego: Review Part 2: Scholars to keep an eye on

Part of the fun of going to SBL is seeing some scholars in person whom you have always wanted to hear. This summer at SBL Vienna I got a chance to hear Gerd Theissen, Beverly Gaventa, and James Charlesworth. In San Diego I heard papers by Lou Martyn, John Barclay, Tom Wright, Loveday [...]

SBL San Diego: Review Part 1: Sessions

Well, after 16 hours of journeying I made it home safely from San Diego back to Durham’s crisp air and cloudy skies. In any case, it is good to be home! I wanted to give some thoughts on the conference, but in order to make it more manageable to read, I am writing [...]

Scholarship on 1-2 Thessalonians

In my pauline research, I am working through Paul’s letters (chronologically, hypothetically as they were written) and looking at how cultic metaphors are used.  My last couple of months have been in 1 Thessalonians.  Compared to Galatians and Romans there is very little good research on 1-2 Thess., but that is slowly changing.  As far [...]

CK Barrett in the pulpit as a nonagenarian

My family and I attend a Methodist church in Durham and Ben Blackwell (another Methodist) told me CK Barrett was on the preaching schedule for our area’s circuit a few times this year.  keep in mind, he just turned 90.  So, we decided to travel a bit further than usual to Langley Park to a [...]