New Technology, Books, and the Future of Education

This video here, with the first ever fully-interactive book, is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen with the application of books to a digital media.  It makes the Nook and other eReaders look terribly low-tech. When I see tech like this, see how it is transforming old media into new media, into a new [...]

Hernández and De La Torre: Rethinking Satan as Absolute Evil

There is a great article over at Bible and Interpretation by Hernández and De La Torre asking the question many of us have asked at one point or another: What is Satan’s role and what does that role say about God in the Bible?   I know I have asked why Satan gets such a [...]

Lead Codices Watch: Philip Davies Clarifies his Comments

I have been corresponding with Philip about his recent interview with the Sheffield Telegraph.  Since a lot of the conversation has been happening behind the scenes, I asked Philip for a comment to clarify his points, away from media bias, which I could post publicly.  Below are his remarks: Ok. Clarification: ‘Authentic’ means they are [...]

Teaching Archaeology to Undergraduates – ASOR

Perhaps we should send Elkington and Simcha on one of these. Teaching Archaeology to Undergraduates This Forum stems from the session “Teaching Archaeology to Undergraduates and K-12 Schoolchildren” co-chaired by Ellen D. Bedell and Eric H. Cline at the 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The theme of the 2010 session was the use of [...]

The Inscription from Madaba, Lead Codices, and the Mona Lisa of Galilee

Several new pieces of data have been brought to the attention of the listserv.  One was sent along by David Meadows.  Here (Google translated, since I don’t know Chinese) a blog analyzes the similarities of the Madaba inscription and compares it to the script on the tablet Thonemann looked at. Dan McClellan takes it a [...]

Dating Luke-Acts: Joe Tyson on Bible and Interpretation

Joe Tyson has another great article at Bible and Interpretation discussing the various implications for dating Luke-Acts, and argues persuasively in my opinion for a late date.  Please do read the article, entitled ‘When and Why Was the Acts of the Apostles Written?‘.  Here are some snippets: The range of proposed dates for Acts is [...]

Comment About Lead Codices and Media

Someone commented on my blog today about the status of the codices.  I want to highlight this post because I’m sure many laypeople out there are just as confused about the status of these codices as this commenter was.  This is the comment: On the face of it an extraordinary find – the more reason [...]

Bibliobloggers and Lead Codices

It seems all this commotion over these lead codices has taken its toll on the Biblioblogging community.  Everyone has snapped. “It was…it was just too much..” James McGrath spoke to me yesterday, his tone held a mixture of depression and apathy. “I don’t think I can even muster up a good joke about mythicists…” Joel [...]

Philip Davies on the Thonemann Essay « Zwinglius Redivivus

This will shed some light on Philip Davies’ interest in these codices, especially for all you naysayers out there: [Peter] Thonemann has been very helpful indeed in pinning down one of these. But I find it more important than he does to find out what has been going on. If he really can point us [...]

Daily Stupidity: Man Stuffs Chicken Down Pants

How does one think they can get away with this?  Seriously?  Shame on you, Joel Watts.  Shame. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville man is facing criminal charges after, police said, he attempted to smuggle poultry out of a grocery store by concealing it in his shorts. According to arrest records, Steven P. Malone was seen [...]