From Ben Witherington’s blog: THE SMOKING GUN—TENTH TALPIOT OSSUARY PROVED TO BE BLANK Joe Zias is a fine archaeologist of long standing and good reputation. He is the person who catalogued the ten ossuaries from the Talpiot tomb, and personally catalogued the tenth ossuary. He worked with Amos Kloner as […]
Thank you CH for a job very well done! Biblical Studies Carnival XV, in Memory of Bruce Manning Metzger Welcome to the fifteenth Biblical Studies Carnival. I am pleased to host the carnival on such an auspicious numeration (too bad it couldn’t be a multiple of 6, then I’d be […]
You may recall that I was trying to figure out how to share pictures with family and friends while keeping predators and nosey parkers away. I have been redoing our family website as a WordPress blog and decided to try the password protect feature for posts and pages. Problem solved! […]
Letters Dimissory Clergy may transfer canonical residence from one diocesan jurisdiction to another by presentation of Letters Dimissory from the ecclesiastical authority of the former diocese to the ecclesiastical authority of the new diocese. It is a testimonial by the ecclesiastical authority of the former diocese (typically a bishop) that […]
The SBL Call for Papers deadline is still March 1 (midnight tonight!), and I encourage all Aramaists out there to propose a paper for our session! But AAR has extended their deadline to March 7th. Call for Papers Deadline Extended to March 7! The 2007 AAR Call for Papers deadline […]
NPR’s Morning Edition just did a fairly balanced piece on the announcement of the Tomb movie and book. Only a summary is up at the moment, but the audio will go up shortly after the program ends and a transcript by tomorrow.
In keeping with my laziness of merely pointing to other bloggers who have done more work on this, I will point readers to Tyler Williams’ excellent round up of the latest and greatest biblioblog discussions regarding the Talpiut tomb. The Jesus/Talpiot Tomb: Around the Blogosphere The hype surrounding the forthcoming […]
I have been following this story, but I have not been blogging since I do not yet have anything to say. Jim has a number of good links below and like him I will wait until I can review all the evidence before commenting in any detail. The Talpiot Tomb […]
Not posted yet, but The Daily Show had a special session on “Fashion Week in God” with Samatha Bee. Look for it here. God was a special guest and described Rt. Rev. Katherine Jefferts Shori’s investiture vestments as looking “like Grimace.” UPDATE: Here is is: