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My excellent colleague Professor Chris Keith has blogged about the development of our ‘St Mary’s model’ for PhD work in our Centre for the Social-scientific Study of the Bible, done at distance from our university, St Mary’s University, Twickenham. More details here in his blog post—do get in touch with me, Chris or our new colleague in New Testament, Professor...

Here are the Keynote slides from my talk this evening at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand on ‘Leadership, lifestyle and the book of Acts’. I’m very grateful to Professor Paul Trebilco for his kind invitation and hospitality. I aim here to look at what leadership looks like in Acts, arguing that the primary leadership to attend to is...

My friend Will Ross has hosted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, a periodic listing of interesting and worthwhile links around the web, including lots of the good blogs. Here it is. Thanks Will!

I’m catching up on reading at present, and have just read with great appreciation Larry Hurtado’s judicious and helpful summary on his excellent blog of what we can say about this important figure in 1 Enoch, and the possible implications (or not) for New Testament Christology. It’s well worth a read, not least because of the gorgeous statement about scholarly reconstructions...

   Following on from my notice of the sad loss of the eminent New Testament scholar J. Louis (Lou) Martyn, the excellent Beverly Gaventa has written a lovely obituary on the SBL website here. It’s well worth reading. To give you a flavour, here are the last couple of paragraphs: Lou’s life in all its parts reflected Christian commitment that was secure...