Raves & Rants

  The posts collected here feature my responses to professional scholarship, conference presentations, and discussions among Biblioblogers. I raved about some and ranted about others, revealing undisclosed biases, not least my own. Enjoy!

1/21/24Go Read Rosson on Staples
1/19/23Why not Literary AND THEN Historical?
11/29/22Kelber, Bultmann, & Scholarly Games with Words
10/16/21Mark as Fiction? Mark as History? Mark as Represen...
1/11/21Passion for Histories
9/13/2020Susanne Luther, Ending the Genre Proxy War in Gosp...
5/22/2020Pressing on...
9/21/2019Gospels as Biographies
7/7/2019Barbara Hardy, Louis Mink, and David Carr
3/12/2019Historians Imagine Scenarios
4/3/2018#Narrative2018 Wishlist
12/25/2017The Academics' Christmas Stories
11/24/2017Loving and Learning at #AARSBL17
11/16/2017Jesus, Memory, and History at SBL: Top Picks
11/12/2017Historical Paul at SBL: Theory & Methods
11/4/2017Historical Inferences (Case Study JB1117)
5/27/2017Academic Status Update
5/7/2017"Connected Universe" and "the Five C's of Historic...
4/16/2017Which One Jesus? Whose One Jesus?
4/1/2017Reflections on #Narrative2017
3/23/2017#Narrative2017 Day One Highlights
3/23/2017#Narrative2017 Preview
11/25/2016Some Things I Learned at #SBLAAR16
10/9/2016Imagination is...
10/7/2016Men cannot be less bad. Men must be different.
10/4/2016Gospels as Narratives: Reference vs Representation
8/20/2016Exegesis before Historicity
6/14/2016Must Jesus scholars be historians too?
5/28/2016Beyond Reliability
3/15/2016Jonathan Bernier's Critical Realism
2/18/2016Mark's Ambiguous Christology
12/28/2015The Inevitability of Integration
12/11/2015Jesus Research: Hermeneutics or Hypotheses?
12/3/2015My NT/History Manifesto for 2016
8/10/2015The Reason I Do What I Do
8/5/2015Peer Review, Peon Review
3/16/2015The Structure of the Content of the Form
5/4/2014five Impressionist Horses vs one Realist Pegasus
4/13/2014Present Needs that drive Antiquarianism
2/5/2014Wright's Monolithic "Paul"
12/3/2013Gospel History vs Political History
10/14/2013Mmmm, shall we keep "narrative"?
8/27/2013The Top 4 Mistakes in NT Chronology
7/25/2013Does it matter (to you) whether Jeremiah Steepek a...
4/11/2013That's it. I'm at loggerheads with myself.
1/29/2013If Theology is OK, then History is OK
1/19/2013Chris Keith, Relative Literacy & Scribal Status
11/9/2012Don't get Miscouraged
10/18/2012Words Tyndale Invented
10/8/2012Scot McKnight's infuriating Jesus-Bubble
9/1/2012About Borg's Chronological Aims...
8/12/2012My long shift towards academia
6/18/2012Exercising Historical Imagination
6/2/2012OCD IV
3/7/2012Worthy NT and/or History Postings
1/27/2012Roger Beckwith's Blind Spot, (or) The Profitabilit...
1/26/2012Roger Beckwith's Blind Spot, (or) The Profitabilit...
1/25/2012Roger Beckwith's Blind Spot, (or) The Profitabilit...
1/24/2012Roger Beckwith's Blind Spot, (or) The Profitabilit...
11/27/2011Bauckham on Jesus (QOTD)
11/2/2011NTW QOTD
10/30/2011Back Links and Banter (October 2011)
9/10/2011Hoehner's Chronological Aspects
9/5/2011The Gospels and History
5/8/2011Curating Art - and my NT/History projects
3/19/2011Two Questions, on the Bethsaida controversies
3/17/2011Quote of the Decade
12/21/2010He's always Thirty-something
11/27/2010#SBL10 Highlights
9/7/2010History vs. Apologetics
9/1/2010NT and/or History Roundup (August, 2010)
8/1/2010from Biblioblogs this July
7/22/2010Hoehner's Unhistorical Aspects
7/21/2010Does translating scripture beget theological fixat...
7/11/2010The Battle for History
7/1/2010from Biblioblogs this June
6/30/2010Historical Probability
6/25/2010Have we no Christian historians?
6/21/2010Pulpit Fiction
6/19/2010New Page: Scholarpalooza
6/5/2010Diversity Timeline
6/1/2010from Biblioblogs this May
5/25/2010Y Jnny Cnt Rd d Bbl
5/21/2010Fear not the "Fifth Gospel"
4/21/2010Gorman vs. Gorman
4/21/2010Wright, Hays, and a 3rd Option(?)
3/17/2010Reading, with Gratitude
12/22/2009Ten Books of my 2009
12/7/2009Seminarians on History and the Gospels
12/3/2009Academic Link Love
11/24/2009Opinions? I got 'em.
11/24/2009N'awlins Day 7
11/24/2009Let's Split the Academy!
11/24/2009Francis Watson on Historical Criticism
11/23/2009N'awlins Day 6
11/22/2009N'awlins Day 5
11/21/2009N'awlins Day 4
11/20/2009N'awlins Day 3
11/19/2009N'awlins Day 2
11/18/2009N'awlins Day 1
11/16/2009N'awlins Schedule
10/23/2009Book Report
9/21/2009Exceptional Shared Items
9/11/2009Brushing Up
8/28/2009Law and Love
8/12/2009NT Historical Math
7/5/2009About This Blog
6/11/2009Against Context-Less Theology
3/9/2009Location, Location, Location (and Time?)
2/3/2009Church Bias and Biblical Studies
1/29/2009Feeder Teasers
1/4/2009Recent Shared Items
12/28/2008Ancient Greek was Heathen
12/19/2008Best Advice of 2008
11/1/2008Top 50 Bibliobloggers Team Results
8/30/2008The Ambitions of Amateurs