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The last post here by Dan Wallace introduced the piece by Tony Burke on heresy hunting. 

The SBL forum graciously allowed me to respond
to the article entitled Heresy Hunting.
My response, Vetting Heresy Hunting, can be found at:

 http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=791

This entry is an interview in mp3 format. It was done for Moody Broadcasting's Prime Time and discusses the digitizing of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It aired last week. Enjoy.

Click here to play digitizing of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

This blog concludes the book review begun in our last two.

This blog continues where our last one left off. 

Spring 2007 saw the sensational claims by a new book and a Discovery Channel broadcast that the family tomb of Jesus had been discovered in the south Jerusalem Talpiot neighborhood.  The Ted Koppel special aired immediately afterwards pitted one of the book’s authors and a maverick scholar who supported him against a team of four biblical scholars, theologians and archeologists from evangelical, mainline Protestant and Catholic perspectives.  Now an outstanding anthology of scholarly respons

The discussions surrounding the recently discovered “Gabriel’s Revelation” (or “Dead Sea Stone”; see the posts below) have brought to the foreground the long-debated question of whether first century Judaism expected a suffering (and vindicated?) Messiah. This issue is closely related to—though broader than—the question of whether the “Suffering Servant” passages of Isaiah were interpreted messianically in the pre-Christian era.

Just finished the SNTS meetings in Lund, Sweden, a beautiful city in Southern Sweden, near Malmö, the country's third largest city. The university has been here since 1666. The meetings were a great time to catch up on all things New Testament.

The study of antiquities is fascinating business, but it can be quite dangerous because the contemporary scholarly impetus is to fill in the gaps, often with purely hypothetical conclusions, when a wiser path would be to discuss options and then acknowledge that the present state of our knowledge is limited. Scholars tend to say more than can be definitively shown, when a more prudent path would be to present data and be conservative in conclusions.