Tag: Early Christianity
Daily Gleanings (4 July 2019)
Brice Jones discusses the probable (and problematic) recent offering for sale of P.Oxy. 83.5345 (a “first-century” Mark fragment). Larry Hurtado discusses Darina Staudt’s, Der eine und einzige Gott: Monotheistische Formeln im Urchristentum und ihre Vorgeschichte bei Griechen und Juden (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012). According to Hurtado, the book is “particularly helpful, but has received a disappointing…
Daily Gleanings (12 June 2019)
Larry Hurtado surveys recent work on early Christian scholarship, primarily in Alexandria. INTF discusses the treatment of patristic citations in ECM.
Daily Gleanings (10 June 2019)
Citing a typical description of early Christian scribal culture, Michael Kruger comments: There are a lot of claims in this brief couple of sentences. Unfortunately, virtually every one of them is mistaken. Kruger then proceeds to discuss three ways in which this early culture was comparatively more professional and competent than it is often described…
Daily Gleanings: Thoughts from Larry Hurtado (31 May 2019)
Larry Hurtado discusses early Christian investment in texts with helpful reference to the detailed work of Randolph Richards, Paul and First-Century Letter Writing: Secretaries, Composition and Collection (InterVarsity Press, 2004). Larry Hurtado also discusses the nature of “extant evidence” and inferences based on it, specifically in terms of early Christian texts.
Currents in Biblical Research 11, no. 1
The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes: Kristin De Troyer, “The Seventy-two and their Many Grandchildren: A Review of Septuagint Studies from 1997 Onward” Nicholas Perrin and Christopher W. Skinner, “Recent Trends in Gospel of Thomas Research (1989–2011): Part II: Genre, Theology and Relationship to the Gospel of John” Timo S. Paananen, “From…
Digital Images of Nag Hammadi Codices
April DeConick points out that the Clairmont Colleges Digital Library has put online a number of images of the Nag Hammadi codices.