Religion on J. David Stark

Daily Gleanings: DRH (30 December 2019)

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:24:37 +0000

The Database of Religious History tries to address the volume of scholarly literature being produced and the difficulty of keeping current with it all.

Daily Gleanings (23 April 2019)

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Gleanings about social media and religion, as well as newly digitized Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Upcoming Logos Resources (August 28, 2013)

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:19:50 +0000

Recently, I noted that an English Standard Version audio Bible was freely available with registration at Bible.is. This version’s Old Testament is also still freely available in MP3 format on Amazon.

Currents in Biblical Research 11, no. 3

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:59:32 +0000

The latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research includes the following:

Serge Frolov, “Sleeping with the Enemy: Recent Scholarship on Sexuality in the Book of Judges”
Jason Hood and Matthew Emerson, “Summaries of Israel’s Story: Reviewing a Compositional Category”
Coleman Baker, “Peter and Paul in Acts and the Construction of Early Christian Identity: A Review of Historical and Literary Approaches”
Bruce Worthington, “Alternative Perspectives beyond the Perspectives: A Summary of Pauline Studies that has Nothing to Do with Piper or Wright”
F. S. Naiden, “Recent Study of Greek Religion in the Archaic through Hellenistic Periods”

Circumcision (Clearly) Uncircumscribed in Germany

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:21:10 +0000

Jim Davila notes a report of a new German bill that explicitly permits the continued practice of infant male circumcision on religious grounds. The legality of the practice in Germany had been thrown into question by a related decision by the Cologne court earlier this year.