From cartoons to conferences via canon charts: a weekend round-up

A bit late – and perhaps a little hastily collected – owing to an inordinate amount of time spent trying to get my iMac running Snow Leopard in English instead of German.

I’m a sucker for Far Side cartoons, so I’m grateful to Dr Jim, whose Snow Leopard experience clearly went better than mine, for his link to the Far Left Side.

Ben Blackwell has been continuing his series of interview posts with Michael Gorman. Last month part one, this week parts two and three.

There were a whole raft of comments on the latest upgrade to the Nearly Infallible Verson, but Danny Zacharias had the best, and Eddie Arthur the most provocative.

Rob Bradshaw posted five articles from nearly forty years ago on Galatian problems by FF Bruce. One may not agree with Bruce, but he is a masterful example of combining clarity with courtesy.

I wish I were in New York this month. Deidre Good posts a notice of the Paddock lectures, to be given by the scarily deep thinking Sarah Coakley, whose style, substance and spiritual theology give Rowan Williams a run for his money. If any of you can get to them and post about them, you’ll be doing us all a service.

Ben Byerly points us to a pedagogically really useful canon chart.

Mary Beard looks at when the historian’s game of spotting influence can be really puzzling.

Alan Lenzi has a short but pointed post on the “M” word. Though I confess myself slightly puzzled that he’s found (or thinks he’s found) some scholars who won’t use it of the opening narratives of Genesis.

If you’re wondering about the third volume of Goldingay’s OT trilogy, take a look at the blurbs over on the IVP blog.

Julia O’Brien has a good read of the Jacob narrative.

Finally, a couple of reports from the British New Testament Conference. Nijay Gupta is a bit underwhelmed, while Mike Bird is as enthusiastic as a kangaroo on a pogo stick (as always).