look what the cat dragged in

• John Byron wonders about a paradigm shift in peer review for scholarship
• Jason Goroncy tells a tragic tale about pastoral ministry
• Elizabeth McNamer digs up biblical women (HT Jim West)
• Edinburgh University has a blog on Christian Origins with some very respectable contributors
• James McGrath gives us all some tips on evaluating sources
• Tom Wright pontificates on the humanity of Jesus
• Jim West helps us to be more accurate about Jesus' speed and timing in Revelation
• Marc Cortez is giving away a big book on Romans
• Maggie Dawn shares a video on the 21st century enlightenment
• Someone is cleaning up the streets of Britain (HT Jim West)

Fast food education?

New Q&A site for Biblical Hermeneutics

This is under development and might interest.  What it really needs is a couple of serious biblical scholars to get in at the begining and help bring some direction to it, any takers?  If you are not a scholar they still need more members to get the site to launch properly, so if this is an area of interest and you have time to contribute, get in there.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1817/biblical-hermeneutics

Bibledex

Nottingham University are making a short introductory video for every book in the Bible, a great project.  Some of the videos are a little fluffy and annoying (e.g. Jude and Luke), but some are pretty good.  Go here to see them all, below is the one on 1 Corinthians.  Enjoy :-) (Oh yeah and watch out for Anthony Thiselton describing his 1500 page commentary on the Greek text as "a bit ridiculous"!)