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With new academic year due to begin in the next few weeks I thought it would be good to update my visitors on recent and forthcoming developments across the “Theology on the Web” websites. File Formats for Articles Over the last few months I’ve been experimenting with different formats for the articles I upload. Since…
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The following 5 articles are now on-line in PDF: F.F. Bruce, “St. Paul in Rome, Part 1” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 46.2 (March 1964): 326-45. [Part 1 of 5] F.F. Bruce, “St. Paul in Rome. 2. The Epistle to Philemon,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Manchester 48.1 (Autumn 1965): 81-97.[Part 2 of…
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The Daily Telegraph carries the obituary of the Professor Martin Hengel who died aged 82 on the 2nd of July 2009. I particularly liked this paragraph: Yet although Hengel was responsible for a radically different approach to the New Testament, his conclusions were always comparatively conservative and reassuring to evangelicals and others seeking confirmation of…
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This question was raised last Saturday during a day conference on biblical archaeology at Tyndale House in Cambridge. Put simply the problem was stated as follows: Crucifixion normally involved nailing the victim to a horizontal beam through the wrist between the radius and the ulna (the two bones of the forearm). The nail was then…