Saturday, April 18, 2015

Housekeeping note

  • here is a book review I wrote 
  • here is a footnote on some point of textual criticism
  • here is a video of my lecture to three hundred students
  • here is a definition of the word “is”
  • here is something about the Old Testament
  • etc.



  1. Peter Head said, "I can't stand untidiness in any form."

    There are dissertations begging to be written on this subject.

  2. Along similar lines of promoting blog activity, I think one of those widgets listing new responses would be helpful, somewhere visible near the top. Currently, unless a post is new (so that is is on the first page) and you happen to notice an increase in the number of comments, you really don't have any easy way of seeing (and being drawn into) any conversations that may or may not be happening. And even if you do find what was a good discussion, unless it's new, it doesn't really feel worth your time to add your two cents, as it will just be buried in the old posts and likely no one will interact with it. I think a "new responses" window would fix all that.

  3. When do we begin the "here is a picture of my cat" contest?

  4. Ask and ye shall receive, Ryan. I might add a few pro tips for the bloggers: 1. Use a picture with your post if you can. Even (especially?) if it's a picture of your cat. 2. Tag your posts whenever possible. 3. Avoid abbreviations in your titles (NT, TC, etc) for the benefit of Google.

    1. That is awesome! Thanks Peter. I am totally going to go back and comment on that post about the philemon conjecture now.

  5. Yes, there is currently a desperate need for more argument for the short reading in Mark 1:1.

  6. The New Testament in Bob Dylan songs:

    1. A more interesting project would be to mine the Bob Dylan lyrics for NT quotations or allusions and then determine whether any variant readings are involved. This could become the first volume in The NT in the Modern Popular Singers series.

      And why can't I insert a photo of my cat in my comments?

    2. I suspect there is a cat detector van in the vicinity:

    3. I reckon there probably would be a market for that series Maurice, with OUP.

    4. My thoughts were with Cambridge U. a favorable review in Tyndale Bulletin...