Dr Mark Goodacre
Dept of Theology
University of Birmingham
NTGateway.com
Gerd Theissen, The Religion of the Earliest Churches (US) / UK / DE
| Featured Links: March 2001 |
This month's featured links include two new sites that pride themselves on being so up-to-date. The Bible and Interpretation site appears to be able to pick up multiple links of relevance to the Biblical student, including many from the press. The second site, Jim Bacon's Jesus Archive, has a slightly more academic focus in a well-designed and up-to-date environment. The third link this month is that rare thing, a complete, on-line, old book worth reading. F. F. Bruce's The New Testament Documents still contains material of use to the introductory student, especially if that student is looking for a conservative perspective.
The Bible and Interpretation
Editors: V. Cox and M. Elliott: a site dedicated to providing "the latest news, features, editorials, commentary, archaeological interpretation and excavations relevant to the study of the Bible for the public and biblical scholars". This is a well-designed site with lots of links to the latest internet material on the Bible, and some original articles, with a special focus on Archaeology. While much of the content is excellent, some of the articles and links leave a little to be desired, but that is perhaps a price worth paying for the amazing frequency with which the site is updated. Each time you visit, you are likely to find something fresh of interest.
The Jesus Archive (Taken off-line, June 2003)
By James A. Bacon, Jr.: extensive, constantly expanding and up-to-date web site "dedicated to the Study of the Historical Jesus, Early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism". The site is well designed and features a useful directory of primary and secondary material available on the web, a database of scholars and book reviews and critiques by the author of the site. This is an enthusiastic but intelligent web site, a current highlight of which is the author's "Chat With Paula Fredriksen".
F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
(5th edition; Leicester: Intervarsity Press, 1960), reproduced at the World Invisible Web Site There are still only a handful of full length academic New Testament books on-line and usually, when one appears, it becomes one of our featured links. This is a classic apologetic book by one of the leading conservative scholars in the U.K. in the twentieth century. This book went through several editions, of which this is the fifth.
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