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I am a big fan of the "Biblical Studies Carnival", which aims to gather together highlights each month from across the blogosphere on posts broadly relevant to Biblical Studies. Two have recently been published back to back, a treat for enthusiasts for the genre:

Biblical Studies Carnival XXX (by Tyler Williams)

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXI (by James R. Getz, Jr.)

As I have commented before, the more the bibliogging world expands, the more helpful these carnivals become. Unfortunately, the more the biblioblogging world expands, the more difficult it is for the authors to gather together the relevant information. Some go searching extensively; others, quite reasonably, limit their carnivals just to the things submitted to them. I am afraid that I have never offered to do one of these, and I have twice turned down requests to do one. I know that I would simply not have time to do a decent job, something that fills me with admiration for those who continue to produce the goods. Thanks again to all concerned.

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And still the wonderful reminiscences of Henry Chadwick are pouring in. Tomorrow's Times has the following:

Lives remembered: The Very Rev Professor Henry Chadwick

They are all worth reading, but I loved this in particular from Canon Tim Roper:

Henry would arrive, panting, straight from the hockey field, at 4.02 for a 4pm supervision. In his rooms he used to dash behind a screen while we sat demurely. “Prophesy!” he would call, and we would read our essays to a blank screen from which emerged sounds of one changing. Finally, Henry would appear, dapper as ever, and deliver himself of learned thoughts about Bultmann, form-criticism, or whatever. Thirty years later I met him. He still remembered.

And for "Smite the Amalekites", you'll have to go to the article.

See also Death of Henry Chadwick, More on Henry Chadwick and Henry Chadwick: More Lives Remembered.

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Today's Times also has further on Henry Chadwick in its "Lives Remembered":

Lives Remembered: Henry Chadwick

See also Death of Henry Chadwick and More on Henry Chadwick

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Today's Times had its obituary of Christopher Stead:

Canon Christopher Stead: distinguished patristic scholar

For earlier obituaries, see Christopher Stead Obituary.

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Latest from the SBL Review of Biblical Literature under the NT and related heading (composite post of the last three announcements):

Bradford B. Blaine Jr.
Peter in the Gospel of John: The Making of an Authentic Disciple
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6111
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Markus Bockmuehl and Donald A. Hagner, eds.
The Written Gospel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5285
Reviewed by David C. Sim

Sebastian Brock
The Bible in the Syriac Tradition
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5853
Reviewed by H. F. van Rooy

Gregory W. Dawes
Introduction to the Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6043
Reviewed by Randall L. McKinion

Jane DeRose Evans
The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6191
Reviewed by Mark A. Chancey

Victor Paul Furnish
1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6202
Reviewed by Eduard Verhoef

Paul M. Hoskins
Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6241
Reviewed by Mary L. Coloe
Reviewed by Nicholas H. Taylor

Ådna Jostein, ed.
The Formation of the Early Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6032
Reviewed by Markus Oehler

Bart J. Koet
Dreams and Scripture in Luke-Acts: Collected Essays
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6036
Reviewed by David L. Tiede

Jerome H. Neyrey
Give God the Glory: Ancient Prayer and Worship in Cultural Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6113
Reviewed by Tony Costa

Birger A. Pearson
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6053
Reviewed by James F. McGrath

Calvin J. Roetzel
2 Corinthians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6204
Reviewed by Frank J. Matera

Karl Friedrich Ulrichs
Christusglaube: Studien zum Syntagma pistis Christou und zum paulinischen Verständnis von Glaube und Rechtfertigung
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6022
Reviewed by Günter Röhser

Ward Blanton
Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6059
Reviewed by Claire Clivaz

Brian Brock
Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6049
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Albert Eichhorn; trans. Jeffrey Cayzer
The Lord's Supper in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6154
Reviewed by Sakari Hakkinen

Volker Gäckle
Die Starken und die Schwachen in Korinth und in Rom: Zu Herkunft und Funktion der Antithese in 1Kor 8,1-11,1 und in Röm 14,1-15,13
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6018
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek

Mike Graves and David M. May
Preaching Matthew: Interpretation and Proclamation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6164
Reviewed by Craig S. Keener

Fredrik Lindgard
Paul's Line of Thought in 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6015
Reviewed by Thomas Schmeller

Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray, eds.
Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6192
Reviewed by Leonard Greenspoon

Brian S. Rosner
Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6103
Reviewed by H. H. Drake Williams III

John H. Elliott
Conflict, Community, and Honor: 1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6127
Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Cristina Grenholm and Daniel Patte, eds.
Gender, Tradition and Romans: Shared Ground, Uncertain Borders
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5208
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

John Paul Heil
Ephesians: Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of All in Christ
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5930
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis

Lieve M. Teugels and Rivka Ulmer, eds.
Midrash and Context: Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBL Consultation on Midrash
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6008
Reviewed by Alex P. Jassen

Joseph B. Tyson
Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6126
Reviewed by Dieter T. Roth

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Latest from the Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 127, Number 2 / 2008 under the New Testament heading:

A Ghost on the Water? Understanding an Absurdity in Mark 6:49-50
p. 345
Jason Robert Combs
http://jbl.metapress.com/content/b0240723l4414652/

Moral Vision and Eschatology in Mark's Gospel: Coherence or Conflict?
p. 359
David J. Neville
http://jbl.metapress.com/content/u7jptt416546277t/

"Will the Wise Person Get Drunk?" The Background of the Human Wisdom in Luke 7:35 and Matthew 11:19
p. 385
Thomas E. Phillips
http://jbl.metapress.com/content/9107420177g1r32l/

Ioynian (Romans 16:7) and the Hebrew Name Yêunnī
p. 397
Al Wolters
http://jbl.metapress.com/content/1q77gj0251166117/

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I missed this one a couple of weeks ago in the Telegraph:

Canon Christopher Stead
Patristic scholar who wrote about the philosophy of the early Christian Church– and trains

I have only ever known him as a Patristics scholar, but the obituary carries the delightful additional information of his love of trains -- with a picture -- and this gem:

At 89 he published The Birth of the Steam Locomotive, a scholarly study reflecting a life-long interest.

When living at the 13th-century Black Hostelry, the former monastic infirmary at Ely, he used to maintain an O-gauge model layout in the attic, which had a branch line that went through a hole in the wall to deliver Christmas presents to his oldest son's bedroom.

Although he died on 28 May, The Times does not yet appear to have published an obituary. Today's Independent, though, has the following:

The Rev Professor Christopher Stead: Scholar of patristic thought who was the last Ely Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University
Lionel R. Wickham

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I noticed the obituaries in The Times, The Guardian, the Telegraph, the Church Times and Cambridge University on Thursday (Death of Henry Chadwick). There are several more to mention. The Times has more personal memories in Lives Remembered,

“There are only two types of young man to whom I would refuse admission to the House,” he said (with a clear glint in the eye). “The first is the young man who, by the tender age of 17, claims to have read the complete works of Dostoevsky.” After a beautifully timed pause for thought, he continued: “The second is the young man who, by the tender age of 17, actually has read the complete works of Dostoevsky!”

The New York Times has an obituary too:

Henry Chadwick, Scholar of Early Christianity, Dies at 87
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

And on Saturday, The Independent published an obituary by Andrew Louth, from which I will excerpt the last paragraph:

The Rev Professor Henry Chadwick: Historian of the early Church who held the Regius Chairs of Divinity at both Oxford and Cambridge
Andrew Louth

. . . . He was a tall man, with a slight stoop that gave him a somewhat Olympian air, enhanced by his habitual courtesy. He did not so much speak as pronounce, though this did not diminish the warmth of his conversation. In lectures, however, he performed, and, a born rhetorician, gave impeccable scholarship elegant expression. In a story he told against himself, he used to relate how, when giving some lectures in America, he was struck by three girls who came faithfully to his lectures and listened without taking notes; towards the end of the series he asked them how they had liked his lectures, and they replied saying they had no interest in what he was saying but just loved listening to his voice. He was an adornment to the world of academe; we may never see his like again.

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As Stephen Carlson (Hypotyposeis) and Loren Rosson (The Busybody) have mentioned, we have a session on Secret Mark in the Synoptics Section this year. The SBL On-line program has recently been updated so that it includes the following details:

SBL 24-97 Synoptic Gospels
11/24/2008
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room TBD - Hotel TBD

Theme: Secret Mark after Fifty Years

Mark Goodacre, Duke University, presiding

Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Twentieth-Century Fake" (20 min)

Stephen C. Carlson, Duke University, "Can the Academy Protect Itself from One of Its Own? The Case of Secret Mark" (20 min)

Allan J. Pantuck, UCLA, "Can Morton Smith's Archival Writings and Correspondence Shine Any Light on the Authenticity of Secret Mark?" (20 min)

Scott G. Brown, University of Toronto, "Fifty Years of Befuddlement: Ten Enduring Misconceptions about the 'Secret' Gospel of Mark" (20 min)

Charles Hedrick, Missouri State University, Respondent (20 min)

Bart Ehrman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Respondent (20 min)

Discussion (30 min)

More from the SBL program in due course.

Labels: SBL Boston, Secret Mark

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I was sorry to hear of the death of Henry Chadwick on Tuesday, also mentioned by Rob Bradshaw on Earlychurch.org.uk. Today's Times has the obituary:

The Very Rev Professor Henry Chadwick: priest and scholar

The end of the obituary mentions his college sermons. That was the only time I met him, when he came to preach at Exeter College when I was an undergraduate there. I still remember the topic, the Good Samaritan, and our discussion afterwards, which was about jazz and the Beatles.

Rob Bradshaw mentions the obituaries in the Telegraph and The Guardian. Tomorrow's Times has a piece in Lives Remembered, which, as usual, raises a smile:

. . . . Towards the end of his time as Master of Peterhouse, he confided to me that he had concerns about moving his books from the Master’s Lodge to his rather smaller house in St John’s Street, Oxford. “Do you have many books?” I fatuously asked. “About 20,000,” he replied, without any apparent perception that this was unusual.

When he was kind enough to sponsor my application for a reader’s ticket for the Bodleian Library, he signed off the necessary form as “Henry Chadwick, Master of Peterhouse”; but, clearly concerned that this style might not cut much ice at Oxford, he added “and sometime Dean of Christ Church”. There was not much space left after that but, evidently still uneasy, he found room to add “and Curator of Bodley”. In his covering letter to me, he wrote: “I hope the enclosed does the trick . . . ” It did.

There are also pages at the University of Cambridge tomorrow (though it wrongly gives his age as 88) and tomorrow's Church Times. The latter also has an obituary but it is subscription only.

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