It must be summer again . . .

. . . because memes are abounding in the blogosphere again. I’m always ambivalent about them.  On the one hand, it’s nice to be recognised by other bloggers as having something worth linking to.  On the other, one of my friends once suggested that they’re not far removed from chain letters… However, I’ve been tagged [...]

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Creating Jesus

As readers may be able to tell from the sudden flurry of posts, life around my place has become significantly less hectic.  The first of the end of semester exams begin today, so the students basically all have their heads down working and the things that have been taking up much of my creative headspace [...]

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Dynamic equivalence and inclusive language

In response to my previous post on dynamic equivalence, Mike Grondin asked some questions about my approach to inclusive language on the Gospel of Thomas email list. In particular he asked why I think that “kingdom” excludes women since women can be both subjects and rulers? why worry about the word “kingdom” when Coptic Thomas [...]

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gospels.net relaunch

Andrew Bernhard relaunched his gospels.net site this week.  It has a new look and in his words: It is now “an online resource dedicated to the Gospel of Thomas and other early Christian gospels” … The design is straightforward. It includes a blog, which will focus on providing the latest news relevant to the study [...]

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Dynamic equivalence in translation

I finally found time to have a look at Jim Getz’s Biblical Studies Carnival XLII, which contains links to some interesting posts and also has a Hitchhiker’s theme, so is doubly awesome. On it, I found links to AKMA’s series on exegesis.  The first post made me to think  about the whole issue of translation, [...]

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