Bible History daily asks and answers the question, "Who Was Cornelius the Centurion?" here. Not much new, but I found the brief discussion of Cornelius in the Coptic and Orthodox traditions interesting.
Sep 12, 2026
Cornelius
Sep 11, 2026
Free eBook: The Moral Teachings of Jesus
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Sep 10, 2026
Journal for the Study of the New Testament 49:1
The latest articles from of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament are available now. Here is a list of the articles and links to abstracts. The articles by Meyer and Finegan are open access.
Drinking in the Kingdom: The Last Supper ‘Vow’ of Jesus and His Death in the Synoptic Gospels
Michael Patrick Barber
Through a Glass Darkly: Pedagogical Potentials in the 2024 Survey of Pauline Studies
Zen Hess and Bruce W. Longenecker
Redescribing the Pauline Corpus as a Pseudonymous Collection of the Second Century
Nina E. Livesey
Flipping the Script in Phil. 2.6b: Setting ἁρπαγµός in the Religious Context of First Century Philippi
Matthew W. Meyer
The Gerasene Pericope and Disability Studies: Irony, Empire, and (In)complete Reintegration in Mk 5.1–20
Agnieszka B. Ziemińska
‘Daughter, Your Faith Has Saved You’: The Salvation of St. Veronica
Abigail Rose Thompson
Simon Peter’s Wife in (and out of) Early Christian Writings
Noel Cheong
‘Better Than I Ever Was’: ‘Not Enslaved’ as a Higher Status in 1 Corinthians 7.15
A. Andrew Das
Specifying πορνεία in Matthew 5.32 and 19.9 via Overlooked Contextualization
Thomas Finegan
Mark 8.24—An Apocalyptic Vision?
Mateusz Kusio
A Common Reading of Gen. 2.7? The Case of the Anthropologies of Philo, Paul, and the Gospel of John
Daniel Jackson
Some Problems with John C. Poirier’s ‘Two(-and-a-Half) Problems’
Jonathan Rowlands
What Meaning Is, and Why That’s the Case: Responding to Rowlands’s Further Remarks
John C. Poirie
Sep 9, 2026
The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature
The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.
Jennifer Barry, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination (University of California Press)
Emmanouela Grypeou
Samuel Hildebrandt, Kurtis R. Peters, and Eric N. Ortlund, eds., From Words to Meaning: Studies on Old Testament Language and Theology for David J. Reimer (Sheffield Phoenix)
Jonathan Gan
Donghyun Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (De Gruyter)
Seon Yong Kim
Vincent Lemire, Katell Berthelot, Julien Loiseau, and Yann Potin, Jerusalem: History of a Global City (University of California Press)
Anna Gutgarts
George Mutuku, A Cross-Cultural Conceptual Study of the Emotion of קצר in the Hebrew Bible and the Folk Theory of the Emotion of Ngoò in the Kĩkamba Language (Langham Academic)
David A. Bosworth
Jürgen van Oorschot and Andreas Wagner, eds., Biografie und Lebensalter: Zur materialen, soziologischen und theologischen Verfasstheit biografischer Bezüge (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Anja Marschall
Pekka Särkiö, Hidden Critique of Solomon in the Hebrew Bible (SBL Press)
John W. Herbst
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, and Pauline A. Viviano, eds., The Hunt for Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of Diana V. Edelman (Equinox)
Johannes Unsok Ro
Martin Shedd, Sean Tandy, and Jeremy M. Schott, Remembering Nicaea: The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus (SBL Press)
David Kneip
Anthony Spalinger, The Books Behind the Masks: Sources of Warfare Leadership in Ancient Egypt (Brill)
Sébastien Biston-Moulin