A bit of an exciting update for me: I’ll be joining the team at Queensland Theological College in January as a Lecturer in New Testament!

The call for papers is now out for the Centre for Gospels and Acts Research 2025 conference, “Rebuilding the Fallen Tent? Re-discovering Ancient Tools for Hearing the Gospels and Acts”!!

I was away from here for a while, and my first post will echo my last one a year ago…

JGAR 8 has been published! Some great articles and book reviews.

JGAR 7 in the mail today!

Ethics question: If you find plagiarism in a textbook (written by an established scholar in a reputable university), what do you do? Do you notify the publisher and the university, or just the publisher?

Who is this adorable pup? What breed?

I wondered if that was the case, but it’s a pity that it hides the way that αδελφοί for the Gentiles mirrors the αδελφοί used to refer to the elders, highlighting the newly ratified unity between Jewish and Gentile believers.

Lecturing on Acts last night, I was discussing the recognition of Gentiles as "brothers" in Acts 15:23. A student commented that the NIV doesn't describe the Gentiles as "brothers" but as "believers". The Greek has "τοῖς... ἀδελφοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν". Anyone know why the NIV went with "believers"?