Ruminations on biblical studies, technology, economics, and sports from Jason A. Staples
Since it’s Easter weekend (hey, I know when Easter is this year—first time in several years I’ve known before the day itself!), I thought it would be good to take a closer look at a famous scene from the Synoptic Gospels: Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. The Gospel of Mark records Jesus praying [...] Read more »
Word is out (see the Better Bibles Blog, for example) that an updated version of the NIV will be released in 2011. Mark Goodacre (and a happy 6th anniversary of blogging to Mark) and others have already noted their hopes that the NIV finally drop “sinful nature” as a translation of σάρξ (sarx), which means [...] Read more »
I’m pleased to report that a few days ago I was informed that my paper on Romans 2, “Gentiles Who Keep the Law: Paul’s Law-Keeping Gospel,” was accepted for the Pauline Epistles section at the SBL Annual Meeting that will be held in New Orleans this November. The abstract is as follows: Romans 2 and [...] Read more »
I am still a bit numb after finally finishing my article “What Do the Gentiles Have To Do With ‘All Israel’? A Fresh Look at Rom 11:25-27,” the first piece in a radical reexamination of Paul’s Gospel and its apocalyptic assumptions and implications. The whole project started with work for a term paper on Jeremiah [...] Read more »
