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The process of translation revision is a grueling one, not least because English is a living language and the use and meaning of words keeps changing, and the finding of ancient texts with rare Greek usage keeps happening.    I remember once when a young girl who was reading the KJV came up to me…

I am happy to report that things have finally firmed up when it comes to filming the Hobbit (in two parts and in glorious 3-D).   The filming itself will begin in Feb. 2011 with the first film out in November 2012, and the second one thereafter.  The casting is also complete and includes  Martin Freeman…

The above is a picture of a Christian veteran in Lexington One of the truisms of history is that those who refuse to learn from the past, learn from the lessons of history, are doomed to repeat that past.   History never precisely repeats itself,  it is not cyclical, but nonetheless there is much to learn…

  There was a time when America had a love affair with trains, before the age when American families thought it was their birth-rite to own 2.5 cars. And so, for most of America, the passenger train went the way of the Edsel, and about at the same time as well. I remember in early…

David Batty is a British film producer and direction who works with an outfit called Far Away Films (and Big Book Media).  He is the person, with help from his aide de camp, Rob Slater who convinced me to come help them do the shoot for the Easter special for the BBC which will also…

I have been a fan of John Grisham for a long time, and I have read most of his ouevre, and have often wanted him to bring in more characters with genuine Christian faith,  since he is such a person, and certainly know how to portray them.  If you were hoping for this as well,…

At the end of my very brief four the BBC,  I managed to have a few hours catching up with the latest at Caesarea Maritima, where we now can find an amazing ocean front hippodrome (no its not where they race hippos!— hippus means horse).  Caesarea was the seaport that Herod built from scratch, so…

Students desiring to better understand the Greco-Roman world in which and into which the New Testament was written would do well to familiarize themselves with that world by reading the Greco-Roman classics (can you say Loeb classical library) and the major works of great classics scholars. Short of that, one can make a start by…

BELLINGHAM, WA–October 28, 2010–The Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software announced today the release of The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (SBLGNT), a critically edited Greek New Testament. For the first time ever, students, teachers, pastors and laypeople throughout the world can access a reliable, critically edited version of the Greek New Testament…
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