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From Attalia, Paul sailed back to Antioch…
It is a privilege to spend time with friends in Antalya – right on the south Mediterranean coast of Turkey. (Incidentally, and quite interestingly, in Turkish, the Med is called ‘Akdeniz’ which means...
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A journey from Perga to the Lycus Valley
I had one day to sightsee in Turkey last week which was fabulous. I even came back a bit sunburnt (much to the chagrin of every rain-drenched colleague on my return). Quite fun to be able to say that I...
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Breathing life into the dry bones of ancient Corinth: Witherington’s Week in...
It seems that everyone’s joined in the cross-over craze. Rock stars are writing ballets and operas, chick-lit writers are getting elected to Parliament, and now a NT scholar has turned novelist. The...
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Pursuing Byron at The Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion
It has been a schoolboy dream to visit this place (yeah, I know; I was, and am still, a bit of a classics geek): the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion (the southern tip of Attica, just below Athens)....
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Thistles by Ted Hughes
Came across this highly evocative reflection on the archaeological secrets hidden under fields, in a sublime little book from Eland, The Ruins of Time (in their lovely Poetry of Place series). This is...
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Why should we trust the gospels?
As part of a new series to prepare for/coincide with UNCOVER happening at All Souls over this year, I did a talk on Sunday evening on the question of the historicity of the gospels. It’s a contentious...
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Diving into the OT deep end with Joshua’s Conquest
Well, I feel I rather drew the short straw at ASLP on Sunday with Joshua 11-12 as my passage – but then actually, each of the sections in the series has had its moments, so I realise I wasn’t alone!...
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Help, please, with the Jesus conspiracy behind Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code
Work on my book on suspicion, spies, conspiracies and the like continues apace (hence minimal blog posting) - but I’m wondering if some of you can help me a little bit. I’m currently working on some of...
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