International Centre for Biblical Interpretation
Welcome to the blog for the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation at the University of Gloucestershire.
Welcome to the blog for the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation at the University of Gloucestershire.
10 April 2019
Staff and Students with friends of the Centre visited Roman sites in Wales in April 2018, focusing on Caerwent and Caerleon. At Caerwent we toured the well-preserved Roman walls, the Romano Celtic temple, and then the forum and the…
Read more10 April 2019
The second edition of the highly successful The Early Christian World edited by Philip Esler has been published and is garnering continuing positive attention.
Read more2 March 2017
Dr Pekka Pitkänen will be speaking at the Conference on Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research, in Basel, 16th to 18th March 2017, on the topic ‘Reconstructing the Social Contexts of the Priestly and Deuteronomic Materials in a non-Wellhausenian Setting.’
Read more2 March 2017
The OUP Blog site have published my blog on Babatha’s Orchard: An Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold.
Read more21 February 2017
Philip Esler’s new book, Babatha’s Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and An Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold is published by Oxford University Press on Thursday 23rd February 2017. The book applies the new historical methodology of archival ethnography to analyse four…
Read more16 December 2015
Earlier this year I published an article that interpreted Matthew 23 and the way that it presents the Jews, partly in light of the Second Vatican II document, Aetate Sua, which, inter alia, rightly absolved the Jews of blame in…
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