Back from SBL this week, tucking back into research and writing.

I didn't attend the session on Richard Bauckham's book since we'd already taken a close look here at St Andrews. If you haven't yet seen the post-SBL thread (noted by Goodacre, Davila, etc) by some San Diego panelists and many others, then I recommend you take a look at: What is to be done?

The contempt is just dripping sometimes, which guarantees that the thread will be delicious to most interested parties regardless of their persuasion.

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As has been mentioned, Richard Bauckham retired from his post as Bishop Wardlaw Professor of New Testament this last Wednesday. I wanted to comment it sooner, but it took me a while to upload the photo of him fielding questions on his last day in the Biblical Studies seminar—a seminar he founded at St Andrews sometime after his arrival here 15 years ago. It's been a privilege to learn from him.

Jim Davila posted his speech as head of school, and supervisee Mariam Kamell comments here.

The book we've been discussing for the last four sessions is Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. If you feel you're missing out, you can have a look at the blog series Chris Tilling ran on the book, or on the same site an interview about it with Bauckham. I hear the book is about to go on tour: first at Gordon-Conwell, then at both ETS and SBL in San Diego. Details for the SBL panel review of the book are as follows:

S17-79 :: Synoptic Gospels

11/17/2007. 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM :: Room: San Diego C - MM

Theme: Panel Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006)

Jeffrey Peterson, Austin Graduate School of Theology, Texas, Presiding
John Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Panelist (20 min)
Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale University, Panelist (20 min)
James Crossley, University of Sheffield, Panelist (20 min)
Richard Bauckham, University of St. Andrews-Scotland, Respondent (25 min)

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