Interpreting the NT with Coins

My first post at Near Emmaus has just gone up, and I encourage you to go check it out, if New Testament interpretation is your thing. It involves ancient coins, Revelation, and the mark of the beast.

Hope that whets your appetite.

Numismatics: An Underutilized Tool for NT Interpretation?

Exciting Announcement!

As of this week, I will officially become a regular contributor at Near Emmaus, consistently ranked among the top ten biblioblogs on the web over the last couple years. I am incredibly excited to offer my thoughts via this well-established forum.

For those who are uninterested in New Testament biblical studies and theology, fear not! I will still be posting fairly regularly here at Everyday Revolutionary (although if you're not interested in New Testament biblical studies and theology, odds are great that you stopped reading my blog a looooong time ago).

Thank you all for reading and for sticking with this little blog over the last three years, and I look forward to posting more here in the future. I'm coming up on my 200th post soon, and to celebrate I plan to give away several books from my personal library. Stay tuned!

Regional SBL Conference

On March 17th and 18th, I will be attending the Central States Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in St. Louis, and I'm already so excited! According to the lineup, it looks like there will be a good variety of papers presented this year—ranging from Luke's use of imaginative geography in Acts to (apparently) how translators edit out Ezekiel's cuss words. I am thrilled about getting the chance to hear Paul scholar Mark Nanos speak, and looking forward to perusing the books in the publishers' book display room. I have already sorted through the sessions I will be attending, and these are a few that I found most appealing:

—Sunday—

1:30 p.m.—Jared Chatfield, “What Are the Philistines Doing at Beth-Shean? Archaeological Implications for 1 Sam. 31”

4 p.m.—Mark Nanos, “‘Judaizers’? ‘Pagan’ Cults? Cynics?: Reconceptualizing the Concerns of Paul’s Audience from the Polemics in Philippians 3:2, 18-19” 

—Monday—

9 a.m.—Matthew Wade Umbarger, “‘He Was With the Wild Beasts’: Echoes of 1 Maccabees 2:30 and 2 Maccabees 5:27 in Mark 1:13” 

10 a.m.—Richard Freund, “The Church of the Annunciation and Mary’s Well” 

-OR-

10 a.m.—Sidney A. Martin II, “Christ the Conquered King: Further Reflections on the Triumph in Mark” 

1:30 p.m.—John E. Christianson, “The Centurion in History and Literature: A Context for Reading in the Gospels” 

3 p.m.—John T. Strong, “Censoring the Prophetic Word: Translating Ezekiel’s Profane Speech for General Audiences” 

4:30 p.m.—Tom Schmidt, “The Rhetorical Use of Irony in the Book of Revelation”