My Regensburg Year, Part 2: September 2024
Our second month in Regensburg included a visit from home, an encounter with a “climate event,” and a meeting with the boss. When we told our family and friends about our year-long stay in Regensburg,...
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Christian Apocrypha at SBL 2024
The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs from November 23 to 26 in San Diego, California. I won’t be attending this year, but I can still post my usual roundup of sessions and...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 3: October 2024
It’s October in Regensburg and the weather is finally becoming seasonal. Long gone now are the heat waves of August and September; we have even turned on the heat a few times. For some reason, the...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 4: November 2024
Winter has come to Regensburg. Who would have thought it would be so . . . misty? There have been a few flurries but most of the time the sky has been grey and the air heavy with water. Not rain, just...
View Article(Too Far) Beyond Canon: Has the Re-defining of “Christian Apocrypha” Lost Its...
The following is the text of my presentation at the GORE Workshop held at Beyond Canon (Universität Regensburg), 2–3 December 2024. I have to confess that I’m not particularly comfortable talking about...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 5: December 2024
December was heavy with work (three presentations) and somewhat light on travelling (only one trip out of the city). Mind you, that’s all because we were in Regensburg for only a couple of weeks before...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 6: January 2025
At the end of last month’s account of our post-Christmas vacation in Portugal, we were about to board a bus to Seville on New Year’s Day. After our previous two attempts to book transport were...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 7: February 2025
The days are short now in Regensburg, and there is less activity on the streets. The only festivity to break up the routine is the eating of Krapfen (donuts) to celebrate Karneval or Fasching. The...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 8: March 2025
This month was bookended by two concerts, one in Munich and the other in Glasgow. I don’t normally mention music here but I am not only a scholar and a traveller, I am also a struggling musician—that...
View ArticleMy Regensburg Year Part 9: April 2025
For most of this month we stayed close to home, satisfying our wanderlust with some small bus trips to nearby Kallmünz and Donaustauf. The two towns are quite similar: they are built around an...
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