but wait! . . . there's more! . . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:19 PM

Not only was there a fourth century icon of the apostle Paul unveiled, but the pope also has announced that radiocarbon dating of bone fragm...

speaking of Paul . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:34 PM

ROME ( Reuters ) - Vatican archaeologists using laser technology have discovered what they believe is the oldest image in existence of S...

a refutation deferred?

Posted by Quixie at 9:29 AM

I have lately become fascinated by the Tübingen School of historical criticism and by its inevitable derivate, the Dutch Radical school. I p...

quote of the day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 7:27 AM

Science is the poetry of reality. Richard Dawkins

the Tübingen School and the Dutch Radicals online . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:56 AM

After finishing Conzelmann, I started reading up on the Tübingen School and the subsequent Dutch Radicals that took the former's ideas t...

momma done took his kodachrome away . . .

Posted by Quixie at 4:57 PM

Making up approximately 1% of sales recently, the Kodak company is finally putting to rest what was once a popular flagship product for the ...

quote of the day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 3:27 PM

"Poetry's no place for a heart that's a whore ... " Martha Wainwright

open question for NT scholars #4 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:47 AM

I've been enjoying reading Hans Conzelmann's book on primitive Christianity. About fifty pages into it, a passing comment of his set...

Todd Rundgren on where music is heading . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:55 AM

His approach is one of the three models outlined in a great WGBH Forum lecture and in a previous FORA post . A good synopsis of the history...

bits of Doc's journals . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:56 AM

  After posting an anecdote involving Phil Spector and Doc Pomus, I came across Pomus' journals. A few gleanings from his peculiar stree...

Jive history . . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:34 AM

Over at the wonderful Internet Archives there is a page devoted to a series of thirteen lectures by one Tom Nelson on the history of Chris...

cemí #2 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:32 PM

. This one's more rustic. Ó .

Phil Spector on murder in 1960 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 4:41 PM

I came across the text of the speech that Phil Spector delivered on the occasion of the induction of Doc Pomus into the Rock and Roll Hall o...

weiner showdown . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:19 PM

-VS- I went fishing at Tempe Town Lake at sunset with Rob W. We each brought along some hot dogs with which to bait catfish. We joked about ...

quote of the day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:57 AM

  "T he music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die l...