MORE ON CONSENSUS: Ken Ristau at Anduril weighs in with "Bibliobloggers debate the meaning of consensus." He corrects a typo in my previous post (thanks, Ken) and dowdifies Mark Goodacre. As for his statement, "There is a general consensus among experts and non-experts that beer impairs judgment," if that's true, then judging by its annual conference, the British New Testament Society is in big trouble. And the Society of Biblical Literature isn't in great shape either.

UPDATE (16 July): Christopher Heard weighs in over at Higgaion.

UPDATE (18 July): a member of the British New Testament Society e-mails to point out that a reference to whiskey would be appropriate as well. Indeed.