FROM THE BIBLIOBLOGOSPHERE:
The Bible and Culture: Latinisms, Western Diction, and the Provenance of Mark’s Gospel. As regular readers know, I have some reservations about Casey's work on the Aramaic background of the Gospels, but I accept that there is some level of Semitic interference in the Greek of Mark.
The Bible and Culture: Reading and Writing in Herodian Israel– Was Jesus an Illiterate Peasant? Part One.
Exploring Our Matrix: It’s Finally Here: The AAR/SBL App for iPhone/iPad! I've downloaded it onto my iPod Touch. It looks very useful.
Exploring Our Matrix: Biblioblog Top 50 for October 2011.
Alin Suciu continues to uncover Coptic fragments of New Testament Apocrypha: Two Other Scraps from a Parchment Leaf Containing the Apocryphal Acts of John in Coptic; Lost and Found: Two Fragments of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Coptic.